Three cheers for Canonical, which is actively working to solve the netbook screen problem.
In a blog posted Tuesday, Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth announced that the next netbook edition of Ubuntu — version 10.10 — will have a global menu.
“In the netbook edition for 10.10, we’re going to have a single menu bar for all applications, in the panel,” Shuttleworth penned. “In the first few iterations of Ubuntu’s netbook-oriented UI, we concentrated on collapsing the window title into the top panel. In 10.10, we’re going to put the menu there.”