Why is the top menu-bar not accessable when previewing open windows of an application?

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Published on 2012-03-21T15:13:19Z Indexed on 2012/03/22 11:38 UTC
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If I have more than one window of the same application running then clicking its icon in the launcher displays a preview of that application's open windows,

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When this preview is activated I can't click on any of the icons in the Ubuntu menu-bar/panel/top bar (although hovering over them does highlight the icons). It seems odd that you can highlight the icons but pressing them has no effect. Is this behaviour normal, a bug, or a slight design flaw? I only noticed because I wanted to shut down when previewing the open windows and couldn't click on the panel power icon.

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