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Darn, even GNOME jumped on the let's-make-the-UI-flat bandwagon.

To be honest I'm lost for words here: what's pushing this trend to make the actionable items blend with the content in such a confusing way?

I understand modernization but I'd really love to get a UX designer point of view here: what's the problem being tackled away by flattening all the actionable items here? What are we gaining in terms of usability?

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> Making the style feel lighter and reducing visual noise is a major goal for the style refresh

> if applied carelessly, it can also make certain layouts ambiguous. For example, a text-only button with no background would look exactly same as a window title. To prevent that, we only remove background from buttons that we can be confident won’t look confusing without it — for example, buttons containing a single icon.

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