[corkybeta]

Unity 7 HUD could search the menubar of any application. I was quite good at guessing the name of the function I wanted, far better than I was at finding it in menus. It looks like MATE, XFCE and i3 still have this.

https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud

https://jamcnaughton.com/2015/10/19/hud-for-xubuntu/#jp-caro...

[flas9sd]

The global menu top-bar and the HUD application search was what I missed most when I went with the flow and settled in GNOME >36ish.

Here some more screenshots for the uninitiated (with search used on GIMP in the first two screenshots): https://imgur.com/a/5XlgTO3

And the official docs: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/HUD