Ive started studying the amarok code to see how to reintegrate the hide menu bar feature which is sorely missed by many more than just myself.
If theres anyone wishing to help can they please post here, so far I think the file 'amarok/src/playlistwindow.cpp' has something to do with it.
If you miss this feature and can code please take a look and help out!

You probably will want to reverse this patch.
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=666699

Thanks that seems very helpful!

Success! Thanks to Dan for pointing me towards the svn revision where the feature was removed, didn't make it too hard to reverse!
I've rebuilt the feisty package with the feature back in, for those unfortunates who don't use Ubuntu Ive also included a patched source package.
Enjoy!

Patched Ubuntu Feisty Package:  http://www.mediafire.com/?elyfme9ltcw
Patched Source Package:            http://www.mediafire.com/?5dt9cuftedx

what exactly did you change? can you post it here for other people who may not have the time or too lazy to go through the source code?

See the above link posted by dan for what I changed

ok, i kinda figured out that was what you changed couple of hours after i wrote what i wrote.

i hope this will be reintegrated(together with the ctrl+m shortcut)

Thank you for making this patch. I really missed this feature but the update improved so many other things I couldn't go back. It has worked perfectly.