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Wow, people actually want that? I hate it with a passion whenever I use OS X, and honestly thought they just kept it for historical reasons and that no one actually likes it that way. Clearly I was wrong based on the reactions here.
I hate it because if you're moving between two apps it adds a click or keystroke to select the app before you can select the menu, and if the app is not at the top of the screen you also have to move the mouse farther.
People who love this, what is the benefit? Is it just to save a few vertical pixels if you have two apps above each other, or is there more to it?
The "menu at the top of the screen" is just one possible visualization.
Essentially an application that supports this can "export" its menu so that it can be consumed by another process.
In the case of the "global menu" this is Plasma (applet).
However, the data can also be consumed for example by a window decoration plugin, like this one https://discuss.kde.org/t/decoration-with-locally-integrated-menu/29492
There are likely many more possibilities. Maybe a Kwin effect that shows the menu as a circle of options around the mouse cursor's current position.
Okay, that's making more sense. I can see people wanting to stick the menu in the title bar or something like that.