Comment 32 for bug 734325

Matthew, the problem is not a problem of speed. If I have a 1600x1200 screen with 6 editors windows in it, I prefer having the menu on each window. Moving to the global bar is at least unintuitive, and often confusing (often it's not so clear for which window you are issuing a command). Think about a gimp session with two or three images opened side-by-side, or a programming session while editing the program, the input file, having the debugger opened on the side and a terminal to compile.

And that is when you use click-to-focus. If you use focus-follow-mouse, like myself, accessing the global menu means reach the top bar avoiding all the other windows in the screen(*)... and please, do not conclude that the solution is eliminating focus-follow-mouse.

Global menu is ok when you work with only one application/window in your screen. Otherwise is, IMHO, a step back. That's my rationale for advocating at least an _option_ to have global menu only for maximized windows --- best of the two world, no drawbacks(**).

Thank for your attention.

(*) yes, I can (most of time) press F10 and keyboard-navigate the menu. Not so pretty.
(**) If you ask me why I insist and not switch to gnome shell or KDE, is because --- apart this global menu religious thing --- I like Unity a lot.