Honestly, this has been my argument against the menubar. It made sense in MacOS 1.0 and similar, but nowadays, it's just an archaic element kept for unknown reasons.
It's one thing that it's incredibly inconvenient in a multiple-monitor setup, it's another that the menubar is context-sensitive. So even if you've got the right app selected, you may have the wrong window, and when you go to print, you get the wrong page. Worse than that is that depending which window is chosen, certain options will also be grayed out.
It's the least innovative feature in MacOS X, and personally, I think it should go. You'd think by now that we'd come up with something better than a crappy dropdown menu.
Adding to that: 'modern' apps are doing away with menubars completely. Chrome has a single button for options/settings, Office has the Ribbon, etc. OS X requiring a menubar for apps, even when they don't need one, is a huge barrier to UI innovation.
It's one thing that it's incredibly inconvenient in a multiple-monitor setup, it's another that the menubar is context-sensitive. So even if you've got the right app selected, you may have the wrong window, and when you go to print, you get the wrong page. Worse than that is that depending which window is chosen, certain options will also be grayed out.
It's the least innovative feature in MacOS X, and personally, I think it should go. You'd think by now that we'd come up with something better than a crappy dropdown menu.