That's very global idea, a concept of interacting with the system...
Traditional workspace has fixed size, sometimes extended by virtual desktops, but each of them still has fixed size.
If something can't be fit in it, it has a local scroll, or locally scaled.
So the idea is to make a workspace of infinite size, with center in x0 y0. It can be globally moved with middle mouse button and globally scaled with mousewheel.
Anything on this workspace scales with it (maybe text and headers of elements must have some limits).
If you open for example some picture, it always has 100% scale relative to the workspace. And it has its place on the workspace like everything else. You can put everything in any place of the infinite workspace and navigate/scale with middle button/mousewheel and some shortcuts to automatically snap view+scale to elements.
By the word "everything" I mean files and folders (as icons in file manager), opened documents, widgets... damn! EVERYTHING!
So it's not a traditional window manager with overlapping windows and "desktop" in the background. It's one level plane that can be navigated.
If you used Blender, for example it's "sequence editor", you know what the infinite workspace guided by mousewheel means ;)
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