@emsenn I'm not actually looking for something to use personally, I'm just idly wondering if this was ever tried.
I remember when tabs really caught on, roughly the early 2000s maybe, thinking that implementing this per-application just gave a bunch of inconsistent results.
Probably better dealt with in a virtual desktop environment, but I thought it might be neat to be able to slap multiple windows related to a single project into a single frame. Editor, file manager, web pages etc.
@mike This is about what I sought with my own tiling window manager use - basically I treated it like "tmux for windows"
@mike i3 has tabbed windows
i never use them but they're there
@mike Fluxbox has this feature, and I use it all the time. It's great because I can group things together based on project or task rather than application type.
Random thoughts: to be fair, though, that's higher in the stack than the OS. The OS, arguably, is just a bunch of process management processes running behind the scenes, so maybe something analogous to tabs would be grouping processes together, like containers?
@klaatu I was being lazy when I used "OS" mainly when I know I meant desktop environment but ... yeah heh.
Could argue that UIDs are the process grouping equivalent to this functionality I think.
@mike I think that's how I conceptualize virtual desktops. I tend to use 3 for work, in order to group related functional tasks.
@mike I'm unsure because they aren't really "tabbing" but you might be interested in tiling window manager