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For GNOME, the bigger problem in my opinion is no option for a global menubar. Though there are similarities between macOS toolbars and GNOME headerbars, the fo

For GNOME, the bigger problem in my opinion is no option for a global menubar. Though there are similarities between macOS toolbars and GNOME headerbars, the former isn’t bearing nearly as much of a load as the latter is because Mac toolbars don't need to cover every function an app provides. Less-used/niche functions just don’t get a button and instead live tucked away neatly in one of any number of menus at the top of the screen. On the other hand in GNOME apps, if a function isn’t used often enough to earn a spot in the app’s headerbar or hamburger menu it just gets tossed, because otherwise the hamburger menu becomes long and unusable. This results in less functional apps that are not as well equipped to keep up with growth in the user’s skill.

jeroenhd 2y ago
Ubuntu tried to use a macOS style menu bar back in the Mir days, but in my experience that didn't quite work. I ended up with some applications using the global menu bar and others using their own, adding two menu bars right next to each other when the window was maximized. For a macOS design feature like that to work, you need every application to use the specific APIs to integrate with it, or it'll just add to the GUI mess. Ubuntu had the power to override APIs as they wished, a theme like this probably shouldn't do that, so I don't think there will ever be a stable theme that'll add a macOS menu bar.