Comment 14 for bug 749335

IMO this all needlessly complicates everything for everyone.

In the last couple of days I've written several lengthy emails in the ayatana mailing list arguing against a global menubar and suggesting to remove the top panel altogether. As a result application developers could make optimal use of the upper screen edge in a cross-platform and cross-toolkit way (=every Desktop OS except GNOME 3 and OS X, but the latter are at least partially doing away with the "forced" menubar as well from what I've seen in OS X Lion).

Not all mails show up yet https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/date.html