Is there a GNOME extention to stack Windows like tabs like in Haiku?

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In Haiku window stripes with their names are short and you can stack them like browser tabs and switch between them with mouse like between browser tabs.

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Is there an extension to do the same in GNOME?

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You probably not know this yet … so that’s why I try to draw attention to it:

Keyboard shortcuts in Gnome:

  1. Switching between apps with Alt & Tab
  2. Selecting a tab of an app, use above short cut to select the app. If there are tabs open a “down arrow” marks them and opens them under the apps when you switch on it with Alt & Tab.
  3. Use the Mouse to select the tabs you like.
    3.1. As an alternative you can use the ⮜ / ⮞ keys to select them.

Gnome not uses a desktop anymore as haiku does. It focuses on work spaces. The indicator of the position of workspaces you find on the top left corner Screenshot from 2024-08-22 10-21-38 The long dash shows the active workspace while the two dots on the right indicate two more open work spaces, you can switch to (see 4.)

  1. Ctrl & Alt + ⮜ / ⮞ moves you to the left or right work space. With Alt & Tab you can switch the apps, even if they are on a other work space.

If you focus to work this way, you will probably not have the necessity of an extra extension. Extensions are mostly made from other users than the Gnome Team. If you relay on a extension, on every gnome update they have to been updated, while keyboard shortcuts mostly survive an update.

p.s.
The closest to the windows stripes you get when you activate the built in extension “Window List”

For me this extension “Window List” got obsolete when I saw that I can use Alt & Tab to see an overview of what I do have open.

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The COSMIC desktop has this feature and will be added as a Fedora Spin very likely, when it is ready

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I would not like to work with a Spin, when there is a Workstation image with all the bells and whistles.
The Spins are community focused desktops while a Edition is officially supported, what means that it gets more attention and also is more polished.

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A nice addition to this is that if you add Shift, you move the focused window to the left or right workspace. It’s a convenient way to move windows around.

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