No tab completion for HUD.

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

The HUD doesn't currently support tab completion. It should. I have another real life reason for it, but it'll take too long to explain, so I'll use a simple example which should do the trick.

Let's say you have two email clients installed, Thunderbird and Evolution. Pretend both adds an entry to the message menu called "Compose message". Now, since the HUD searches the indicators as well, you can now press Alt and write "compose". But then you'll need to use the arrow keys to navigate. To the right client. It would be better if I could either use abbreviations or tab completion, so that it would become "evo com" or "evo<tab>com<tab".

There are many examples of those cases. Lots of indicators can have an entry containing "Show" for instance. It would be nice to be able to access the right one very quickly, such as "tra show" to show Transmission. Show, of course, is often used in the focused application as well, meaning that I would often have to type "Transmission show" as it currently stands.

Both would be nice, but tab completion is a must.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.4.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,compiztoolbox,regex,imgpng,place,animation,expo,grid,mousepoll,session,snap,vpswitch,wall,workarounds,obs,resize,gnomecompat,move,fade,scale,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Sun Feb 26 19:29:05 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120125)
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-17 (8 days ago)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

unity-design mailing list for that? make sure to use the word HUD in the title.

[Aaron Gerber (agerber85)]

This would also be especially helpful for commands common to a lot of programs, such as "preferences", "quit", etc.