It could be an option as well. But the thick decorations also take screen space when not maximised.
One other thing I sometimes use is the Hide Top Bar extension, but it gets frustrating to always make it appear again.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/545/hide-top-bar/
Comparison with Windows 10. The windows having buttons on the decoration, are thick.
Since the last 8 comments in this thread is from you @fcole90, maybe you’re not aware that you can add more than one image to each post and you can also edit your post after posting it 
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Except for the sake of keeping with upstream I don’t think Ubuntu should include this, it’s another extension that would alter the GNOME experience significantly.
@fcole90 I think part of the reason why the title bar is so tall, even for non-CSD apps, is for the sake of consistency (and I suspect GNOME is, by keeping it that way, encouraging app devs to use CSD).
Ubuntu could deviate from upstream by default which would make some people happy but would make GNOME fans very angry that another deviation was made…
I actually knew it, I just thought that separate comments were more appropriate 
Yes, I agree about consistency. But still, I’m questioning whether it is a good idea to sacrifice usability for the sake of consistency. Also, what I’m proposing is not a fork and neither an extension, but a theme setting. I think this is still among the things that can be tweaked without causing concerns of causing anger to anybody.
I’m now using the extension you suggested, and it was definitely worth. But I don’t see the Yaru decorations among the available ones. Do you think they can be included? I think it uses the old-style gtk2 decorations 
I made a pull request there but the maintainer does not respond
I think I will try to upload my fork soon
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my PR got accepted 
but I made a mistake with the color 
, and made another PR now with the correct color 
So you need to wait to more updates to have the correct icons!
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Any chance we could put this extension into 19.4?
I think every unity7 user would love this:
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Thank you, that’s great 
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I am not a big fan of this extension, since it makes a mess with windows controls 
Maybe it’s not perfect, but on my laptop I could save lot of wasted vertical space. Also, the controls were on the left like they used to, the buttons would have been in the place where Activities is, which would be much less messy than moving all the other things.
Yes I fixed this in my second PR. Wrong color in the first one.
@c-lobrano what exactly is messed up?