appmenu
I upgrade from Lucid via update-manager -d and the upgrade went fine. However, I didn't get Unity's global menu. Windows stil have their indivual menu bars.
This happens for all applications.
Does this typically occur? Can this be fixed with a configuration setting?
The application menu or global menu [as some people like to refer to it] that comes with unity provided by appmenu-gtkand indicator-appmenu doesnot work on gnome-shell. There is an alpha status globalmenu extension for gnome-shell which can be installed via ppa. But it won't look exacly like what is seen in unity the video in the link shows how it works. if you want to try it out you can install it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome3-globalmenu
Best Answer
@fossfreedom was on the right track. On my system, the package
indicator-appmenu(andubuntu-desktop) was missing. Installing this package + restart solved the issue.