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I'm sure if it's only the work of the Ubuntu team, but they added GTK-holistic autocompletion for menus.

After seeing office workers cry everytime a menu layout changed, I'd be very interested in seeing them having fuzzy search like this.

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That was an option i used to love when i was an OS X user, that i could avoid drilling into infinite menus by simply hitting some combination (it escapes me now) to get the little search box in the Help menu to pop up. It would automatically do a search among all the menu entries of the application. It's a blessing that i don't use much GUI-heavy stuff any more these days, but that certainly felt like a life-saver at the time.

This is what it looks like, in case my description is too fuzzy: https://www.drupal.org/files/mac-osx-help.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_(computing)#Reaction

The Ribbon backfire is pretty well known, but fuzzy search is completely orthogonal to "legacy" UX. You don't need to remove or change anything to give access to a real-time filter of all the menu "namespace".

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EDIT: It seems "agumonkey" just downvoted me, so here's what I managed to find: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/HUD

He can't downvote you because your post is a direct child of his.

Thanks, didn't know. So unless he has a few sock accounts, is HUD common knowledge among Unity users and that's why I'm being downvoted, or is it just downvote frenzy?

HUD was a big announcement back then. I don't know how many people that use Unity know about it now, but it is not that esoteric.

You are downvoted because of how your comment sounds and the false "the comment will be removed".

The parent failed to add a link, so I did. That's why it's staying up.

The way it sounds maybe partially, but I'm going to go with downvote frenzy for the rest.

Never mind, an upvote frienzy around another comment of mine is keeping me afloat.

What do you mean with "staying up"? It is not like you control what is staying up, nor that this is a site where stuff is deleted according to that criteria. That is why your comment is sounding that strange, which explains the downvotes. Has nothing to do with downvote frenzy.

Enough OT for me.

The "staying up" and "will be removed" were both in reference to paxcoder's own original comment in this thread. It appears that some people read it as referring to the parent; perhaps "this comment" would have been better written as "my comment".

It's awkward, until your comment I sincerely had no other interpretation but the 'aggressive' one. And I reread the whole thing thrice because I was utterly confused why someone would 'appear' so commanding. Now it makes a lot of sense.

Thanks for jumping in, you got me. I reckon the reason for downvotes is that others didn't then. Ambiguity didn't occur to me until I've read your comment.

Right, it was a big announcement, but I just expected the idea to catch like fire everywhere. It was also part of a trend of fuzzy match now featured in many text editors, hence my little prediction, because personally I find it one of the most ergonomic UX.

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