disable top panel application-window menu

[Liam Proven]

On 12 March 2012 19:46, M.R. <makrober at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was quite surprised to discover that by default Ubuntu 12.04
> places the application window menu on the top panel. ("mac-like",
> I suppose?). This makes it extremely difficult to work with a
> number of active applications at the same time.

Macs have been like that since 1984. I'm guessing you've not got any
Mac experience? :¬)

You get used to it after a while. It's easier to hit a fixed menu bar
(q.v. Fitt's Law) and it saves a fair amount of screen space on small
monitors, such as netbooks, or even modern low-end cheap laptops, with
wide but shallow screens - like my MSI CR-620 which is a 1366×768
widescreen.

> I searched in vain for a method to disable this "feature"; is
> there any?

There were for previous Unity releases. I don't know if those fixes
will work in Precise, though. I see someone else has given you a
pointer to this.


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