Menu bar - Ugly global menu behaviour with fullscreen window

[Dylan McCall]

Binary package hint: unity

Make a window fullscreen (so that it covers the menu bar) and press F10. It is possible to use and navigate the menu bar using the keyboard, but because the menu bar itself is hidden all you see are floating menus with no titles to tell you where they come from.

Desired Resolution:
- Opening the app menus when in full screen mode (either by pressing ALT or F10) should cause the top bar to temporally slide down over the top of the full screen application.
- After the user selects a action from any of the menus, the top bar and associated menus should slide back off the screen.
- Pressing ALT or F10 a second time should close the menu, and also cause the top bar to slide back off the screen.
- Pressing ESC should close the menu, and also cause the top bar to slide back off the screen.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Reproduced with Firefox.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Confirming. I guess we need input from design to know how to manage this corner situation.

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

Ok, sorry the design input was already there: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenuBar#full-screen

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ted Gould (ted)]

I'm not sure what needs to be done in indicator-appmenu for this. It seems this is mostly a Unity thing, no?