Global menu was a matter of controversial topic because of presence in Apple OS X or its earlier Mac OS. Ubuntu adopted it in their Unity desktop environment. Gnome Shell took a different approach of global menu but did not fully explore the potential.
Gnome takes on global menu has an interesting parallel to the responsive menu system found on most websites running on mobile device like this example:
http://codropspz.tympanus.netdna-cdn.com/codrops/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/...
Some websites created an interesting menu system like this example by hovering: http://www.autoblog.com/
Combining both elements provides the result attached on this message. It is surprising that idea did not show on Gnome website. The benefits are: - less clutter on the window - touch screen friendly - easy to implement on complex applications like Gimp. - Can use existing method - More possibilities like the use found on sugar interface.
Comments are welcome. Perhaps I should post it on Gnome mailing list
Luya
