I mean. All modern desktops are trying to remove every useless space on the UI in order to make the user experience better, specially on small screens with lower resolutions.

On my 15.6" laptop that border takes a big portion of the screen just for 3 buttons. If you also add the size of the taskbar the remaining usable screen feels smaller than it should be. I know you can hide the taskbar or hide the window borders when they are maximized but you have to be tweaking the system for everything you do.

Wouldn't it be a better idea to use another approach like Gnome Shell/Mac OS X where the 3 buttons are embedded into the application header along with other options.

The window decoration? Ken blogged about using a CSD kind of thing (https://kver.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/p ... corations/). And I swear there is a thread here but I don't remember it's title.

Thank you for your answer.

I knew about these posts but all them are from a developer view, at least the ones I read we're made by developers for developers.

I just wanted to talk about this from another perspective, like designers or end users.

but you can change the border height to smaller size.

asevens wrote:I mean. All modern desktops are trying to remove every useless space on the UI in order to make the user experience better, specially on small screens with lower resolutions.

On my 15.6" laptop that border takes a big portion of the screen just for 3 buttons.

Three buttons *and* the window title.
http://wstaw.org/m/2015/10/04/plasma-desktopxe3846.png

Personnally, I don't find it such a waste of space ...

asevens wrote:Thank you for your answer.

I knew about these posts but all them are from a developer view, at least the ones I read we're made by developers for developers.

I just wanted to talk about this from another perspective, like designers or end users.

I'm certainly not a developer, I don't find the default decoration to use a lot of space and I have a netbook with an even smaller screen size than you (10" 1024x600). You can also change the size of the decoration in system settings. I don't know if the feature was added recently or if it had been there already.