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You can do most of this stuff by popping the tabs into separate windows. Is it really a better solution to have a window manager in an app that's already in an
by hbn 4y ago
You can do most of this stuff by popping the tabs into separate windows.
Is it really a better solution to have a window manager in an app that's already in an OS with its own window manager?
Side-by-side tab tiling is an interesting idea to explore, a lot of IDEs have done that for years. But I don't know about a full-on window manager.
- pmontra 4y agoProbably separate windows for the tabs deserving to be promoted to apps and a tiling window manager would achieve what GP wants. We have comments here on HN praising i3. https://i3wm.org/ https://i3wm.org/ However the always open tabs I work with most of the time work better in full screen mode on my 15" laptop. Sentry, TeamCity, YouTrack, Bitbucket, AWS (more than one tab), Google Cloud Console, the web apps I'm working on. Little space for tiling.
- dahfizz 4y agoEvery feature of the OS will eventually be re-implemented in the browser. It will be slower and less convenient to use.
- Izkata 4y ago> Side-by-side tab tiling is an interesting idea to explore, a lot of IDEs have done that for years. Firefox had this as an addon before Quantum. I used it often, even with a tiling window manager, because the tab tiles didn't have their own toolbars/etc - it saved a lot of space. Its modern replacement isn't very useful, it just arranges multiple windows into tiles, each with their own toolbars/etc.
- Tagbert 4y agoI use Panorama Tab Groups to group tabs by project. When I click on a tab group the browser window only shows the tabs in that group. Selecting a different tab group swaps in the other set of tabs. It lets me have understandable groups of 10-20 tabs per project/subject.