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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/02/12 11:25, supernova wrote:
> Hi to all. Menus are going to disappear in all application. Probably
> in the future there will be no menu, but maybe something like HUD for
> all OS. What is so the future of globalmenu? It is very important now,
> expecially for small screens...but in a couple of year?
>
> Supernova
I can't see it going completely. The HUD doesn't replace menus at all, 
it isn't browseable, you can't discover the functionality of an 
application using the HUD. I can see the global menu being redesigned so 
that it looks stylistically like the dash/hud with the translucent 
overlay and make it look more like it is attached to the launcher than a 
distinct top panel, but I don't think the HUD replaces menus, it just 
enhances them. On a technical level the HUD would completely fail to do 
anything if the application didn't have a menu as the HUD would have no 
data to work with.

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