I'll just add that, as an alternative to displaying the window control buttons (close, min, and unmax buttons) within the Global Menu itself, displaying them within a separate panel applet (which could be independently positioned on the panel) would also be great.
Hopefully, such a separate applet would be invisible (and collapsed to not otherwise consume panel space) when not displaying the window control buttons. But if that's not possible, then displaying the window control buttons within the Global Menu itself (rather then in a separate panel applet) would be preferable.
I'll just add that, as an alternative to displaying the window control buttons (close, min, and unmax buttons) within the Global Menu itself, displaying them within a separate panel applet (which could be independently positioned on the panel) would also be great.
Hopefully, such a separate applet would be invisible (and collapsed to not otherwise consume panel space) when not displaying the window control buttons. But if that's not possible, then displaying the window control buttons within the Global Menu itself (rather then in a separate panel applet) would be preferable.