Re: Menu In Panel
It's a usability issue, but it's by design. There are a load of "won't fix" bugs for exactly this issue. Canonical have made the decision that the menu will fade out no matter what.
To gain control over your menu you have to use a recompiled version of Unity which patches this behaviour.
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