If you’re called Beefy Miracle, you better pack a punch. And when the Fedora crew christened their next Linux desktop, that was certainly the plan.
On the menu was “over and under the bun improvements that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software.”
While Fedora 17 is certainly beefy, what's been delivered with this first and only beta is not particularly miraculous. Read more...
Canonical has unveiled HUD, which it has billed as the "menu of the future" for its next Linux desktop.
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, due in April, will feature the first release of Head Up Display, or HUD, which distro creator Mark Shuttleworth has predicted will ultimately replace menus in Unity applications.
HUD dispenses with drop-down menus with users accessing features and invoking commands through a system that combines search and natural-language auto-complete.
You type the action you require into a search field that pops out and produces options – a-la Google Instant – as you type, HUD then (hopefully) produces the option you want and you select it.
In a video demo here (beware – it downloads to your desktop), Canonical demos HUD being used with Firefox, CAD, messenger, and Ubuntu's Banshee music player. Read more...