This "weird" interface design has been used for 20 years under many
platforms without user complaints. Only Gnome Unity, as it is configured
for desktop users, is breaking this design.
Anyway, the discussion of what is pleasant or not is beyond this bug
report. We need to have a way to disable
Public bug reported:
When using Gnome-Unity:
- in Ubuntu 13.04, setting the environment variable UBUNTU_MENUPROXY to any
value used to bring back the menu at the top of the application window. This
could be done per application, e.g.
$ UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=1 gedit
- in Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04,