Install Global Menu in Ubuntu Gnome 3 (Shell)

Despite it's has been confirmed that Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric will not shipped with Gnome 3, some ubuntu user assume that Gnome still the best compared with Unity.Although Linus Torvald have expressed his disappointment to Gnome 3 performance, we still hope Gnome 3 will make significant changes and accommodate the user desire. If you feel confortable of using Global Menu, here is step to Install Global menu on Gnome 3 :

1. sudo apt-get install git-core valac-0.12 libvala-0.12-dev libgtk-3-dev gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev autotools-dev automake autoconf intltool libtool
2. mkdir -p globalmenu
3. cd globalmenu
4. wget http://gnome2-globalmenu.googlecode.com/files/gnome-globalmenu-0.9.alpha5.tar.bz2
5. tar -xvf gnome-globalmenu-0.9.alpha5.tar.bz2
6. git clone git://github.com/gnome-globalmenu/gnome-globalmenu.git
7. cd gnome-globalmenu
8. git checkout gnome-3
9. cp ../gnome-globalmenu-0.9.alpha5/src/{module.c,header.h,header-gtk2.h} ./src
10. autoreconf –force –install –verbose
11. ./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr
12. make
13. sudo make GTK2_MODULES_DIR=/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules GTK3_MODULES_DIR=/usr/lib/gtk-3.0/modules GLIB_COMPILE_SCHEMAS=/bin/true install
14. sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
15. sudo sed -i ‘s/3\.0\.2/3\.1\.4/’ /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/GlobalMenu@globalmenu.org/metadata.json
16. ln -sfv /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libglobalmenu-gtk2.so /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libglobalmenu-gtk.so
17. gnome-globalmenu-manager & GTK_MODULES=globalmenu-gtk gedit
18. sudo cp ~/globalmenu/gnome-globalmenu/globalmenu.sh /etc/profile.d/
19. sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/globalmenu.sh
20. sudo reboot

 reference : http://frijal.com/global-menu-ubuntu-gnome3/