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Move tabs to other windows or merge all tabs into one window

Open Tricky1975 opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

When opening the download folder from my browser I mostly get a new window... Lack of tabs is one of the things I hate about the original explorer, so getting a new Window with that isn't to cool either 😭. And some work I do, requires me to download stuff several times, so.....

Now if I could just move the tab in that new window to the Window I already have, hey no problem, but that feature doesn't seem to be available (that or I am blind), as I did try to drag them over. Is it possible to implement this possibility somehow.

I would otherwise also be happy if I can just "merge" all tabs from all windows into one window (effectively closing all other windows in the process).

Tricky1975 avatar Mar 19 '19 12:03 Tricky1975

I have Explorer++ now configured as my default Explorer on my work laptop.

Newly opened directories by other processes (for example some kind of shell execute / typing the path using the start menu / clicking local hyperlinks / etc.) do indeed launch a entire new process of Explorer++, with all earlier opened tabs shown again, plus the intended folder, so that's a bit redundant indeed.

I believe it would be the best if Explorer++ could have a Configuration setting with which the user can decide how they like to have this behaviour, e.g.:

  1. Launch an entire new window/process with only one open tab for just the requested directory.
  2. Do not open a new window/process, but reuse the existing one and create a new tab for the requested directory.

But I realise that especially option 1 here would possibly also leave another problem open to think about: Which window to remember after shutdown? The last opened tab or the first opened tab? This however reminds me of Visual Studio Code and some web browsers: they reopen all Windows + all tabs that where already open before shutdown. But I see that's probably also a quite a lot of work to develop of course.

eduarddejong avatar Jun 20 '24 15:06 eduarddejong