KDE has had the option of a global menu bar for awhile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_Global_menu.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_Global_menu

KDE has had the option of a global menu bar for awhile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_Global_menu.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_Global_menu.png It's not very consistent across applications, though. Hopefully Ubuntu's work here will also help more applications work with other implementations of it.