nautilus puts a menu bar at the top of the desktop

I see this also, but it's drawing it _underneath_ my top gnome-panel.

Thank you for your bug report, that seems normal with the indicator-appmenu applet being in use no? what is the issue exactly? can't you just remove the applet from your config if you don't want to use it?

The indicator-appmenu thing is not active in classic desktop afaict.

Nautilus didn't change recently, trying to reassigning to indicator-appmenu

The issue only happens if there is no indicator-appmenu in the classic session for some reason, it seems to happen in the unity session as well (if you switch workspace you can see the bar during the animation, you can also see a one pixel line bellow the unity-panel)

Could be due to the nautilus patch to export the nautilus panel though, Ted, do you have any clue?

ignore my comment about the unity session, I run with APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH for testing which explains why it doesn't get stripped

gnome-terminal got now also a menubar by default (even if it is disabled in the config), see bug 717332.

bug #705112 indicates it's due to a recent gtk fix from the dx team, reassign the bug

This could be a better patch, give me time to test it.
Basically I'm storing the presence (or not) of the menubar in its private structure, and on local-notify's signal callback I'm showing it only when it is meant to be shown

patch still broken... investigating

Please test it. I tested it and seems to work, but my head is blown away with other bugs to take care :) So if you have a chance, try it! otherwise, trust me!
I'm testing it right now... If I'll be silent, means that here works

The updated patch doesn't fix cases which do _show() ... _hide() (where hide is called before local_notify). I wrote some findings in bug 705112, but in short the problem is that gtk_widget_hide() only calls GtkWidget::hide if the widget was visible.

I don't have time to fix this before the feature freeze... could you (or someone) try to fix it? Basically we need to hide/show the menubar, but doing it right

This bug was fixed in the package gtk+2.0 - 2.24.0-0ubuntu3

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gtk+2.0 (2.24.0-0ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/043_ubuntu_menu_proxy.patch:
    - revert the previous upload since it's adding extra menubar when it
      should not, should fix the nautilus bar being displayed on configurations
      where appmenu is not in use
      (lp: #717358)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:05:38 +0100

This rather obtrusive patch seems to fix the issue, not sure if it breaks something though; some applications may expect that ::show is not called multiple times without ::hide in between (or vice versa). This is the best/simplest solution I can think of right now.

Uploaded a package with this patch to my ppa if someone likes to test.

installed patch from your ppa and indeed menu bar is gone now.
small remark, one of the files on your ppa has extention ".udeb" it has to be ".deb"
  ==> libgtk2.0-0-udeb_2.24.0-0ubuntu3_i386.udeb

This is present again in Oneric. I'd be happy to post more information, but am unsure of what to include.

I see this in Oneiric too. Very annoying, can be worked around by disabling nautilus desktop with "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false"

Still a problem in Oneiric with the classic desktop. Just like gnome-terminal always showing a menu bar (860342).