Comment 2 for bug 734325

@Omer:

If we want to make this option not too obvious to non-advanced users, it could, at least, be available in gonf-editor or in an other advanced admin tool. Again, I don't think that users wanting to turn global menu off, while still liking the rest of the Unity experience, will be a marginal trend considering that no other mainstream desktops on Linux use this approach... Asking/suggesting all these users to remove a package could generate other problems in the long run (as an example: there's another default package with a similar name, i.e. indicator-applet-appmenu - so here's one risk of confusion) and I would suspect that with the apt-get dependencies system, there's also a "risk" that the indicator-appmenu package could be re-installed without user choosing to do so.

Linux users, Ubuntu ones included, are used to be able to customize their desktop/UI to some extent. Traditionally, customization options were more obvious in KDE than in Gnome, but even with Gnome, using gconf-editor ans similar tools allowed to customize many thing with the UI/desktop. I think we should maintain some reasonable options of this kind with Unity and I'm sure it will play in favour of its adoption, not the contrary.