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[anthropornis <anthropornis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy, it's been asked numerous times because it is what users want and 
what Canonical ignores. That ~should~ tell you something.

And yes, this kind of thing is far more visible than whatever else 
Canonical employees and Ubuntu volunteers are working on right now. 
Whatever the merits of everything else, this is the outer packaging. 
That's just the way it is.



On 08/28/2011 09:29 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 28 August 2011 21:10, matt<m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > I think that for new users having the menus hidden until mouse over by
> > default is not necessarily a preferential option. Could the menus be
> > shown by default (window title in the middle), with the option to change
> > back to the current behaviour?
> >
> > Also, an option (this time not default) to place the menus in the
> > title-bar of the application would be nice. For restored windows the
> > window title would then be right aligned.
> This general question has been asked numerous times and the answer has
> been WONTFIX. The reason is that window titles can often be very long
> and not everyone has a large screen like you do. Personally I have a
> 1280x800 screen but we also want to support 1024x600 screens.
>
> Try uninstalling indicator-appmenu* if you want traditional always
> visible menus.
>
> Jeremy Bicha
>
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