Comment 16 for bug 649560

+1 for the consistent access to Setting to make the support documentation easier to maintain.

My original thoughts for how to do this were to restore "Show Desktop" in the bottom left (bug #681348) and then to restore the previous Places/Settings menus in the top bar whenever the desktop is at the top level. But the disadvantage of this alternative journey in Unity is because it requires two additional steps depending on state:

  a. Going to top-left to before bottom-left to show Launcher when autohidden
  b. Not having the top menubar visible until the cursor approaches it, and not having any other text at the top to point the user towards.