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WindowTabs: Browser-style tabbed window management on the desktop

69 points by Emendo 6y ago

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
Awesome. Microsoft themselves had planned this feature for some time, but abandoned it for some reason. Instead they were probably focusing their efforts on making it harder to prevent automatic updates.
- dusted 6y ago
  the other half of their time was spent making sure you can't disable that blue full-screen "Let's finish setting up your device" nag.
- kepler471 6y ago
  Is the feature you mean called Sets? https://insider.windows.com/en-us/articles/introducing-sets https://insider.windows.com/en-us/articles/introducing-sets Looks like it was removed from Windows preview due to feedback, they may be reworking it in the background.
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josephernest 6y ago
Please add a screenshot to see how it looks like.
- ajtjp 6y ago
  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.
wtfrmyinitials 6y ago
The sway window manager has this feature built in and it's wonderful. I use it all the time.
reaperducer 6y ago
Is this like the tabs in macOS Finder, or something better?
- Toutouxc 6y ago
  It's many different apps now, even 3rd party ones, not only Finder.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  From playing around with it for a bit, it allows you to tab any application, including tabbing different applications together in a group. There's also something to do with workspaces that I haven't played with yet.
- filoleg 6y ago
  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.
Gualdrapo 6y ago
I 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.
- clircle 6y ago
  i3 and any similar window manager have this feature.
  - lallysingh 6y ago
    Yeah it's a simple addition to an xmonad config
- adamnew123456 6y ago
  A sibling comment mentioned Sway, and I've also used this on both Fluxbox and i3. I would be surprised if Awesome didn't have it as well. The only problem is that (at least in Fluxbox's case) it suffers from poor discoverability, since it's a modifier to the window drag action that has no corresponding buttons or "landing zones" like what you get if you try to tear tabs out of a Firefox window.
- arendtio 6y ago
  This is actually a feature I wish the KDE guys would bring back.
  - maverick74 6y ago
    Bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690
- maverick74 6y ago
  Bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690
greggyb 6y ago
I've had this for years in i3 on Linux.
- WalterGR 6y ago
  The README says it’s been available since 2009.
  - anthk 6y ago
    And Fluxbox had it far earlier, I remember that among a proper taskbar the ultimate advantage against Blackbox.
  - greggyb 6y ago
    And that is only tested on Windows versions as late as 7.
- hsbauauvhabzb 6y ago
  Can you run i3 on Windows through third party tools? Is not your point is moot.
  - greggyb 6y ago
    I can run i3 or other WMs on Windows with a combination of first and third party tools. WSL with an X Server will happily run a desktop environment and window manager of your choice. Windows makes a great desktop Linux :D I have run such a setup before on work machines that were required to run Windows. Beyond that, it is entirely valid to compare features across OSes.
helloworld 6y ago
In 1993, the Windows Taskbar actually began life as tabs across the top of the screen: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/history-of-the-windows-start-button-2015-7 https://www.businessinsider.com.au/history-of-the-windows-st...
- WaldoLydecker 6y ago
  Ahead of their time in breaking the desktop analogy.
- afterburner 6y ago
  Seems a key change was to name the button "Start" instead of "System". It's a built in instruction!
  - pidg 6y ago
    Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) story that the 'OK' button is only labelled that way because in user testing people read the original text - 'Do It' - as 'Dolt'.
- mixmastamyk 6y ago
  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.
- ajtjp 6y ago
  That isn't quite the same a what this software is or what Groupy does, but that is a fascinating article. I loved this part: --- For instance, one study subject took twenty minutes of staring at a Windows 3.1 desktop before being able to open a text editing program. Finally, a programmer spoke up that this was unacceptable, to Oran’s relief. But that relief would be short lived: “Our customers are morons!” exclaimed the programmer. This was frustrating enough, Oran says. But then they talked to that user, and it turns out that he was actually a propulsion engineer for Boeing. “He was literally a rocket scientist,” Oran says. “And even he couldn’t figure out Windows.” --- IMO the #1 opportunity for open source software to gain more mainstream acceptance is focusing on making it easier for non-technical users to use. Which is hard when most of your userbase is technical users. Microsoft deserves credit for realizing they had a usability problem, and having made major improvements to that over the years.
pidg 6y ago
Not 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/ https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/
- nxc18 6y ago
  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.
  - pidg 6y ago
    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.
nxc18 6y ago
Stardock 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/ 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 cudgel against other browsers. IDK, I wish the Windows PMs were like 40% less user hostile and didn’t treat us like children to be manipulated. Tldr, Groupy is pretty cool and at least appears to fit in with the windows 10 desktop better than the open source utility, for a price.
- pidg 6y ago
  > 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 https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/groupy
esalman 6y ago
My go-to file explorer power tool on Windows is Q-dir [1]. It supports tabbing among other useful features. [1] http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir
donatj 6y ago
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/abb75dd3c93f390c661cbad78427fb6d3e469f63.gif https://discuss.haiku-os.org/uploads/default/original/1X/abb...
- em-bee 6y ago
  I am still looking for a way to get BeOS/Haiku like behavior for linux
  - btschaegg 6y ago
    If you're willing to write it yourself, `awesome` (the window manager) might be what you're looking for. It's surprisingly powerful. As an example, I once had a cobbled together WM version of emacs' `ace-window` way of jumping between windows going. It wasn't even that much code… There also supposedly is a Wayland based "successor" for it called `way-cooler`. I've never used that one, though. Edit: OTOH, I've come to find the `i3` model of just allocating 10 virtual work spaces to work better for me, since that works way better with just a keyboard than tabs. But I guess this is a matter of personal preference. Edit2: It looks like `way-cooler` was discontinued last year: http://way-cooler.org/blog/2020/01/09/way-cooler-post-mortem.html http://way-cooler.org/blog/2020/01/09/way-cooler-post-mortem...
    - em-bee 6y ago
      virtual workspaces is what i am using now. trouble is that on a dual monitor setup that does not work very well, because either both workspaces move on both monitors at the same time (like kde does) or one monitor is static and only has one work space (like gnome support). the latter is slightly better, but wastes space because i can only organize one screen into multiple workspaces. there are few window managers/ wayland compositors that do that right. enlightenment is one, but i couldn't get used to it. wayfire is a new compiz style wayland compositor that does it right too. loved that one, as i was a fan of compiz before (and i got wobbly windows with kde now too :-) but unfortunately not stable enough for daily use.
rkagerer 6y ago
Cool! If you want tabs in Windows Explorer, I've been using QTTabBar for years and it's pretty good.
lostmsu 6y ago
Self-ad: Stack WM (for Windows 10). Also shows tabs for windows, but works more like a tiling WM. https://losttech.software/stack-whatsnew-2.0.html https://losttech.software/stack-whatsnew-2.0.html
moyix 6y ago
I remember enjoying this with Fluxbox back in 2003 or so :)
mauricef 6y ago
Hah! 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!
- criddell 6y ago
  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.
  - filoleg 6y ago
    >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=Average%20app%20revenues%3A%20When%20it,through%20the%20Google%20Play%20Store https://www.techaheadcorp.com/blog/android-vs-ios/#:~:text=A....
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mkl 6y ago
VS2019 but Windows 7? A similar app is TidyTabs: https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs Has anyone tried it? It's not open source, but "free for personal use".
- pseudalopex 6y ago
  The free version is very limited.[1] [1] https://www.nurgo-software.com/pricing/tidytabs https://www.nurgo-software.com/pricing/tidytabs
smusamashah 6y ago
Is it for Windows 7 only? Will it work on Windows 10?
anthk 6y ago
Fluxbox stacked applications on Window tabs, too. And still does.
maverick74 6y ago
KDE 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 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690 )
- olejorgenb 6y ago
  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#/media/File:ION3_Screenshot.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28window_manager%29#/medi...
kodablah 6y ago
For anyone else wanting to, this might be fairly easy to do in Qt with QWindow::fromWinId and then using a tab widget. I have recently done similar w/ a POC to embed FF into a tabbed UI on Windows[0] when researching making a new browser backed by FF instead of Chromium (granted I used Go to test out their Qt binding at the time). 0 - https://github.com/cretz/ffembedpoc https://github.com/cretz/ffembedpoc
thunderbong 6y ago
I use QtTabBar - http://qttabbar.wikidot.com http://qttabbar.wikidot.com

69 points by Emendo 6y ago

Awesome. Microsoft themselves had planned this feature for some time, but abandoned it for some reason. Instead they were probably focusing their efforts on making it harder to prevent automatic updates.

dusted 6y ago
the other half of their time was spent making sure you can't disable that blue full-screen "Let's finish setting up your device" nag.
kepler471 6y ago
Is the feature you mean called Sets? https://insider.windows.com/en-us/articles/introducing-sets https://insider.windows.com/en-us/articles/introducing-sets Looks like it was removed from Windows preview due to feedback, they may be reworking it in the background.

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josephernest 6y ago

Please add a screenshot to see how it looks like.

ajtjp 6y ago
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.

wtfrmyinitials 6y ago

The sway window manager has this feature built in and it's wonderful. I use it all the time.

reaperducer 6y ago

Is this like the tabs in macOS Finder, or something better?

Toutouxc 6y ago
It's many different apps now, even 3rd party ones, not only Finder.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
From playing around with it for a bit, it allows you to tab any application, including tabbing different applications together in a group. There's also something to do with workspaces that I haven't played with yet.
filoleg 6y ago
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.

Gualdrapo 6y ago

I 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.

clircle 6y ago
i3 and any similar window manager have this feature.
- lallysingh 6y ago
  Yeah it's a simple addition to an xmonad config
adamnew123456 6y ago
A sibling comment mentioned Sway, and I've also used this on both Fluxbox and i3. I would be surprised if Awesome didn't have it as well. The only problem is that (at least in Fluxbox's case) it suffers from poor discoverability, since it's a modifier to the window drag action that has no corresponding buttons or "landing zones" like what you get if you try to tear tabs out of a Firefox window.
arendtio 6y ago
This is actually a feature I wish the KDE guys would bring back.
- maverick74 6y ago
  Bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690
maverick74 6y ago
Bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690

greggyb 6y ago

I've had this for years in i3 on Linux.

WalterGR 6y ago
The README says it’s been available since 2009.
- anthk 6y ago
  And Fluxbox had it far earlier, I remember that among a proper taskbar the ultimate advantage against Blackbox.
- greggyb 6y ago
  And that is only tested on Windows versions as late as 7.
hsbauauvhabzb 6y ago
Can you run i3 on Windows through third party tools? Is not your point is moot.
- greggyb 6y ago
  I can run i3 or other WMs on Windows with a combination of first and third party tools. WSL with an X Server will happily run a desktop environment and window manager of your choice. Windows makes a great desktop Linux :D I have run such a setup before on work machines that were required to run Windows. Beyond that, it is entirely valid to compare features across OSes.

helloworld 6y ago

In 1993, the Windows Taskbar actually began life as tabs across the top of the screen: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/history-of-the-windows-start-button-2015-7 https://www.businessinsider.com.au/history-of-the-windows-st...

WaldoLydecker 6y ago
Ahead of their time in breaking the desktop analogy.
afterburner 6y ago
Seems a key change was to name the button "Start" instead of "System". It's a built in instruction!
- pidg 6y ago
  Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) story that the 'OK' button is only labelled that way because in user testing people read the original text - 'Do It' - as 'Dolt'.
mixmastamyk 6y ago
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.
ajtjp 6y ago
That isn't quite the same a what this software is or what Groupy does, but that is a fascinating article. I loved this part: --- For instance, one study subject took twenty minutes of staring at a Windows 3.1 desktop before being able to open a text editing program. Finally, a programmer spoke up that this was unacceptable, to Oran’s relief. But that relief would be short lived: “Our customers are morons!” exclaimed the programmer. This was frustrating enough, Oran says. But then they talked to that user, and it turns out that he was actually a propulsion engineer for Boeing. “He was literally a rocket scientist,” Oran says. “And even he couldn’t figure out Windows.” --- IMO the #1 opportunity for open source software to gain more mainstream acceptance is focusing on making it easier for non-technical users to use. Which is hard when most of your userbase is technical users. Microsoft deserves credit for realizing they had a usability problem, and having made major improvements to that over the years.

pidg 6y ago

Not 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/ https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/

nxc18 6y ago
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.
- pidg 6y ago
  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.

nxc18 6y ago

Stardock 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/ 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 cudgel against other browsers. IDK, I wish the Windows PMs were like 40% less user hostile and didn’t treat us like children to be manipulated. Tldr, Groupy is pretty cool and at least appears to fit in with the windows 10 desktop better than the open source utility, for a price.

pidg 6y ago
> 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 https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/groupy

esalman 6y ago

My go-to file explorer power tool on Windows is Q-dir [1]. It supports tabbing among other useful features. [1] http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir

donatj 6y ago

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/abb75dd3c93f390c661cbad78427fb6d3e469f63.gif https://discuss.haiku-os.org/uploads/default/original/1X/abb...

em-bee 6y ago
I am still looking for a way to get BeOS/Haiku like behavior for linux
- btschaegg 6y ago
  If you're willing to write it yourself, `awesome` (the window manager) might be what you're looking for. It's surprisingly powerful. As an example, I once had a cobbled together WM version of emacs' `ace-window` way of jumping between windows going. It wasn't even that much code… There also supposedly is a Wayland based "successor" for it called `way-cooler`. I've never used that one, though. Edit: OTOH, I've come to find the `i3` model of just allocating 10 virtual work spaces to work better for me, since that works way better with just a keyboard than tabs. But I guess this is a matter of personal preference. Edit2: It looks like `way-cooler` was discontinued last year: http://way-cooler.org/blog/2020/01/09/way-cooler-post-mortem.html http://way-cooler.org/blog/2020/01/09/way-cooler-post-mortem...
  - em-bee 6y ago
    virtual workspaces is what i am using now. trouble is that on a dual monitor setup that does not work very well, because either both workspaces move on both monitors at the same time (like kde does) or one monitor is static and only has one work space (like gnome support). the latter is slightly better, but wastes space because i can only organize one screen into multiple workspaces. there are few window managers/ wayland compositors that do that right. enlightenment is one, but i couldn't get used to it. wayfire is a new compiz style wayland compositor that does it right too. loved that one, as i was a fan of compiz before (and i got wobbly windows with kde now too :-) but unfortunately not stable enough for daily use.

rkagerer 6y ago

Cool! If you want tabs in Windows Explorer, I've been using QTTabBar for years and it's pretty good.

lostmsu 6y ago

Self-ad: Stack WM (for Windows 10). Also shows tabs for windows, but works more like a tiling WM. https://losttech.software/stack-whatsnew-2.0.html https://losttech.software/stack-whatsnew-2.0.html

moyix 6y ago

I remember enjoying this with Fluxbox back in 2003 or so :)

mauricef 6y ago

Hah! 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!

criddell 6y ago
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.
- filoleg 6y ago
  >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=Average%20app%20revenues%3A%20When%20it,through%20the%20Google%20Play%20Store https://www.techaheadcorp.com/blog/android-vs-ios/#:~:text=A....

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mkl 6y ago

VS2019 but Windows 7? A similar app is TidyTabs: https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs Has anyone tried it? It's not open source, but "free for personal use".

pseudalopex 6y ago
The free version is very limited.[1] [1] https://www.nurgo-software.com/pricing/tidytabs https://www.nurgo-software.com/pricing/tidytabs

smusamashah 6y ago

Is it for Windows 7 only? Will it work on Windows 10?

anthk 6y ago

Fluxbox stacked applications on Window tabs, too. And still does.

maverick74 6y ago

KDE 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 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343690 )

olejorgenb 6y ago
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#/media/File:ION3_Screenshot.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_%28window_manager%29#/medi...

kodablah 6y ago

For anyone else wanting to, this might be fairly easy to do in Qt with QWindow::fromWinId and then using a tab widget. I have recently done similar w/ a POC to embed FF into a tabbed UI on Windows[0] when researching making a new browser backed by FF instead of Chromium (granted I used Go to test out their Qt binding at the time). 0 - https://github.com/cretz/ffembedpoc https://github.com/cretz/ffembedpoc

thunderbong 6y ago

I use QtTabBar - http://qttabbar.wikidot.com http://qttabbar.wikidot.com