Comment 3 for bug 734325

Ok. I dont think indicator-appmenu developers will be working on this bug I
guess we can say 'patches welcome' ;)

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:57 PM, mlaverdiere <email address hidden>wrote:

> @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.
>
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> Title:
> Natty: Users should be able to easily turn off (disbable) global menu
>
> Status in The Application Menu:
> New
> Status in “indicator-appmenu” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: indicator-appmenu
>
> With Natty, Ubuntu users will be presented a new default desktop,
> relying on upper bar global menu for applications, like Mac OS, but
> unlike all other previous Ubuntu desktops and all other mainstream
> desktops: Gnome (2 or 3), KDE, XFCE, MS Windows, etc.
>
> While this may be an interesting change for many users, it may (will!)
> happen that some users will prefer to keep an "in-application" ("in-
> window" or "local") menus.
>
> Right now (on Alpha 3 with daily updates), the only option is to
> deinstall indicator-appmenu package to achieve this (see:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/10481/does-unity-support-disabling-the-
> global-application-menu).
>
> This should be easier and more obvious, either by implementing an
> option somewhere in control centre or, at least, in gconf-editor.
>
> Thanks.
>