I don't understand why you want to access different menu options for different applications in rapid succession. Or, if you do (e.g. to open each application's Preferences dialogue box?), why each application's menu bar being in a different place would help you do this. Surely there's more mousing around?
(Acorn's Risc OS, that ran on the Archimedes and Risc PC series of computers, had a three-button mouse and used the middle button for 'Menu', so you could click anywhere in an application's window, or in its Icon bar [sort of dock homologue] icon, and get a menu, which avoided all of this hunting down the application menu problem. At the expense of all menus being multi-level, and requiring you to have and understand multiple buttons on a mouse.)
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Date: 2010-04-17 04:47 pm (UTC)(Acorn's Risc OS, that ran on the Archimedes and Risc PC series of computers, had a three-button mouse and used the middle button for 'Menu', so you could click anywhere in an application's window, or in its Icon bar [sort of dock homologue] icon, and get a menu, which avoided all of this hunting down the application menu problem. At the expense of all menus being multi-level, and requiring you to have and understand multiple buttons on a mouse.)