Comment 7 for bug 701294

I agree too, having the application menu in system panel for non-maximized application windows that are even often far far away from the top left corner where the application menu draws is really terrible, especially if you have to move the mouse cursor all the way using touchpad.

For maximized windows it is really useful as it saves some space by a painless way.

And as for the graphical side, the fade out effect in long window title that Johannes mentioned seems bad to me too, however, it doesn't appear in menus for maximized windows, thus in those for the non-maximized ones it wouldn't be problem if the menu was in its normal place - under the window header :-)