Comment 0 for bug 1098419

Currently, it is possible to right click on the name bar of a windows to get the drop-down menu allowing the following actions:
- Minimise
- Maximise
- Move
- Resize
- Always on top
- Always on visible workspace
- Only on this workspace
- Move to workspace x
- Move to workspace y
- Move to another workspace > ...
- Close

However, when a window is maximised and the top bar is merged with the panel, allowing the global menu, there is no way to access this menu, except going back to windowed mode, thus adding an extra step to execute an action like moving the window to another workspace.

WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN:

The top panel's empty space should be right-clickable in order to be able to access those options as easily as in windowed mode.

Another option, not as good as the first one, would be to add another drop-down menu in the global menu, that would appear only when the window is maximised. The advantage would be the ability to use those actions with the HUD; however, adding a "Window" drop-down menu would interfere with apps that already have one, like LibreOffice Writer for example.

I am using Ubuntu 12.10 32 bits.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-panel (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-22.34-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-22-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jan 11 14:22:24 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-21 (81 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)