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One cool feature that I didn’t see described very well here is Cosmic allows you to group windows in tabs, but the tabs can be different applications. Kind of a
by gedy 2y ago
One cool feature that I didn’t see described very well here is Cosmic allows you to group windows in tabs, but the tabs can be different applications. Kind of an interesting idea that the OS/window manager is what should be responsible for tab support, not each application.
- seaal 2y agoStacking is fantastic feature but it's not unique to Cosmic as the current DE for Pop_OS already has this feature. Also available on Windows with FancyWM, which has been growing on me.
- mariusor 2y agoAlso available for KWin since a very long time (at least a decade).
- alxlaz 2y agoSeveral Linux WMs and DEs had this feature a long time ago, when screen space was kind of at a premium. Fluxbox had it for as long as I can remember it. KDE used to have it at some point in its 3.x or 4.x-series releases, I don't recall which one.
- n3storm 2y agoI would love to see this in xfwm4
- mananaysiempre 2y agoOriginally from BeOS, I believe. (Thus the funky BeOS window shape. Still quite difficult to discover.)
- rzzzt 2y agoYou could drag the short title bar with a modifier key to move it from the leftmost position, and non-overlapping title bars would snap together to form tabs.
- gedy 2y agoI've been running PopOS, but don't see it - the Super+S stack shortcuts don't seem to be available unless I'm missing something.
- nutrie 2y agoI think it doesn't work unless you're in the tiling mode. You can also drag one one window into another window.
- worldsayshi 2y agoI like the idea but I also get reminded of the way the edge browser turns each tab into its own unit in the alt-tab switcher. That feels quite annoying. There are a number of UX conventions, like tabs and tiles that often get replicated across both OS level and across different apps and they get slightly different key combos and interaction details. It would be interesting if those conventions could be moved to the window manager layer instead. But then there are probably a bunch of interesting edge cases that needs solutions. Like should the file tree navigator of the ide exist in a separate WM-tile than the editor tiles? And if the file navigation spawns an editor, where should it appear? Etc...
- the_duke 2y agoi3 , the tiling window manager, has had this for many years.
- msephton 2y agoThis reminds me of a discussion on Twitter about this. Macintosh System 7 that had an app called Stapler, early Mac OS X had one called LaunchList both contained aliases to apps and documents. So I see the benefit of the OS managing this grouping.
- jacknews 2y ago"Kind of an interesting idea that the OS/window manager is what should be responsible for tab support, not each application." I agree completely, and even popup menus, sidebars and other sections of apps could/should be handled above/outside the app, for consistency, flexibility, etc.