Mark Shuttleworth: Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.

What: 
   The introduction of the newest Ubuntu UI Navigation/ OS feature

 Thoughts:
    This seems like the first true innovation in desktop UI design in a very long time. Although it certainly draws on elements of Quicksilver and many other task launchers, it's the first to allow users to dig into sub menu's of applications. This is the future of the OS and will be ripped off by every other OS. I didn't hear any mentions of a particular key that would drop someone into the HUD, but I would bet it will be the windows or cmd key.

Skip about half way down the post to see a video showing the power of the solution.  

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