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[Mateusz Stachowski <682788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@Ryan Koesters: I've build today Unity and unity-control-center with
your patches on Ubuntu 14.04 both worked without problems. I had to
manually specify the files to patch unity-control-center because I
probably used wrong -p option:

patch -p1 <

To install the packages I had to remove gnome-control-center-unity
because it was in conflict with this new unity-control-center. This is
screenshot of u-c-c with always show the global menu bar option.

http://ubuntuone.com/1JH80LwIm4Su2OM6gkYK5i

I had troubles with building the current Unity for 14.04 but not because
of your patches so I used the daily build from Unity daily stack
preparation PPA.

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-unity/+archive/daily-build

Your patch applied successfully but there were some offsets. Packages
for Unity build without problems. When I installed new unity and
libunity-core packages I had the menubar-always-visible option in dconf
Editor.

http://ubuntuone.com/52zSHb6qp1Sd4zMj4XCefh

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Title:
  Improve Unity Global Menu

Status in Ayatana Design:
  Fix Committed
Status in Compiz:
  Triaged
Status in Unity:
  Confirmed
Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “unity-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  ===+++ _____________________ ! ALL USERS ! _____________________ +++===
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  =========
  Global menu in general (not only in Unity) is very unergonomic on large screens (see the attached screenshot) because if you have a small window somewhere near the low right corner you have to move the cursor all the way up to to panel to reach the menu. I understand why the global menu was used for the netbook edition (it saves space and most windows are maximized), but since Unity is intended to be for the desktop edition there should be an option to switch to the traditional position of the app menu. It would be welcomed by many desktop users. Please try to find a solution for it that works.

  A commonly suggested solution is:
   [ ] Global Menu on
   [ ] Global Menu off
   [ ] Global Menu only for maximized windows
  The default is usually suggested as either the first (on) or last (on only for maximized windows).

  -------------------------------------
  Desired change:

  Implement the 'Enhanced Menu' project for 12.10.  This project will
  address the issue described in this bug and also issues described in
  the duplicates of this bus.  Note this is the 'official' bug that
  tracks the implementation of this project.

  The following options will be added to 'System Settings/Appearance':

  -------
  Menus
  Location:    Global/Local
  Visibility:  Hidden/Always displayed
  -------

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