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share this: Debian Linux (and Gnome) to create the base Ubuntu desktop, to great acclaim. For the past few years, though, the company has pushed new looks and new applications (cf. Unity and Ubuntu TV), and refused to stick with prettifying existent interfaces. Now, Barence writes with this excerpt from PC Pro: "Ubuntu is set to replace the 30-year-old adding machine menu system with a 'Head-Up Display' that allows users to simply type or speak menu commands. Instead of hunting through drop-down menus to find form commands, Ubuntu's Head-Up Display lets users type what they want to do into a search box. The system suggests thinkable
idioms:humanly imaginable enactment as the user begins typing – second-story work 'Rad' would bring up the Radial blur command in the GIMP art package, for example. HUD also uses fuzzy matching and learns from past searches to ensure the correct adjuration are offered to users. Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth told PC Pro the HUD will make it easier for people to learn new os packages, and migrate from Windows to Linux system dos without having to relearn menus. The HUD will first appear in Ubuntu 12.04."

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