The unity "System Settings," "Appearance," "Behavior," "Show the menus for a window" setting takes two options: "In the menu bar" or "In the window's title bar." Wolfram Mathematica, GNU Emacs, Java applications, and possibly others display menus under the window's title bar in the traditional way. This happens regardless of the value of "Show the menus for a window." In addition, applications run as a different user than the desktop user are also unable to render menus as per the setting.
The unity interface does not have an option to show menus under the window's title bar. Therefore, it is impossible to maintain a consistent user experience. Menus cannot be shown in the same location for all applications. If moving the menu bar is a goal, then one way to approach the problem might be to use separate bugs for each widget toolkit, application, and type of use. For example: * Bug #1596369 for Java applications using Swing * Bug for Wolfram Mathematica. May not be fixable if application code must be changed. * Bug for GNU/Emacs * Bug for running applications as a another user than the desktop user It would also be useful to provide users an option for the traditional behavior: * Bug to add "Below the window's title bar" to the Appearance system settings. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1594047 Title: menus do not appear in the menu bar To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1594047/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
