Looking at it further though, it seems that if un-maximized windows had their own menu/controls as suggested by disabling Global Menu for un-maximized windows, that the issue reported here in this bug would also be resolved as a result.
There is indeed a separate (popular) bug # 682788 for providing an option to enable Global Menu for maximized windows only.
My apologies if I confused two separate issues.
Looking at it further though, it seems that if un-maximized windows had their own menu/controls as suggested by disabling Global Menu for un-maximized windows, that the issue reported here in this bug would also be resolved as a result.
There is indeed a separate (popular) bug # 682788 for providing an option to enable Global Menu for maximized windows only.