Tongue in cheek.
Should Ubuntu announcements seem like a comedy show? As far as HUD goes, I like the idea. I just find the idea of it replacing menus completely to be bonkers mad.
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I take it that you don’t like HUD.
Actually I like it. It just should never replace existing menu functionality which already keeps way out of the way.
Agreed. I take good laugh out too, it´s so bad that seens like a joke man.
Thank God! I thought I was the only one who felt that way….
Incidentally I’ve been contemplating a distro switch too for some reason. Strange….
Martin,
If they can get HUD to the point where it can display an alternative way to organize traditional menu contents…in an explorable fashion… you might find application developers changing how they construct traditional menus items to be more HUD relevant. It’s actually quite interesting to think about.
The space is very interesting, and I think multiple groups are thinking along the same lines as HUD. I don’t think HUD is the final implementation. But I do think HUD is going to push the conversation forward.
What I think in the end what we are going to end up with is a concept for application functionality organization that is more abstracted than the traditional menu item allows for now. Each functional element having a richer metadata tag collection associated with it that application developers can choose to fill in. Instead of encoding organization in the UI, the relational organization among functional elements will be contained in this metadata tagging. With that richer metadata, multiple UI views and organizations of the same functional elements can be designed and used in different context or side by side.
-jef
Perhaps they should upgrade the name as well to Dumbuntu. Did Mark plan for the 12.04 (April 2012) release to sink like the Titanic did 100 years earlier (April 1912). Seriously….. first moving the buttons order and location, then Unity, now HUD?
Ubuntu is making Windows look good again.
After Lucid isn’t supported anymore in April 2013, I’m done with Ubuntu unless someone makes a version of it which runs like and looks like Lucid. (A nice Gnome 2 UI with functionality on top of Gnome 3) would be good for starters.) Otherwise, off to LXDE, XFCE-land I go. ( Debian just made an LXDE edition)
I agree with you. HUD sucks. It’s requiring more interaction with the desktop than is necessary. I can’t just sit back and relax, go to the menu, and do something. Instead I have to be ready to type, whenever I need something. A two hand process.
Some may say that sounds lazy, but when you do work on a computer for hours, daily, it matters.
Jef – I agree, as the blog entry says this is more tongue in cheek than a real rag on HUD. There’s some inside jokes too which I don’t know if you could get
.
So for the meta data system and the upgrade to improve functional elements, I think we could have something interesting. But the thing about systems like this is that we can’t predict how it’ll end up being used and what exactly it’ll replace in what manner.
So the funny part is the idea that we can say for certainty that it _will_ replace menus and it will be better… I think I need more data or it’s just assumptions.
Martin,
I predict that the HUD will be replaced by a cloud-capable gopher server interface to remotely control inkscape instances in the cloud.
-jef
Jef – That’s syntactically using your synergy.
Ubuntu needs the LCARS UI…and sharks with lasers.
lol i used to think i was on the low rung when i came to linux with all these folks so much more advanced than me.. i now realize i must be a genius.. i run unity xfce and debian and gosh darn it, i survive.. what is with all the inbread users? i love hacking unity, probably the most hackable interface around, my 65 year old mother likes the quicklists and im installing the alpha 12.04 just to play with the HUD which is a fantastic idea.. oh an by the way, for all the knee-jerk reactionists out there, the menu isnt going away.. there are no plans to remove the menu.. im sorry if i stole the reactionists thunder.. im sure you can still find an article on how the world will end with microsoft and secure boot.. what ever happened to thinking first, then speaking/writing ?