Some of the admin screens show in the overlay, some in Seven theme only.
Since Seven theme ist almost completely white, this looks quite a bit different and is confusing to the user (where am I?).
And it looks far better when the gray background/border is always there.

I have not even tried to discover the logic behind when it is an overlay and when seven only (apart from that node/add is overlay, and node/edit seven only)

Since the "where am I?" Orientation is still one of the biggest in Drupal admin screens, I propose to unify it.
If it is seen as a technical disadvantage (performance?) to always open the overlay, the other pages should at least look the same and use a background/Iframe whatever to look as if they were in the overlay (even if no page is shining through, so it would be pure grey then)

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Title: Overlay: put everything into overlay optics » Overlay: put all admin screens into overlay optics

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gábor hojtsy
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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

The current overlay patch in #610234: Overlay implementation uses an isAdminLink() method in JS which filters all links on the page for known admin link pattern. It does not require marking admin links specifically anymore. So looks like this is how it is implemented already.