Comment 8 for bug 734325
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| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote Re: Natty: Users should be able to easily turn off (disbable) global menu | #8 |
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Over time, applications targeting Ubuntu should be designed with the global menu bar in mind. They will no longer have to artificially constrain their set of menus to the minimum size of the window. And because (modulo bug 732653) menus will be quicker to access, toolbars can become simpler too, making interfaces in general more elegant.
For this reason -- and because, as Omer suggested, it would just be poor taste -- it's inappropriate to offer a user-visible option to cram menus inside the window again. Of course you are welcome to mess around with libraries and uninstalling components and so on, but you're on your own if you do.
Don't confuse this with an aversion to customization in general. I would love to help out anyone who is interested in adding more customizability to our screensaver settings, background picture settings, battery menu settings, touchpad settings, and so on. There are many places where customization is appropriate; this just isn't one of them.
Please report the vncserver problem as a separate bug, if it isn't reported already.