&gt;space-wasting default theme<p>GNOME 3&#x27;s default theme has the slimmest window chrome any GNOME has ever had. People think it&#x27;s space-wasting because the fonts are larger, but they got larger-looking buttons in fewer pixels by compressing everything into one place. It&#x27;s only space-wasting if you&#x27;re using applications that don&#x27;t support menus in the title bars, and even then it&#x27;s about the same as GNOME 2. You can check it by running GNOME 2 and 3 side-by-side.