Unity global menu missing on apps with more than one window

[Jochen Fahrner]

In applications with more than one window (like Gimp) the global menu is missing on any but the main window. If some other window (like a toolbox) is active, the global menu and also the HUD are missing. Also the main window becomes inactive after doing some operations in Gimp (e.g. sharpen the picture). This way it is very cumbersome to work with Gimp.

[Efrain Valles (effie-jayx)]

Thank you for taking the time in making Ubuntu better, What versión of Ubuntu are you running? since the problem seems to be integration with some apps, please indicate if they are not the versions in the repository. Please do take into consideration that a new version of GIMP (2.8) is available in Ubuntu 12.10 Beta and it would be good to test further the issues you present.

Please do indicate the version of Ubuntu you are running.

Could you please provide us with steps to reproduce this:

Can the issue be reproduced?
What are the steps to reproduce it?
What is the expected result?
What is the actual result?

[Jochen Fahrner (jofa)]

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with all current updates. The issue can be easily reproduced:

- Open gimp.
- Click on the toolbox window (in german it is "Werkzeugkasten"), so this is the active window.
- Now move the cursor to the global menu bar. It is empty!
- I expect the same menu bar as with gimps main window active.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Reassigning to unity as a first guess, although I expect this probably lives in some other component.