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[Josh Strawbridge <holyknightjoshua@xxxxxxxxx>]

i use gimp fairly often and i've run into the focus problem... if one of
gimps windows that isn't the image window that normally had the app menu on
it is in focus then the gimp app menu won't show up.  it acts as if the
only gimp window is the one that would normally hold the app menu.
luckily for me that even though i use gimp fairly often i don't use it for
much other than small edits at the end of a digital painting workflow.

gimp does have a lot of menus. i could understand how a smaller monitor
without a higher resolution would not have enough space for everything in
the global menu when the panel indicators are also using the same space.

i could also understand how on those monitors that it would get a bit
crowded when trying to maximize your image editing space and since the
tools box is usually kept on the left side it would be easy to end up with
a box of a lot of small tool buttons right along the left edge of the
screen which would cause the same problems as the buttons of web browsers
being right there by the left edge of the screen.  inkscape would have the
same launcher interference problems if maximized because it's got tools
along the left side.

the 17 inch monitors seem to be a bad fit but there should probably be
something done about that as there are people and places using older
monitors that don't have larger resolutions.  i was still using a 19" CRT
until this past august.

until there's an actual fix there's an unofficial compiz plugin to let you
move your launcher to the bottom.  it makes the dash look a bit busted if
it isn't maximized but if you'd rather have it at the bottom as a work
around
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/how-to-move-unity-launcher-to-bottom-of.html
might
be worth checking out.
-- 
Josh Strawbridge