I have a suggestion that might help improve how this is presented.

A little ASCII diagram of the panel when the window is maximized:

CoF | X _ + File Edit Vie | Window Title | Indicators

CoF | -  circle of friends button with the separator

X _ +  - window controls

File Edit Vie |  - applications menu. Note the " Vie | " part. It's the
menu item named View but it was cut with the | which isn't a separator
here (at least not like the one right of CoF). It is a fade effect
(similar to the one that is/was above the Trash icon when you have lots
of icons in the launcher) that nicely cuts the rest of the menu after
which the Window Title follows.

Window Title - the windows title but in bold as is now.

| Indicators - separator like the one right of CoF (so a vertical line)
followed by the indicators

My suggestion would improve discoverability  of the menus while
retaining plenty of the Window Title. This would help with people
wondering where the menus went.

This could tie into accessibility via keyboard shortcuts. I liked the keyboard 
shortcuts on the launcher in Unity 10.10/2.x and I think that this should be 
expanded on the entire launcher + panel interface. Similar how Office 2007+ 
displays them 
(http://officeimg.vo.msecnd.net/en-us/files/029/222/ZA010167826.gif). When the 
user presses the Windows (or Alt) key they get an overlay that has every item 
mapped to a key. So pressing [0-9] keys interacts with the launcher. Pressing F 
(or what ever is assigned to it by the app) selects the File menu item etc.
When the user presses Win/Alt key another thing should happen. The fade effect 
should consume the  Window Title and show the entire menu options with the 
corresponding keyboard shortcuts.

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Title:
  Maximised window title should be shown in the panel

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