> My current biggest complaint is apps putting widgets in the title bar area. Agreed and I don't know what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My guess i

> My current biggest complaint is apps putting widgets in the title bar area. Agreed and I don't know what the reasoning for this could possibly be. My guess is that they _actually_ wanted to get rid of title bars altogether, and the current result is some kind of compromise between two factions that don't get along. From where I sit, the current trend in UI design is to remove basically all "widgets", texture, style, and visual cues from the UI until you are left with the perfect "flat" UI... consisting of only text, some pictures, and a few tiny monochrome icons that force you to guess at what they do. Since the GNOME devs seem to be over-represented by aspiring UI trend-followers, I suspect that this is where GNOME is ultimately headed as well. > This would be less common if they hadn't made the title bar ridiculously huge in the first place. IIRC, they started making the title bars huge in order to fit more things into it.