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[Leonardo Donelli <learts92@xxxxxxxxx>]

Selection bias. This is a bug report in which the global menu functionality on unmaximized windows is reported as a bug. Of course the vast majority of people on this page are against this feature. So I'll speak in favor of it.
Personally i love global menu (both on maximized and unmaximized windows) and it's *the* feature that keeps Ubuntu my OS of choice. Since when I got used to it "no global menu" -> "not an options as personal OS " (and my screen is 1600x900, for those saying that if the screen is > 1280x1024, than global menu is bad)
For those talking about auto-hiding and 'easy discovery of menu options': there's HUD for that now. It's amazing. The concept behind it has been proved successful in the past, on desktops: dash/launchers vs desktop icons, web search engines vs web directories.
Example: I wonder if GIMP has a function for lens flare. With HUD i press alt and type 'flare'. With the menu, i explore lists and sublists of menus categories until I find it (assuming I don't miss it)- The only case when the normal menus are better is when I want to just 'explore' the options, without looking for anything in particular ("Let's see if there is something cool"), How many times does that happens? 1 per application per lifetime? Well, for that time you can do the enormous effort of moving the mouse a little higher.
A lot of people here lamenting Unity sounds a lot like those windows users that try some distro and say "Where is the start button? What, there isn't one?! This OS is stupid!".

That being said, unless it's difficult to implement (I doubt it) I don't
see why not give the users the option to disable it.

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