The command search dialog / HUD, now available from the Help menu, is apparently not very discoverable, in the sense that few people - probably - use it. I was thinking... in the tabbed UI, we have quite a bit of unused real-estate beyond the set of tab headers. Perhaps we could place a command search box, there? In addition to the drop-down results, it could also temporarily disable non-matching widgets on the ribbon and emphasize somehow those that do match; potentially even switching ribbon tabs. I'm not sure this is a good idea, but was wondering how others would feel about this.
But for a Find toolbar flavored UI, see bug 148967 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 142931 ***
The HUD search looks for commands in the main menu. The Tabbed UI does not show it, at least not by default.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > The HUD search looks for commands in the main menu. The Tabbed UI does not > show it, at least not by default. Well, that's why I filed an enhancement request...
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3) > (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2) > > The HUD search looks for commands in the main menu. The Tabbed UI does not > > show it, at least not by default. > > Well, that's why I filed an enhancement request... IIRC, thus far none of the assemblages for the Notebook bar are parsed for search. That is additional dev effort needed for the HUD feature (see your bug 150814).
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #4) > IIRC, thus far none of the assemblages for the Notebook bar are parsed for > search. That is additional dev effort needed for the HUD feature (see your > bug 150814). Yes, indeed, thanks; but there are actually two "efforts" relevant here: Adding support for searching for non-menu items; and - adding support for notbebookbar items becoming faded/disabled or emphasized while search is going on.