Why do applications like synaptic (and other that need root privilege) have their menus in the window instead of top panel? Is it going to change or will it stay like that to indicate that user is on root privileges?
Ubuntu – Why don’t applications opened as root use global menu
11.04appmenuglobalmenusynapticunity
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11.04 - 13.10
Yes, the Desktop version of Unity will use the global menu by default.
- To disable the global menu remove the indicator-appmenu
package, then log out and back in.
Unity will continue to run without it and your menus will appear inside the application windows as normal. You can also tell the appmenu to ignore specific applications if you're having a problematic app.
The command line way to remove the package is:
sudo apt-get remove indicator-appmenu
Removing the appmenu will break the HUD feature
It is already known that you can choose whenever start your session using Unity or the 'good old' Gnome Desktop.
This is possible ( at least in the 11.04 Alpha 1 ) by selecting the Gnome Desktop in the session dropdown on the login screen.
(In case your system has not graphic acceleration enabled ( i.e. compiz ) then the default session will be the old Gnome one.)
Also it is possible to remove the global menu behavior by removing the package indicator-appmenu ( there is not graphical settings up to now )
Also they assert that Unity launcher won't be moveable. ( http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/12/ubuntu-unity-launcher-wont-be-moveable/ )
Best Answer
For an application to use the global menu the environment variable $UBUNTU_MENUPROXY needs to be set to to the name of the menuproxy library to be used. For security reasons this variable is cleared when using sudo etc. to run a program as root.
As a side effect this indicates which programs are run as root, otherwise it may be not always clear that the items in the global menu belong to a program running as root.
As this are good reasons for the current behaviour I don't expect it to be changed.