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mhink on July 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Page Lifecycle API

This might be crazy, but... I think it would be kinda cool if tabs were a Thing at the window-manager level. It’s sort of a reverse approach to solving the Electron “problem”- instead of making web applications more like desktop applications, make desktop applications (including browsers) work more seamlessly together.

hoppelhase on July 26, 2018 | [–]

That's what MS is trying to do with the "Sets" feature in Windows 10.

icebraining on July 26, 2018 | [–]

Some window managers for GNU/Linux have had that for a long time; the best known is http://fluxbox.org/

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