Sure.  There are plenty of ways to compress both the app name and menus next
to each other.   I tend to agree with Jean-Yves that global menus are not
good.  I always found it very non-intuitive to pull the menus away from the
window it controls.  When you have a few windows open, it takes noticeably
more brainpower to constantly figure out what window has focus or what
global menus apply to which window.  I like Mac OSX, but that is the worst
part of that UI, so it seems odd for Canonical to copy it.  Simply making
the menus expand/contract in the title bar seems like a great solution to
me.

*In any case, thanks again to Gnome team members for your amazing work and
spent time.
*
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Arthur Farias <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't have any idea of how to implement this due the inexperience with
> gtk/gnome programming. But I think that could be an great functionality,
> Gavin! Sergey suggested something that I realy liked, on mouse over or click
> event, the entire menu could slide to the right and fade in at same time
> from the the app icon in the task panel. At same time too, the time/date
> button could fade out. On the mouse out event, the menu could wait some
> time, slide back and fade out closing it, at same time, the time/date button
> could fade back to the normal state.
>
> I think that collapse, close and minimize window's buttons could be shown
> as permanent icons. next to the app and icon name. or on the same place that
> it is today when the window isn't maximized.
>
> When the window is not maximized, the app name and menus could have the
> same behavior. Instead time/date, the window's title could fade-in/out
> behaving equals to the time/date buton.
>
> Regards.
>
> AF
>
>
> 2011/10/6 Gavin Engel <[email protected]>
>
>> Arthur, what would you think about combining the app name and the menus
>> onto the same horizontal plane?  This is what I mean (although it is
>> directed at Unity, I don't see why it couldn't also apply to Gnome Shell):
>> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/unity-mockup-menu-integrated-in-window.html
>>
>> If I had *any* idea how to make this happen in a Gnome Shell Extension,
>> I'd work on trying to make that happen.  Sadly, I don't!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Arthur Farias <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Wich new software project implementation isn't buggy? I think that is
>>> still a great idea, save some space on screen it's something that can't be
>>> discarded on this new Gnome version. So, something like Unity Global Menu
>>> could be usefull to that purpose.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> AF
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/10/6 Jean-Yves LENHOF <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>> Le 06/10/2011 21:44, Arthur Farias a écrit :
>>>> > Hello everyone! (I'm new here)
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm using the new version of gnome and I did not liked the big title
>>>> > bar, It is consuming too much space on the top of window. So, I  wrote
>>>> > to you here to suggest an integration with the task bar to save some
>>>> > screen space.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks!
>>>> >
>>>> > Arthur Farias
>>>>
>>>> Please, no.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried unity which do it by default and always has to found how to
>>>> remove this behaviour because for now globalmenu is buggy.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> JYL
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