Ubuntu 12.04 LTS removing unity and installing GNOME

[Liam Proven]

On 5 June 2012 13:35, Ryan Gauger <rtgkid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I can answer one of your thoughts on this... Moving the app menus to the top
> panel was done to provide more space for the app. This is part of what
> creates a distraction-free area, especially for maximised apps. It may not
> look like it, but if you really think about it, hiding the app menu by
> default helps to create more space. We could not fit the menu on the same
> panel as the title, window control buttons, and indicator applets

Odd, since Apple managed to... :¬)

I think I do understand the rationale but I too really don't think the
auto-hiding menus was a good idea.

I would suggest moving things like this into ticky-boxes in the
Appearance preference pane/control panel applet:

* global menu bar versus menus in windows
* menu bar revealed on mouseover / menus permanently visible
* narrow scrollbars + autohiding thumbs / standard scrollbars
* Unity launcher: left / bottom / right

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