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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by bagacrap on Monday August 27, 2018 @04:58PM (#17854498)
This is ridiculous. Any app that's in use is going to take up space in a tabstrip or other context-switching ui. If you want it to be its own window that's exceedingly easy to accomplish.
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by kitsunesoba on Monday August 27, 2018 @05:24PM (#17854682)
In the app centric macOS workspace, a window is better than a tab but not as good as an app. I have far fewer apps in my cmd-tab app switcher than I have both tabs and windows, so if I can elevate most commonly used things to the app level that’s far preferable to a window. This can be done with a wrapper app, but I’d rather not have to do that.

Under a window centric workspace like Windows and most Linux DEs, a window is good enough, but under macOS it’s not.

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