Yes, exactly this! Jef Raskin's Humane Interface is like that: "An end to stand-alone applications - every software package should be structured as a set of t

Yes, exactly this! Jef Raskin's Humane Interface is like that: "An end to stand-alone applications - every software package should be structured as a set of tools available to users on any document." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface I'd love to see a popular device that was done that way round.