It's not a historic artefact. You can't trust the app to render in time... (that's also why client side decorations are worthless).

Well, even if you assume the app will take too long to render, is it really worthwhile to render the "rest" of the window (pointer, frames, etc). The main reason you're working with a particular window is the content, not the chrome, so drawing the chrome asynchronously only serves to make things look weird, not actually get things done faster.

But wouldn't that also hold for OSX/Windows?

Not that jailbreaks aren't a good thing, because I'd hate to be forced to use a locked (aka dumb) device.

Agreed... I'm quite worried about unsafe code in libraries that I'd use.

This is the way F1 turbo/engine is specified to work. Not specific to Mercedes. Only the split turbine/compressor is Mercedes specific.

It's about time to progressively tax (VAT, not profit) companies in "monopoly" markets.

In germany companies in monopoly markets (e.g. power transmission) have a fixed profit margin (I think 10%).

+1 I have the same issue with alt+tab and have stopped using Gnome shell.

If they do that, people will migrate off Gmail too. I know I will.

IMO, using .txt extension is just fine and a good idea. But it will not help until MS fixes their notepad to handle standard Unix text files.