Take the 2-minute tour ×  What intrinsic purpose does the static
unity panel hold for the OS?  There has to be a great reason for
this thing to HAVE to be here. It ONLY goes away in fullscreen
apps and I can't use everything fullscreen  Why can the unity
panel not be hidden?  share|improve this question add comment  2
Answers  up vote 6 down vote accepted  The Unity panel cannot be
hidden because the code doesn't currently allow it. Why it
doesn't allow it is because nobody has added the code to allow
it. Is it written in stone that it has to be that way? I don't
know. I doubt it. If you can come up with good solutions to the
problems that arise when the panel is hidden, I'm very confident
they will be considered. But it is important to not think about
these things too subjectively. We can't consider one part of the
puzzle at a time. We have to consider all of it simultaneously.
For instance, we don't want the desktop to feel completely
different if a window is maximized or not. That would be
inconsistent and