You know the thing most annoying about Gnome to me? When maximized, you cannot 
move your mouse to the very top right corener of the screen clcik the "x" to 
close windows--instead, there is always a useless border. in the way In Windows, 
this is default, and in KDE this is configurable under right click on title bar-
>configure window behavior->moving->Allow moving and resizing of maximized 
windows (uncheck this)

Other information:
Fitt's Law in UI: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/ui/fittslaw.html