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Bug 660226 - Merge top bar with title bar and main menu when application is maximized
Merge top bar with title bar and main menu when application is maximized
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-27 07:42 UTC by Julien Olivier
Modified: 2017-08-09 02:47 UTC
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Description Julien Olivier 2011-09-27 07:42:08 UTC 
One of the greate features in Unity is the automatic merging of the application title bar with the top bar when the application is maximized. The advantage of such a behaviour is an important gain of vertical space when you work with maximized windows. In Unity, even the application main menu is merged into the top bar. The same thing could also be done in gnome shell by populating the already existing application menu in the top bar (but only when the app is maximized of course).

If we did that, the only information that would be lost would be the window title, but maybe it could be displayed as a tooltip over the application icon in the top bar?
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2011-09-28 14:17:53 UTC 
Much discussion of this in the past (no handy reference, sorry), not planning to do this.
Comment 2 netroby 2017-08-09 02:47:57 UTC 
6 years goes. Dear linux gnome-shell developer . would you please help us ( You may think we a stupid users)

Hide the hard and black top bar while we not needed. (Or at least provided us a control options setting at the system setting )

Let us easy to use the gnome-shell.

The linux desktop use experience can be improved. please help us.