Scrollable WMs are really terrific because you get about 80% of the productivity benefits of a tiling WM with 20% of the effort.
I am puzzeled by the fact it took us 30-40 years to figure it out !
I am puzzeled by the fact it took us 30-40 years to figure it out !
I'm also someone whose open browser tabs tend to grow indefinitely until I just have to bookmark and close all hundred of them or whatever, so... yeah, this entire paradigm looks extremely not for me.
The way people use it is you constantly reorder windows according to your workflow so DnD is not a problem.
> I'm also someone whose open browser tabs tend to grow indefinitely until I just have to bookmark and close all hundred of them or whatever
I agree the tab model is an horror. The problem is for most people the tabs are their browsing history, with a visual clutter.
My guess is there is an huge opportunity for rethinking the whole web browser history/tab model.
You might like the tabstash browser extension
I had some hacked together python that allowed me to yank a window in and out of the stack by name and stashed a window that was the oldest in the stack (basically an LRU cache for windows)
It "worked" but I would really have enjoyed paperwm when I was in college.
There are some things that only floating WMs do right. I have a bad habit of enjoying having a few floating (pinned) copies of a document on my screen at a time in different places to cross-reference without having to move around much.