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The only thing I liked about unity was the HUD that allowed you to search through application menus by typing the setting you were looking for. Do you know if t

The only thing I liked about unity was the HUD that allowed you to search through application menus by typing the setting you were looking for. Do you know if there’s anything offering that functionality for Gnome3?

ekiwi 6y ago
If you hit the Windows key on Gnome 3, you can type the name of a program, file or system setting and it will generally find it.
- llarsson 6y ago
  That's not it. Unity let you find at you typed to get to menu options. So you did not have to care whether the item you wanted was under File, Edit, or whatever, you could just start typing "preferences" and it would let you find it and go to it with the keyboard. That was pretty good, actually.
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  - christophilus 6y ago
    That works in Gnome for os level items, but not for application level items.
    - hda2 6y ago
      Again, that's not what is being asked.
  - veddox 6y ago
    That is the single feature I miss the most about Unity. Gnome's prodigal attitude to screen real estate is annoying (though the Ubuntu version is somewhat better), but being able to search menus makes a real usability difference. I miss it every time I use InkScape or QGIS or similar programs with five layers of voluminous menus...
  - Maken 6y ago
    That went away with global menu, I'm afraid. In vanilla gnome every app handles it own menu however it likes, so this kind of integration is not possible. For all its flaws, Unity really tried to offer an unified desktop experience.
aidenn0 6y ago
This is my biggest missing feature from the Mac. Do any of the major GUI toolkits for linux support this?
- Tsiklon 6y ago
  MacOS sort of supports it - the help menu for each app has a search box CMD+Shift+/ (or CMD+? If you prefer to think of it like that) will open it up. Each of the menu bar options should be searchable, and the search box will open the requisite menu to the correct branch/leaf and highlight it for you.
  - mjcohen 6y ago
    I didn't know that. Thanks.
  - aidenn0 6y ago
    Sorry if I wasn't clear. I know the Mac has it, I was asking if there is a similar feature on linux.
    - Tsiklon 6y ago
      Whoops my mistake, I realise now that I misread you completely, sorry about that.
- ktpsns 6y ago
  There is for instance http://afiestas.org/appmenu-runner-meet-the-kde-hud/ http://afiestas.org/appmenu-runner-meet-the-kde-hud/ , and I bet there are similar tools for Gnome. However, from what I heard of Unity, it seems to be a hell of a work to keep/maintain it running for all kind of programs (regarding the different UI toolkits).
  - aidenn0 6y ago
    Right. If KDE or Gnome were to automatically generate searchable actions as part of the toolkit, that would be enough to get me behind one of them as a toolkit.
type0 6y ago
Not for GNOME 3 but MATE has a Heads-Up Display https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud
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aembleton 6y ago
https://github.com/hardpixel/gnome-hud https://github.com/hardpixel/gnome-hud

ekiwi 6y ago

If you hit the Windows key on Gnome 3, you can type the name of a program, file or system setting and it will generally find it.

llarsson 6y ago
That's not it. Unity let you find at you typed to get to menu options. So you did not have to care whether the item you wanted was under File, Edit, or whatever, you could just start typing "preferences" and it would let you find it and go to it with the keyboard. That was pretty good, actually.
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- christophilus 6y ago
  That works in Gnome for os level items, but not for application level items.
  - hda2 6y ago
    Again, that's not what is being asked.
- veddox 6y ago
  That is the single feature I miss the most about Unity. Gnome's prodigal attitude to screen real estate is annoying (though the Ubuntu version is somewhat better), but being able to search menus makes a real usability difference. I miss it every time I use InkScape or QGIS or similar programs with five layers of voluminous menus...
- Maken 6y ago
  That went away with global menu, I'm afraid. In vanilla gnome every app handles it own menu however it likes, so this kind of integration is not possible. For all its flaws, Unity really tried to offer an unified desktop experience.

aidenn0 6y ago

This is my biggest missing feature from the Mac. Do any of the major GUI toolkits for linux support this?

Tsiklon 6y ago
MacOS sort of supports it - the help menu for each app has a search box CMD+Shift+/ (or CMD+? If you prefer to think of it like that) will open it up. Each of the menu bar options should be searchable, and the search box will open the requisite menu to the correct branch/leaf and highlight it for you.
- mjcohen 6y ago
  I didn't know that. Thanks.
- aidenn0 6y ago
  Sorry if I wasn't clear. I know the Mac has it, I was asking if there is a similar feature on linux.
  - Tsiklon 6y ago
    Whoops my mistake, I realise now that I misread you completely, sorry about that.
ktpsns 6y ago
There is for instance http://afiestas.org/appmenu-runner-meet-the-kde-hud/ http://afiestas.org/appmenu-runner-meet-the-kde-hud/ , and I bet there are similar tools for Gnome. However, from what I heard of Unity, it seems to be a hell of a work to keep/maintain it running for all kind of programs (regarding the different UI toolkits).
- aidenn0 6y ago
  Right. If KDE or Gnome were to automatically generate searchable actions as part of the toolkit, that would be enough to get me behind one of them as a toolkit.

type0 6y ago

Not for GNOME 3 but MATE has a Heads-Up Display https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud

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aembleton 6y ago

https://github.com/hardpixel/gnome-hud https://github.com/hardpixel/gnome-hud