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Almost any window manager should be able to do that. One way would be: timing WM + a script that opens each window in new workspace + bar configuration (if the built-in bar can't do what you want, there are plenty configurable thind-party bars that most WMs support).

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I did something similar: I wrote this kwin script to arrange each window maximized in a new virtual desktop, and then this plasmoid to navigate through applications by sliding the finger on the top edge.
It's still in the first development stage, so don't expect it to be perfect, but it work for me. You may use the kwin script and create just the "tab manager", perhaps forked from pager, and arrange your panel as you like

in Wayland: sway+waybar

You can use i3 as mentioned in other comments for x11.

Aren't you mixing WM and DE together? XFCE can do that, LXDE probably too.

This should be possible to build with sway (and presumably any other tiling wm). Now that I'm thinking about it, you can probably also do this with gnome and a couple of extensions.

The status bar can be achieved with waybar in sway, which can be easily configured the way you described. In gnome there is an extension to rearrange the top panel.

I'm thinking of opening each window in a new workspace, can be configured for sway and gnome has an extension for that.

For the tabs we can use waybar with sworkstyle for each wroskpace, requires some configuration. For gnome I'd just use one of the many task bar extensions.

I can't immediately think of a solution for the searchable list, but I'd be surprised if it didn't exist for both systems.

AwesomeWM and i3 are great options.

But, if you're looking in Wayland, check out Hyprland.

I wouldn't say it's too stable yet, but is really smooth and you can customise the bar accordingly.

You can do this with XMonad and XMobar.

That's something you can do with most window managers, but if you want to write your own wm, you can use DWM as a start.

You could look into sxmo, something like i3 but designed for phones

I want to add an advice to the other answers. You can get a vertical menu with Rofi. Its easy to make it nice. You can config a button in the bar on any bar, I'm not sure about Gnome and KDE bars.

I think the awesomeWM has the status bar you've described.

Sounds like my setup except no split

@fell @linux@lemmy.ml @linux@lemmy.world @linux@programming.dev @linux@sh.itjust.works Reminds me of early Chrome OS...

notion is kinda like this, but no icons and the clock bar is at the bottom. highly scriptable in lua. it's actually a tiling WM, but the tiling area can be just one massive thing. the tabs go on top of each tyling area, so if you have only one everything is maximized with tabs on top. i used it for a long time. customized some lua too, so its start menu thing opens on mouse click on the bar.

~~Unless you wanna write your own window manager (all the power to you!) almost any barebones window manager can pretty much be customised to meet your needs with their scripting APIs.~~

Oh damn, maybe you might wanna write your own for such a specific use case.

You could just put every window on a new workspace