no menus if toolbox selected

If you are using unity rather than gnome-classic and you happen to have the gimp toolbox or layers selected, there are no menus at the top of the screen.

The problem particularly manifests itself if you need to perform an operation on a layer, as you will typically select the layer in the layer window, which gets rid of the menus, then when you attempt to access the layer menu at the top you notice it disappeared when you selected the layer. Then you have to click back onto the main window to make the menu appear again. This behaviour is obviously really surprising (and irritating).

I would guess its because only the main gimp window has the menus attached to it and the movable side windows don't have any menus. However I'm not really sure if this is a problem with gimp so much as a fundamental problem with the unity code that attempts to put the current window's menus at the top of the screen, but the problem manifests itself with gimp so I'll report it here.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gimp 2.6.11-2ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 19 14:05:10 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gimp
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (4 days ago)