> (Except for those !£$"£$% gigantic title bars which GNOME apps like to stuff navigation things into so you can't really remove, wasting SO much screen estate.

> (Except for those !£$"£$% gigantic title bars which GNOME apps like to stuff navigation things into so you can't really remove, wasting SO much screen estate....) The point of the gigantic titlebars and widgets in GTK3 is to support touchscreens - you can "grab" the big titlebar on a touchscreen and move the window easily, which you wouldn't be able to do with traditional window decorations. Once you're constrained to a bigger titlebar, having widgets in there as well is just sensible. Windows 10 has chosen the alternative of just making the titlebar thicker without stuffing anything in there, which wastes more screen space! (I still think there should be a traditional, mouse-oriented layout for systems which don't support touch-- but guess what, that's quite hard. The default should be touch-friendly.)