I've had this for years in i3 on Linux.
Can you run i3 on Windows through third party tools? Is not your point is moot.
WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
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Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#42Fluxbox stacked applications on Window tabs, too. And still does.
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#43Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#44KDE Plasma also had this many years ago (before Windows' Sets), but they ended up removing it in Plasma 5.
(there is a bug report about it: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690
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Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#45I miss when KDE had this in the KDE4 days. The only place I know where you can have window tabs by default is in Haiku.
This is actually a feature I wish the KDE guys would bring back.
Bug report:
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#46I miss when KDE had this in the KDE4 days. The only place I know where you can have window tabs by default is in Haiku.
Bug report:
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#47KDE Plasma also had this many years ago (before Windows' Sets), but they ended up removing it in Plasma 5. (there is a bug report about it: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690 )
I think pwm/ion3 (now notion) was (one of?) the first WM for linux supporting tabs. Released in 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28window_manager%29#/medi...
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#48Hah! 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!
I'm not going to ask for numbers, but did you make a reasonable income selling this? The reason I ask is because I've been wondering about why the Mac seems to have a fairly healthy market for small software. It surprises me that Windows, being a much larger market, seems to have fewer opportunities for indie devs.
>I've been wondering about why the Mac seems to have a fairly healthy market for small software. It surprises me that Windows, being a much larger market, seems to have fewer opportunities for indie devs.
I think it comes down to the target audience. Of course both Mac and Windows have their fair share of users across all categories. However, it seems that, in the US, most devs and enthusiasts prefer to use Mac/Linux, while Windows is used a lot by gamers/office workers/etc. (not alleging that enthusiasts and devs don't use Windows, far from it, just talking comparatively). Given the price of an average Mac being higher than a Windows machine, it would also be fair to suggest that Mac users, on average, tend to have more disposable income as well.
With this in mind, it makes sense that the platform with more devs with more disposable income would be a better target to sell niche indie software as well.
For a similar phenomenon, look up the breakdown of earnings from apps on iOS vs. Android. There are plenty of analysis on this over the years, so here is a recent article I just found as an example[0]. Not even diving into the actual revenue per user or per app, iOS apps generated overall almost twice the revenue of Android apps in Q3 of 2019 (using numbers from the article I found), despite there being more of both Android users in the world and Android apps on the store. My reasoning as to "why" boils down to a simple guess that whichever device has more users with higher disposable income is the one that is gonna bring the developer more revenue.
0.https://www.techaheadcorp.com/blog/android-vs-ios/#:~:text=A....
Re: WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop
#49Is this like the tabs in macOS Finder, or something better?
Equating it to macOS Finder tabs is the same as equating it to tabs in Google Chrome.
Your example is of tabs within a single application. While software in the OP is for tabs for your entire workspace that can contain any application (or multiple application). Basically, it is one meta level above.
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#50VS2019 but Windows 7? A similar app is TidyTabs: https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs Has anyone tried it? It's not open source, but "free for personal use".
The free version is very limited.[1]