IMO you get most screen real estate if your top bar becomes your title bar if an application is maximized as seen in Unity or Garuda KDE Dragonized, or alternatively if you only have a bottom bar with titlebar disappearing on maximize.
On GNOME you have a top bar and a t h i c k titlebar.
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Nice history, I never knew that before today 
I use autohide sidebar. Inherited from the iMac, for the same screen realestate reasons (even though it’s 27 inch retina display)
With a 15.4" laptop, screen real estate is a big deal. I am spoilt by the iMac 
I do keep the thin Vivaldi sidebar open
@Scotty_Trees I’m playing with adwcustomizer, thanks for the recommendation, I still couldn’t find where to change accent color for gtk-file-chooser and I think adw-gtk3 doesn’t support some things, but it’s ok, now i’m trying to make the system full dark.
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Like I mentioned in my post above ( Ready for GNOME 43? - #35 by Scotty_Trees ) just be careful. I doubt AdwCustomizer has the capacity/permissions to bork your system, but with other system altering apps like gdm-settings they had a bug that borked a lot of installs ( here 1 and here 2 ), but you just never know since this is all very new software. Feel free to use it knowing that, backup the proper .css files, system files etc. or just test it out in a VM to be extra safe. If you do come across any bugs/issues, if you can please report them to upstream, as this app looks very promising and I hope that by the Gnome 43 release this app may be in a more usable/stable state, but for right now it’s very work-in-progress so use with caution. Loving the dark look btw! 
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Oh! don’t worry I usually know how to undo things so don’t worry about it, rest in peace I’m making the changes in fedora rawhide, which I use for testing, but I’ll probably try out the changes in the stable version as I use the same home folder on both.
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Full dark is a must for me due to vision impairment.
I have the system dark theme with a neat browser extension, so I think we will get a fully themed Adwaita in September.
The adwcustomizer looks a bit too early for now.
It should make 43 more flexible. That’s my hope. Am I being to optimistic?
Hey @Scotty_Trees today’s fedora rawhide image is now available to test gnome 43.alpha in VM or bare metal, It’s not a 100% GNOME experience as there are some software replacements like Web and Music which are replaced by Firefox and Rhythmbox, it’s a nice experience to do over the weekend.
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/Fedora-Workstation-Live/Rawhide/
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I’m not super curious about the Gnome 43 changes this time around, so I’m in no rush to test the latest. If I was a developer or Gnome Circles app creator or something like that I’d probably test the Alphas out to make sure my package is working and updated, but since I’m just a simple user I think for now I’ll wait until the Workstation Beta drops and a lot of bugs get fixed before testing and providing any additional feedback.
“Rawhide is targeted at advanced users, testers, and package maintainers.”
So Rawhide is very stable and we can all use it?
No. See audience above. There are things that break from time to time, but if you are able to downgrade or troubleshoot, such issues aren’t too severe. Most users should still stick to stable Fedora releases, but Rawhide is a viable option for enthusiasts to experiment with.
(Source: Fedora Wiki)
Like I said, I’m just a simple user that likes Gnome, but feel free to test the Alpha to your hearts content!
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No problem, I end up using it eventually to translate some package into my language, certainly if my language was English I would be more relaxed, but I keep the stable version installed for daily use.
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Looks like Fedora are not very confident of Web either.
I would wait for Beta.
Me too.
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Me three. I just hope they don’t break all the stuff I liked in GNOME 42.
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I just remembered another upcoming improvement to Screen Capture / Recorder in 43. Full annotation, woo hoo 
That was Wayland playing badly with some graphics cards, and some unsupported mesa drivers. At least in the discussion channels I haven’t heard of anything breaking.
http://mirrors.liquidweb.com/archlinux/gnome-unstable/os/x86_64/
nothing there 
but fabis:
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GNOME Web a.k.a. Epiphany, GNOME abandoned the name Epiphany in 2013, but the core developer didn’t get the memo. The whole dev team calls it “Ephy”.
Epiphany development has been slow. alpha.43 is still missing a lot of features, although the API’s are mostly written, but are just waiting on implementation while they discuss if they are going to write a module in C# or Vala. The team is small,
This may explain why Fedora replaced the browser with Firefox.
I still have high hopes for Epiphany (not now) but in the future, as they have some revolutionary features that others will definitely follow.
Epiphany has been touch pad ready since 36 with this forward/back touchpad swipe extended to laptop touchpads with a 2-finger swipe between pages.
Install site as an Application looks to be a first for browsers.
Good find! One would have thought they found time to update their repos.
In fact, fedora uses firefox by default because it is compatible with most content and they are big contributors to firefox, because firefox is the default browser, firefox has great wayland support in fedora.
And music is replaced by rhythmbox because unfortunately until today they haven’t fixed a bug in music that can’t be used as default to open audio files.
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Thanks for the correction. I used it way back, and assumed they were now doing a pure Gnome experience.
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