Comment 43 for bug 682788

I use menus pretty often, and use them for just about everything when learning new software. So I disagree with the idea that menus aren't important. I don't have any trouble with global menus, but I used to use a Mac [which has global menus], and I used to have a malfunctioning Alps touchpad on my current machine [which meant that, among other problems, it was hard to get fine motions with the cursor].

There is now a patch for the Alps, but there is bound to be trouble with another closed-source touchpad, mouse, or other device.

I have one problem with the global menus - that the menus for any one application cover up the menus for the desktop environment. Apple moderates this using the Apple menu. Unity puts the shortcuts menu there instead, and the shortcuts menu is a pain to deal with.