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BeOS did surprisingly little with its tab titlebars. It couldn't even automatically stack them. If you wanted to use them as actual tabs you had to hold down
by electroly 9y ago
BeOS did surprisingly little with its tab titlebars. It couldn't even automatically stack them. If you wanted to use them as actual tabs you had to hold down shift and manually move each individual tab to the right spot along the top of the window, and then manually move the windows on top of each other to sorta simulate pages being stacked. No sort of "drag these windows together and we'll turn them into tabbed pages" functionality which would have been convenient.
- btschaegg 9y agoI find BeOS mainly curious because it experimented with strange features on each level (e.g. said tabs, BeFS/Tagging, etc). I think every one of those features should (and probably would) have gotten an overhaul by now if Be Inc. was still around. That said, I haven't looked much at their APIs. If the tabbing behaviour is exposed properly, I can imagine it would be quite easy to write a small utility that stays in the tray and does that automatic tabbing separately.
- waddlesplash 9y agoHaiku does it automatically, though: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/GUI.html#stack-tile https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/GUI.html#stack-ti...