Ubuntu
indicator-appmenu package

hud does not show application specific functions

Bug #989001 reported by Magnetizer on 2012-04-26

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	indicator-appmenu (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Dear all,

I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 for one month now and today I decided to give the heads-up display a chance.

The stange thing is that the suggestions do not correspond with the application that has focus.

For instance if I open Terminal and type "open" to open a new tab, I get the suggestion to open my Dropbox folder.

I do not see the relevance of this suggestion at all.

Do I have to train the HUD and how could I do that?
Or is there a possibility to reset what the HUD has already learned?
Or perhaps it is just a bug in the software?

I would not know right now, but have to say it is completely useless on my machine.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Tommy Holm Hansen (tommy-holm-hansen) wrote on 2012-05-08:

showing HUD not working Edit (366.7 KiB, image/png)

Same problem. Also the top icon on the left changes to other applications while typing. See attachment. I started out in GIMP but it changed to some icon I'm not even sure what is.

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gabriel smith (gabriel-smith01) wrote on 2012-05-17:

I'm having this issue as well.

A bit more specific, I have the Dropbox application installed, when I use HUD, I get the options from the current application, but also from the Dropbox system status as well.

To recreate:
1) Open any application (ex: Firefox)
2) Open HUD (press Alt button)
3) Begin typing 'Dropbox' - Firefox has no option dropbox
4) Observe HUD results: it will return available options from the Dropbox system status icon

Unsure if this is due to HUD or the Dropbox app - I will report this issue to Dropbox as well

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Magnetizer (magnetizer) wrote on 2012-05-17:

Thanks Gabriel for your confirmation.

But in your case it could be feature instead of a bug.

To make sure, people do not get me wrong:

In my case I will not get the application specific menu items at all.

I only get the menu items of totally unrelated applications (mostly dropbox or systems settings).

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John Burkhart (jfburkhart) wrote on 2012-05-24:

I think HUD is a great concept, but I have the same problem that it too quickly provides non focused-application results. Is there a way to force it to only return results from the focused application?

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Magnetizer (magnetizer) wrote on 2012-06-30:

Ok, I found the problem: HUD only works if you make use of the global menu.

As I did not like the global menu on my 24 inch screen, I removed the package. That also leaves HUD inoperable as the commands for HUD are read from the global menu (https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/975274).

But perhaps a solution is on it's way:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/682788

I will retry it later.