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>>tobr+(OP)
One of my ideas is for application windows to have a button to flip to the internals of the application - see threads, connections, progress bars, concurrent loops, memory allocations, even stacks. This is what I call an encyclopedic desktop.

>>samsqu+wv4
The JVM more or less allow you to do that. Its debugging and profiling abilities are amazing. You can also do most of these things (and more) with the various tracing systems of the linux kernel. (edit: typo)