&gt; GNOME 3&#x27;s default theme has the slimmest window chrome any GNOME has ever had<p>Even if that was true, what your parent said is that it&#x27;s space wasting (in absolute terms). Which is actually an understatement.<p>&gt; It&#x27;s only space-wasting if you&#x27;re using applications that don&#x27;t support menus in the title bars<p>That&#x27;s really two pairs of shoes. And assuming support for the gimmick of the day (which also presumably only works for GTK3 apps) is totally insane.<p>And btw the default theme also sucks in that you can&#x27;t easily see which window has keyboard focus. And if you change the theme, it gets messier as your parent described.