Comment 13 for bug 749335

i think the clean solution here is to allow applications to draw widgets in the top-panel (menu/titlebar area) and (maybe) the window's titlebar. This will allow developers to place menu-buttons (like firefox, M$ Office) and tabs (Firefox, Chrome) in the window-chrome and top-panel.

It may be worth making "window-chrome widgets" that applications can choose from (a widget toolkit for window-chrome/top-panel), in the interests of consistentcy.

This would open a new world of potential for UI design on Linux - especially if we could get patches upstream for xfwm4, kwin, metacity, emerald, and unity-compiz-decorator (or make a program that overlays the widgets over these WMs). Alternatively it would be great for this to be a FreeDesktop.org standard :-) (so we only have to code unity and metacity ourselves)