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Unity Mockup: Menu Integrated In The Window Titlebar

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WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson
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One of the design goals of Unity is to reduce the clutter of the desktop, another is to use space more efficiently. Based on this, Ubuntu user Andrea Azzarone came up with an idea/mockup to integrate (with autohide) the menu bar in the title bar for ummaximized windows:

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Since I didn't see any way to comment, I'll post it here.

http://tinyurl.com/489tge8

I just read a very interesting post about placing the menu bar into each window titlebar.

With ever increasing sizes of screens, this means much less mouse movement to reach the application menu, but as the person who created this mock-up, Andrea Azzarone, said, just how is someone to move the window frame if one cannot so easily "grab the title bar"?
I believe the standard way from the freedesktop.org people is you can grab and drag a non-maximized window with Alt-Left Mouse Click. At least that works with both kde and gnome.

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