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Re:Rethinking Window Management in Gnome by jancsika on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:10PM (#36885877)
> I feel like tabs on browsers were invented because no desktop environment or GUI toolkit ever came up with a decent solution for multiple instances/documents. This has improved but I suspect there is more that could be done.

Alternatively, I would love a window manager that is just a maximized Firefox patched to display all native apps inside browser tabs. :)

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Re:Rethinking Window Management in Gnome by garou on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:21PM (#36885997)
Sway (i3) can stack any program as tabs.
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Re:Rethinking Window Management in Gnome by somat on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:41PM (#36886721)
True, really it should be the window managers job to provide tabs. I think browser tabs came about because people wanted many browser windows open and the windows desktop was not really providing an ideal user experience, so the browser vendors said "fine we will do it our self".

But really, if done correctly every application could be tabbed, and the application would not have to do anything.

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