[michael-ax]

is there a program-manager work-alike for the unix-desktop?

titled, nestable folders of docs and shortcuts/scripts that i can arrange at will, persisting independent of a file manager. that was a serious productivity boon! sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, i just miss that 'classic windows feature.'

[BobbyTables2]

YES!!!

https://github.com/jcs/progman

[Narishma]

This looks to be just a window manager with the look of Windows 3.x. I don't think this is what OP was asking for.

[michael-ax]

nope, that's not for me; I want light-weight manually curated progman-groups where i can mix projects, tasks and collections and get back what docks and the inflexible menu system make so hard to realize. Even even a decent menu system that understood browser bookmark format and tags and .dirinfo files would do.