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[Mark Curtis <merkinman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

While Unity is different than GNOME Shell, it is still GNOME.
Look at what the future of GNOME applications could be and maybe that will be the future of the global menu in the long run.

http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/a-new-approach-to-gnome-application-design/


> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:10:23 +0000
> From: alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Unity-design] future of globalmenu
> 
> On 13/02/12 12:59, supernova wrote:
> >> Let's focus on HUD innovation, leaving the menu as a backstop till we have
> >> great solutions for *both* aspects of the menu; exploration/discovery, and
> >> command invocation.
> > this is important. HUD has potential, just ad the dash. They are the
> > real tutor of any Ubuntu user. Maybe in the future HUD will understand
> > sound commands?!
> >
> > Supernova
> >
> yeah, it could do, fairly easily I think, the menu fragments need to be 
> reformed into a jsgf grammar and then passed to pocketsphinx to listen 
> for. Continuous speech recognition is still some way off, but if there 
> is a grammar that it is listening for (i.e. it matches against a limited 
> vocabulary rather than the entire English language) then it can be 
> really quite good. The menu data that the HUD accesses appears to be 
> quite a good corpus of stuff to feed into a vocabulary file. I think now 
> I know a bit about dbus introspection that the menu data is in there 
> somewhere, I am fairly sure all the bits exist today and just need 
> plumbing together.
> 
> Alan.
> 
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