I thought Gnome 3 wasted a lot of screen real estate Fonts are quite large by default. I usually set the font scaling factor to 0.9 with gnome-tweak-tool, this

I thought Gnome 3 wasted a lot of screen real estate Fonts are quite large by default. I usually set the font scaling factor to 0.9 with gnome-tweak-tool, this also reduces the size of the top panel. Since 3.10, the tendency for apps is to save space by placing buttons directly in the window title bars. For example, this is what Nautilus looks like in 3.12: http://imgur.com/3a4zIfQ http://imgur.com/3a4zIfQ