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+# TabbDE
+
+the tabbed desktop environment.
+
+this project is currently a work-in-progress design for a better
+desktop environment. its central idea is to make the core tab + URL
+abstraction found in many pieces of software, not least of which web
+browsers, and make it an OS-level facility.
+
+currently, it is in the design phase, and has yet to enter development.