gnome panel

[ahso4271]

Hi
installed 12.04 and want the gnome panel to be about the same as in unity or at least below windows, so I can set f.ex. Firefox to fullscreen.
Where/which setting to change?
Thanks

[ahso4271]

tried this but says shell not supported or so:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=264623

sigh...
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit