Bug 371181

Summary: Add Unity-like HUD into KDE
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: kentallenduke <kentallenduke>
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: bhush94, joaopauloalbu, kde, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.8.2   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.pcworld.com/article/248665/ubuntu_linuxs_new_hud_interface_will_do_away_with_menus.html
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Description kentallenduke 2016-10-18 18:45:05 UTC 
To quote from the URL:

"Called 'HUD,' or 'Head-Up Display,' the new interface is designed to recognize users' intent in interacting with the desktop rather than forcing them to navigate a rigid menu system to get things done."




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press hotkey to start the HUD
2. The user types whatever they want from the application.
3. Wait for the HUD to return results.

Actual Results:  
Feature isn't implemented

Expected Results:  
The HUD outputs the menu the user wants along with suggestions, saving time from looking into the application menus.

The Unity HUD feature in Ubuntu is quite useful. I often get lost in the menus quite often, so searching up the option I need (for example, in Libreoffice, I always forget where the option to include headers in the document is in the menu). I was thinking maybe this could be integrated into the “Search” plasmoid, but it’ll be nice however way.
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2016-10-19 10:09:12 UTC 
Change your application launcher to "Application Dashboard"
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-10-19 10:12:02 UTC 
The Unity HUD actually searches through the app menu (like the AppMenu runner). It will be implemented in one form or another once I figure out the global menu stuff. (I even have a working prototype)
Comment 3 João Paulo 2020-03-27 12:34:03 UTC 
Created attachment 127042 [details]
How looks like

https://youtu.be/9lGVy6GRbOc?t=139