 Permalink for comment 241334 by elanthis on Thu 17th May 2007
23:00 UTC Member since:  The question you should be asking is
this: "why not?"  Because it breaks tons of apps. Any app that
was designed without this in mind, such as the GIMP, becomes
very difficult to use with this patch.  Firefox and OOo don't
support it.  On a bigger monitor, it's more of a pain to use.
The eye and mouse both have to travel further to get to the menu
bar.  KDE manages fairly fine with it. GNOME+this patch as well,
especially taking into account this patch is done and maintained
by one single guy.  Except that it still won't work right.
First, KDE and GNOME use different method of pulling this off.
You won't be able to mix-n-match KDE and GTK apps using this
patch seemlessly like you would expect. And it still doesn't
help Firefox, OOo, and any other non-GTK/non-QT app out there.
The patch doesn't even work flawlessly, nor will it ever given
its approach. It is based on reparenting the menubar, which is
about as hacky as you c