The 10.10 Netbook version of Ubuntu is already moving in this direction. See Mark Shuttleworth's statements here:
www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/359 Most importantly, he says: By default, we’d display the contents of the title bar. When you mouse up to > the panel, or when you press the Alt key, the contents would switch to the > menu. That way, you’re looking at the document title most of the time, > unless you move towards it to click on the menu. Also: It’s not confirmed yet, but we will aim to go beyond what Apple and others > have done with panel menus, to consolidate both the window title (and window > controls) into the panel along with the menu. This almost perfectly fits in with the current layout of the Shell panel and it sums up a few of topics that have been discussed about the Shell (removing title bars, Shell taking over tabbing of windows (kinda), and a global menu). While this will only be default in the netbook version, I truly believe that for us, a global menu (and perhaps the Shell taking over title bars/tabbing) is a very smart decision. You can read my original proposal for something like this (global menu part) here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2010-April/msg00000.html
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