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Personally I'd like it for the desktop too. I've grown quite accustomed to MacOSX's menubar.

It would be nice to at least have the option on the desktop, even if it is not the default.

KDE has had the option of a global menu bar for awhile:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KDE_Global_menu.png

It's not very consistent across applications, though. Hopefully Ubuntu's work here will also help more applications work with other implementations of it.

The article cites this option will be available. But on higher resolutions, it doesn't make sense, because it increases the distance between the window and the menu, requiring more mouse movement.

OTOH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

I wonder if the differences of opinion here are due to different mouse acceleration. Ideally you should be able to hit a global menu with a small mouse movement even on a large monitor, but with improper acceleration it would be more work.

Which is why I don't understand Apple's terrible default mouse acceleration profile. On a 27" iMac, even set to "fast" it's 2 swipes of the mouse across the desk to go corner to corner.

It's one of the few areas of OS X that I consider broken by default and needs a 3rd party tool to fix (made more difficult by the Magic Mouse requiring its own drivers).

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