Is there any program that can add titlebar functionality to the menubar panel?

Question

Looking to reproduce the Unity/Gnome3 (Linux desktops) feature set on a Mac:

specifically:

• adding various window management buttons to the menu bar panel (close, maximize, maybe tile left/right)

• drag from the top to drag a maximized window, just as you would drag from the top in Windows. On Gnome desktop you can just drag from the top to move a maximized window, even though there is a panel at the top of the screen just like on Mac. Really good use of Fitts law.

• double-click on empty space in the menubar panel to maximize/unmaximize a window.

Are the any ready-made solutions to this? Are these features actually possible to implement on Mac?

Answer 1

Most of what you're asking is already there...

• The top of every window has Close, Minimise to Dock & Fullscreen buttons.
  
  Alt/click the fullscreen button will maximise instead.
  Click & hold the fullscreen button then drag to the left or right of the screen will enable Split Screen.

  Additional features can be added to the title bar - right click to Customise
  

• You can resize any window except fullscreen by dragging any edge or any corner.

  From edges...
  Alt/drag will resize from 2 sides.
  Shift/drag will resize from 3 sides.
  Alt/Shift/drag will resize from all 4 sides.

  From corners...
  Alt/drag will resize by mirroring the faces.
  Shift/drag will resize from one corner, preserving aspect ratio.
  Alt/Shift/drag will resize from all 4 corners, preserving aspect ratio.

  Cmd/drag will allow you to resize without bringing the window to the front.
  Adding any of the other modifiers will do as above, without bringing it to the front.

• Double click to maximise/minimise is an option in System Prefs > Dock