Description of problem: This version of Gnome reintroduces waste of vertical space again. Gnome terminal, Remmina etc. all come with a strip of useless white (well, grey) space below the title bar. This makes windows unnecessarily bigger (vertically) and wastes precious pixels on a wide screen display. I don't really know which Gnome component is responsible for this, so assigning to desktop for now. Maybe it is the adwaita theme - no idea. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-desktop3-3.10.2-2.fc20.i686 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run most any Gnome app. Actual results: Wastes vertical space. Expected results: This was not the case in F-19. Additional info:
Created attachment 832279 [details] F20: useless white space
Created attachment 832280 [details] F19: no useless white space
Maybe broken here: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-themes-standard/commit/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml?id=5866f09ce9ea60f6fa729f0793417e8071e1f118
That Gnome bug #706321 is probably where this problem started.
Ping... Anyone cares to revert this?
Another ping... Over two months with no reply...
It is not at all clear what you are talking about here, and your screenshot does not really show a white or gray 'strip'. Are you unhappy that the titlebar is a little higher in F20 than in F19 ? If so, that is not going to be reverted, I'm afraid. Many applications use the extra height for displaying subtitles, or other controls in the headerbar.
(In reply to Matthias Clasen from comment #7) > It is not at all clear what you are talking about here, and your screenshot > does not really show a white or gray 'strip'. If you put images side by side, you will be able to see that F20 image has a much taller bar. Maybe the name strip wasn't the best, but you will get the point. > Are you unhappy that the titlebar is a little higher in F20 than in F19 ? If so, that is not going to be reverted, I'm afraid. Unhappy is such a subjective term. Because of this, less windows fit onto the screen vertically without overlap. So, the system is less useful, in a rather objective way. > Many applications use the extra height for > displaying subtitles, or other controls in the headerbar. There are no controls to display in Gnome Terminal, for instance. So, why have the space there? I get you may need to have it for Nautilus, for instance, where headerbars actually do something. For the rest, it shouldn't be there. PS. It also looks silly to have so much space to simply display the title. This bit is entirely subjective, of course.
Sufficiently good workaround posted to upstream bug.