After seeing HUD in action, he was motivated to continue his project, so he implemented this into KRunner. A while back, Alex Fiestas has implemented something very similar to HUD, Unity's new smart menu , for KDE. The initial implementation only worked for KDE applications and only if the menu was shown in the application window.

The new AppMenu Runner implementation uses the same technology as HUD, so it works with GTK and Qt applications too and Alejandro hopes it will be available in KDE Plasma Workspace 4.9 "if the Plasma teams like it".





Here's a video recorded by Alex, in which he talks about the new AppMenu Runner as well as the initial implementation: