New Gedit Can't Show Menu in Title Bar

[Lonnie Lee Best]

Take a look at this screen shot:
http://neartalk.com/ss/Gedit-No-Menu.png

I like for application menus to show in the Title Bar (not at the top-panel). However, in the new Gedit GUI, the menu is inaccessible if your desktop preference is to show menus in title bar.

Unless this changes, I won't use gedit anymore because my preference of showing menus in title bars outweighs my desire to use gedit. Perhaps Ubuntu should consider using pluma as the default text-editor or geany.

It doesn't make sense for gedit to remain the default text-editor if it cannot play nice with Unity's Desktop-Level menu settings.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gedit 3.18.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-2.16-generic 4.4.0
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.4-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Feb 5 15:13:29 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-28 (100 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-02-05 (0 days ago)

[Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport)]

For now, here's a work-around that seems to work like gedit did before the gui upgrade:
sudo apt-get install pluma

Pluma seems just like the old gedit, perhaps it is some fork?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Can confirm the bug - the headerbar is NOT supposed to be displayed in Unity - only for gnome-shell.

The patch that is included in gedit source for xenial (0001) to do this menu thing doesnt seem to hide the headerbar and display the normal window decoration.

Lonnie - that patch - once it is made to work correctly will bring back the menu - there isnt a need to switch to pluma.

[spliffster (spliffster)]

pluma seems to behave like any other gtk application I use as well as the old gedit. glad i finally found a solution to this inconsistency. Also, the current gedit version handles the mosue differntly than the rest of my gtk applikation (different cursor).