Gnome - How to move "Activities" to context menu, please?
 

I'm currently considering moving to some Gnome based distro (but I actually don't have it, yet),
but there's one detail I don't like in Gnome and that is, the "Activities" and "Settings" menus are at the upper left corner of that desktop.

Is there any way to move these menus to the context menu in order to avoid this sometimes very long distance to that corner and make these menus accessible more comfortably?