The Future of the Menu: Say Hello to Ubuntu’s Upcoming Head-Up Display [Video]

This will speed up common operations by sooooo much… I can’t wait to give the HUD a try!

This is the HUD. It’s a way for you to express your intent and have the application respond appropriately. We think of it as “beyond interface”, it’s the “intenterface”. This concept of “intent-driven interface” has been a primary theme of our work in the Unity shell, with dash search as a first class experience pioneered in Unity. Now we are bringing the same vision to the application, in a way which is completely compatible with existing applications and menus.

[Mark Shuttleworth]