Please re-open this bug. It doesnt matter what the thing at the top bar
of the screen is called - gnome-panel or unity menubar.

Neither does it matter that you claim it is a "design decision" rather
than a bug.

The basic fact is, some applications require the whole of the top row of
the screen for their own menu. Even where that is not the case, some
users prefer the top bar to be uncluttered most of the time.

I simply cannot imagine that it can be so difficult to reproduce the old
behavior - have all of the icons scroll up, just leaving the normal
application menu (in case an application is maximised), or desktop
background (in other cases).

As for your claim that it would make the menubar harder to use, this is
clearly not the case, since if the user wants the current behaviour they
can either not enable autohide, or else they can move the cursor to the
very top of the screen and force the unity menubar to show itself.

I think what you mean to say is that the unity menu bar embeds the
current application menu, so therefore it cannot be hidden without
hiding the application menu too.

As a suggestion then -  how about this - if the menubar can no longer
scroll upwards, how about if the icons (clock, etc) would auto-scroll to
the right. This would achieve somewhat the same effect without having
the entire bar disappear.

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