Heads Up Display

[Bhaavan Merchant <bhaavanmerchant gmail com>]

Hello,
I am Bhaavan Merchant, and I have just joined this group. I 
have really liked the Gnome Shell UI and how gnome has become much more 
user friendly from Gnome3. Also, I have tried other environments like 
KDE and Unity but did not find them as convenient as Gnome.

However, one feature in Unity 5.4 has impressed me. The HUD (Heads Up Display) ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_WW-DHqR3c
 ) which they have implemented, provides an easy accessible way to 
navigate through the menu system. The menu system, has been around since
 beginning of GUIs and hasnt really changed with times. IMO, it is 
archaic and also not consistent across different programs. IMO, HUD 
provides a good work around for this making menus usable again 
especially for programs like the Gimp, Inkscape, Blender etc. which have
 multi-level menu system.

Ofcourse we cannot remove the traditional menu system, since it is 
more or less a necessity in most applications. However, we could have 
HUD launch (perhaps on Alt keypress trigger), and make searching through
 menus an easier task.

I have prepared a mockup for this ( http://i.imgur.com/3rZm8.png
 ), and would really love to hear your feedback and suggestions on this.
 If the response is positive, I would love to work on this project, and 
begin implementing this on gnome perhaps by gnome 3.6. Excuse my gimp 
skills, because they are elementary.

Flow:
1) Normal Application is launched, and clicking its name on the top bar launches a traditional menu.
2)
 However when Alt is pressed, the traditional menu is replaced with an 
HUD menu instance, and the keyboard focus changes to the textbox in the 
HUD menu.
3) As one types, a fuzzy logic comparison is applied to match to the 
nearest available menu options and the result is populated in the menu.

Thank you,

Bhaavan

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Hello,

The code in file Not_working_code.c , after compile the line
" strcat("FDKCheckScreenName", getValFromConfig("screennumber"))", gives
following error
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not_working_code.c: In function ?dispInit?:
Not_working_code.c:21: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of
built-in function ?strcat?
Not_working_code.c:21: error: ?FDKCheckScreenName? undeclared (first use in
this function)
Not_working_code.c:21: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only
once
Not_working_code.c:21: error: for each function it appears in.)
Not_working_code.c:21: warning: passing argument 2 of ?strcat? makes
pointer from integer without a cast
Not_working_code.c:21: note: expected ?const char *? but argument is of
type ?int?
----------------------------------------------------------

After blocking that line compiled successfully with command "gcc
Not_working_code.c   `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` `pkg-config --libs
gtk+-2.0`"  Successfully compiled and after running gives following msg:

"Initializing the display library"

Is this your expected output? I did not get any response of thread. As
expected it shd open a window. Pls confirm


regards
Leena

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:30 PM, venkat <venkat s vortexindia co in> wrote:

> Now we are facing a peculiar problem while trying to build our application
> with GTK.
>
> When we try to build application with threads we see that its objects are
> not accessible.
> But, the same code when we try without threads we see that we are able to
> access the objects
>
> also attached the sample codes for the same
>
> Hope you can bring us some light in solving
>
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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:15:12 +0530
From: venkat <venkat s vortexindia co in>
To: Leena Chourey <leenagour gmail com>
Cc: reddygb <reddygb vortexindia co in>,
       gnome-accessibility-list gnome org,     Deepthikka K
       <deepthikka k vortexindia co in>
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       application
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Dear Leena


thanks for your efforts..

the below line can be commented in the code

" strcat("FDKCheckScreenName", getValFromConfig("screennumber"))", gives
following error

the expected result is that it should open a window from a thread.





On 3/9/2012 11:14 AM, Leena Chourey wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The code in file Not_working_code.c , after compile the line
> " strcat("FDKCheckScreenName", getValFromConfig("screennumber"))",
> gives following error
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Not_working_code.c: In function ?dispInit?:
> Not_working_code.c:21: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of
> built-in function ?strcat?
> Not_working_code.c:21: error: ?FDKCheckScreenName? undeclared (first
> use in this function)
> Not_working_code.c:21: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported
> only once
> Not_working_code.c:21: error: for each function it appears in.)
> Not_working_code.c:21: warning: passing argument 2 of ?strcat? makes
> pointer from integer without a cast
> Not_working_code.c:21: note: expected ?const char *? but argument is
> of type ?int?
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> After blocking that line compiled successfully with command "gcc
> Not_working_code.c   `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0` `pkg-config --libs
> gtk+-2.0`"  Successfully compiled and after running gives following msg:
>
> "Initializing the display library"
>
> Is this your expected output? I did not get any response of thread. As
> expected it shd open a window. Pls confirm
>
>
> regards
> Leena
>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:30 PM, venkat <venkat s vortexindia co in
> <mailto:venkat s vortexindia co in>> wrote:
>
>     Now we are facing a peculiar problem while trying to build our
>     application with GTK.
>
>     When we try to build application with threads we see that its
>     objects are not accessible.
>     But, the same code when we try without threads we see that we are
>     able to access the objects
>
>     also attached the sample codes for the same
>
>     Hope you can bring us some light in solving
>
>
>
>
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