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That's allow me to say: sorry guys you still lost the way.

The fact that modern apps are web-apps is a living proof that the old model of document-based UIs was the right way against the widget/form model however old classic document-UIs was interactive, in the sense that the user can create and modify them inside themselves, web-apps might allow "a bit of customization" but are still FAR from being changeable at runtime by their users.

Perhaps in another 30+ years will finally rediscover the old model, sold as a very new high-tech thing, since nobody will remember the origin...

So far Emacs/org-mode/EXWM/org-roam can be used (I use them) as a document-based UI for almost anything, still integrated (thanks to EXWM) with modern/classic/raw-and-archaic GUIs like Firefox or GIMP. They are limited in GUI terms but at least they can have embedded images, live elements (org-mode headings, search&narrow UI to access them, attachments, links to anything that also just run live embedded code etc...

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