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::'''Motivation:''' innovating the user experience to allow non-technical users to do things in humane ways that they hadn't considered before. | ::'''Motivation:''' innovating the user experience to allow non-technical users to do things in humane ways that they hadn't considered before. | ||
* Taking the Ubiquity context menu from tech-demo quality to production quality. For the majority users who didn't grow up on command lines, the context menu is likely to be the more widely used interface, but development on it has lagged far behind. The context menu needs: | |||
:* Fewer and better suggestions, based on analysis of the possible meanings of the selection. | |||
:* Ranking of suggestions in a way that makes the user's most often-used commands easy to find (without causing confusion by frequently re-ordering the list). | |||
:* A way to understand what the result of choosing a command will be -- something like the preview feature of the command-line UI. | |||
* Making Ubiquity's UI "pluggable", so that different Firefox extensions or command scripts can easily access its functionality; this can help allow developers and/or designers to innovate the UI in new directions, e.g. by: | * Making Ubiquity's UI "pluggable", so that different Firefox extensions or command scripts can easily access its functionality; this can help allow developers and/or designers to innovate the UI in new directions, e.g. by: | ||