appmenu menu items only appear on mouseover

Binary package hint: indicator-appmenu

Until recently, the menu items of the appmenu appeared for the currently active application at all times. Now, suddenly, they are hidden, and only the application name is shown until the mouse is moved over the space where the menu should be.

I have two machines recently updated to natty; noticed it on one, but not on the other, which had only just been updated from maverick. I was going to post asking why they're different, but then I ran apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade again, logged out, logged in, and the behaviour on the second machine matched the first. So I presume this is the result of a very recent change.

So this may be a complaint about a user interface decision someone has made. :-) The menu for the active application should always be visible rather than making the user guess a: where it is and b: what's on it.

At the very least, could we have a visible configuration item somewhere to control this behaviour.

If you don't like the application name being obscured, why not put the menu to the right of it rather than on top of it? I mean, having gone so far towards making it attractive to Mac users (of which I are one ;-) ) is this just an attempt to Be Different? :-)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: indicator-appmenu 0.1.95-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 28 17:08:01 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-appmenu
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-02-28 (0 days ago)