Ultimately, Canonical intends to replace all of the menus in Unity applications with this newfangled HUD. In this new version of Unity, drop-down menus have been replaced with a search box.

You can find more information about this in our data protection declaration and the external source’s privacy policy. Currently, Ubuntu uses a global menu bar, rather than separate in-app menus.

In this new version of Unity, drop-down menus have been replaced with a search box. You simply type what you're trying to do and the application gives you the commands that align to your intent.