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Client-side decorations
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Client-side decorations, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Title bars take up too much screen space on small displays2026-01-28
- Windows draw their own inconsistent title bars ignoring the desktop's button settings2024-10-06
- Client-side decorations have usability problems, such as windows not moving until a hack takes over2022-10-11
- App toolbar buttons in titlebar get in the way when trying to drag windows2015-03-01