I'm surprised no one has mentioned BeOS / Haiku who's windows titlebars Tab automatically across all programs.
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/uploads/default/original/1X/abb...
WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
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Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#22Cool!
If you want tabs in Windows Explorer, I've been using QTTabBar for years and it's pretty good.
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#23Self-ad: Stack WM (for Windows 10). Also shows tabs for windows, but works more like a tiling WM.
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#24Please add a screenshot to see how it looks like.
Seconded. Marketing 101: Make it easy for the consumer to see why they might want to try the product.
I use Stardock's Groupy, and it does this well (and is inexpensive). I'm not sure why I'd want to switch to this when I already have Groupy, although the general idea is one that I think should gain more traction.
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#25I remember enjoying this with Fluxbox back in 2003 or so :)
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#26Hah! A friend just shared this with me, I'm Maurice the original author, long time anonymous hn lurker. This was a labor of love, I still remember the sheer exhilaration when I made my first sale!
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#27Not free (or 'free') but there is a commercial app that does this very well indeed - Stardock Groupy. It was bundled in with something else I bought years ago and I just leave it running as it's quite handy. https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/
You beat me to it. They’ve got a bunch of cool utilities. In the windows 7 days I was a huge fan of logon studio. Microsoft could learn a lot from what they’re doing, as for the most part I still prefer not using 3rd-party utilities to mess with things.
Their 'Fences' app is excellent (which was the app I bought the bundle for).
In particular, the ability to create a view on the desktop onto another folder. This lets me split my desktop into 'local' and 'cloud' areas by having a fence containing a view onto a Google Drive-hosted folder.
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#28In 1993, the Windows Taskbar actually began life as tabs across the top of the screen: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/history-of-the-windows-st...
Seems a key change was to name the button "Start" instead of "System". It's a built in instruction!
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#29In 1993, the Windows Taskbar actually began life as tabs across the top of the screen: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/history-of-the-windows-st...
Funny. I never liked the taskbar at the bottom of the screen on Windows, so I always move it to the top. To this day, it still screws up new window alignment, twenty five-ish years later.
After I moved to Linux and 16:9 monitors became mandatory I moved my gnome/mate taskbar to the left side, where it has stayed for about a decade. It is a bit clumsy in the vertical position, but does the job.
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#30Stardock Groupy is a commercial supported utility that does the same thing, IIRC released during the long period when Microsoft was teasing Windows 10 Sets. https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/ I think Microsoft must have abandoned sets when they moved to Edgium; their engineers were somehow under the impression that Sets was 100% dependent on Edge, and I think they must have been planning the feature as a cudge…
> for a price
At risk of seeming like a shill (I just like Groupy!) there seems to be a 50% discount code here, making it the price of a coffee: https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/groupy