Sign of the Gnome 3 apocalypse?

[drago01]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This bug casually mentions that an app (swell-foop) menu has
> moved from the app itself to the gnome-shell panel:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803430#c4
>
> My reaction to this is "What in the $#@! is going on?!?".
>
> Is gnome 3 now being turned into ubuntu unity where
> no apps have menu bars and you only discover them by
> accident when you happen to mouse over the unity panel?

No.

> Does anyone understand the logic behind this apparent
> wildly popular meme of hiding essential controls where
> no one is ever likely to stumble across them?

Application global actions (ones not tied to specific windows or for
single window apps) can be optionally placed in the application menu
by the app.

https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/ApplicationMenu