classicmenu

The developers implemented the HUD in Ubuntu 12.04, HUD adopted and further implemented into upcoming releases, such as Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 13.04.

Essentially, the HUD presents itself as an intelligent menu (a smart menu guesser), meaning, while having opened an application, typing certain characters (like for example cu) after hitting the keyboard's Alt key, summons in the HUD natural, commonly-used actions (such as cut); pressing the Enter key, executes the command.

ClassicMenu Indicator is a handy lightweight appindicator that brings a GNOME 2-like "old" menu in the comfort of the Unity panel, allowing 1-click access to categorized applications.

ClassicMenu Indicator has just been updated to version 0.07, adding, along with various bug fixes, new categories: Personal, Hardware, System.

The above mentioned categories act mainly as a link to System Settings, including all the of its components.

Classicmenu Indicator is a handy appindicator that allows one to quickly access applications in a traditional "old" GNOME 2 way.

Basically, Classicmenu Indicator behaves just like a regular GNOME 2 menu and features an Ubuntu logo icon for folks that are still familiar with regular system menus.

How do we install Classicmenu indicator 0.06?
Add the following official PPA (Natty, Oneiric)

ClassicMenu Indicator is an Application Indicator ("appindicator") that acts like a classic GNOME menu, useful for people who don't like Unity Dash or just want a handy way to access their apps with one click.

ClassicMenu Indicator 0.03 has just been released, adding icons to the menus (no need for tweaks, etc), an appindicator monochrome icon and new entries in the menu (making it complete).