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My I present GNOME:

https://woltman.com/media/posts/244/gr-menus-moving-around-3...

Because having a full menu bar at the top made it too easy to find options.



A full menu bar would take up too much space, then they wouldn't have room to put huge amounts of padding everywhere.


The Gnome team lives in constant terror of the end user customizing absolutely anything. So even when they allow it they make sure it's undiscoverable.




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