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I have to say I haven't found myself using the HUD very much. When I am learning an app I usually want to have discoverability so I will search the menus lookin

by jiggy2011 14y ago

I have to say I haven't found myself using the HUD very much. When I am learning an app I usually want to have discoverability so I will search the menus looking for the stuff I need. Once I am more versed in using it I just memorize the keyboard shortcuts. Not to mention that for some apps (mainly Java etc) HUD doesn't really work at all. Not seeing much in the software centre either.

pajju 14y ago
HUD is perfect for the power users, adds a lot to productivity. Here is the HUD demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_WW-DHqR3c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_WW-DHqR3c HUD for power users - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK2lMCMsios http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK2lMCMsios
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  All of this stuff is faster with keyboard shortcuts, unless it's stuff that you only use very occasionally in which case there would be only a negligible benefit. The algorithm is also based only on text matching (presumably levenshtein distance) so typing "exit" isn't helpful if the application happens to use the word "quit". HUD would be incredible if it was as clever as Siri at NLP and could search every app installed on my system at once. So I could say stuff like "Set an alarm for 10 minutes time" or "email richard"