> > Client side decorations give way more space to the actual content than to waste space for an almost empty titlebar. > If Gnome 3 wanted to fix that, it sho

> > Client side decorations give way more space to the actual content than to waste space for an almost empty titlebar. > If Gnome 3 wanted to fix that, it should just replace its space-wasting default theme. And in reality it's a non-issue everywhere else. No other desktop environment even has this debate. Yes, other desktop environments have this debate. In Mac OSX, open any recent app and you'll see titlebars with actions (e.g. play/pause in iTunes, addressbar in Safari, etc.), presumably to compact window chrome.