Thank you all for your helpful suggestions. Indeed, I meant the top panel
and the old Preferences and Administration menus.

I have several problems with Unity, some of which I admit, may be due to my
own ignorance. First, I have a LOT of applications in each of many
sub-menus. Wasting my limited desktop with buttons on the left I do not
need is irritating. Making me search for my apps is frustrating.

Someone in another thread described how to find gnome-terminal in Unity and
it was laughable. Not his description but the fact that he was correct. One
of the reasons I disliked the original Mac OS was the total lack of a
command line. The fact that the command line in Windoze is so pathetic is
the main reason besides $ that I don't like it. Now it seems to me that
Ubuntu is trying to move away from what makes U**x U**X; the ability to use
powerful GUIs and a powerful command line.

I think the classic Gnome desktop was the best of both worlds -- easy
access to anything GUI on the system and equally easy access to CL stuff
via the terminal. What is left is still pretty good and I have gotten back
most of the old functionality but I fear for the future.