Design Error

[John Winterton]

The importing of application menus to the desktop panel is not working well. I have tolerated this since this desktop first came out in the 2010 time frame, but now I have sufficient experience with it to state categorically that this is a major mistake.

Description: Ubuntu 12.10
Release: 12.10
ubuntu-desktop:
  Installed: 1.287
  Candidate: 1.287
  Version table:
 *** 1.287 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

There are too many mouse clicks and motions from the application window to get to the application menu, which does not always show. The saving of a extra line on the screen is a trivial reason for all this code as well.

I have no idea who the design team is on this product, but I strongly suggest that this feature be reviewed and dropped in the next release. After over a year of using it, I can only categorize it as a damned nuisance.

The time has come to return the menu bar to the application window frame.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.287
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 25 11:06:28 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-22 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)