[pjc50]

The tabs are fine. Tabs in "cmd" are also good.

The window handles, on the other hand .. this was correct in Windows 3.0 and there's basically no good reason to have changed it. There should be a title bar. Active window should have visibly contrasting title bar. There should be sufficient grab space all round a window to get hold of it.

Bonus points: move your mouse pointer very slowly around a bottom curved corner window handle on Windows 11. Ask yourself: how well does "place I am pointing at" line up with "where the curve is"?

[bigbuppo]

Oh man. the complete lack of definition or contrast from window to window is terrible. Which window are you clicking on? Nobody knows. It's especially painful when you have like three or four nested RDP sessions going on.

[marcosdumay]

The tabs and address bar on Explorer seem to actually be a copy of the default behavior of Dolphin.

If you are going to copy someone, copy from the best, I guess. But Microsoft managed fill their top-space¹ and not let enough space for the address to be properly displayed, so they need to hide information all the time.

The tabs on PowerShell are actually not a copy of Konsole. I guess that's why I always get annoyed by them on Windows, but not on Linux.

1 - There's actual less stuff than on KDE, if you don't count empty space.

[account42]

With Dolphin you don't get a tab bar until you use multiple tabs. Like OP I never saw the point of the feature though - directories aren't like webpages where I might want to open tabs to read later so anything I open should just be a new window that gets its own space.