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Very impressive. I wish this had become a common feature of GUIs beyond the browser.

One thing I liked a lot about the Windows95 GUI when it was introduced were the tabbed property and settings. They kind of went by the wayside as a general concept though they survive in places (not that I’ve had much experience with Windows over the course of the past 20 years or so).

On the topic of moving tabs, I was a BeOS user and one thing that I enjoyed enormously (albeit in an infantile and purposelessly inchoate manner) was sliding the yellow title tab around by holding (if I remember correctly) the shift key. It wasn’t ever developed into something useful but it was fun and suggested it would be made into a useful feature.




Haiku, the BeOS' spiritual successor, did develop the feature further into "Stack & Tile": https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html#stack-ti...


Beautiful. I’ve got a recent build of Haiku in a VM and I didn’t even know this feature existed!

Thank you.


Yes, the Haiku User Guide is worth reading, there are a lot of little gems in there that are not easily discoverable otherwise :)




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