Hello everyone,
Apologies in advance for the Google translation.
I still hope that what I write comes across understandably.
I am following this thread with great interest to bring Drawergenie to AmigaOS4.x.
This idea is really great.
I had a conversation with a programmer at a meeting in Germany tens of years ago about almost the same topic, how to make navigation easier in AmigaOS4.x without opening multiple windows.
He actually already had something in the works.
If it can possibly help with your approach, I would be happy to ask the programmer whether he releases the source code.
I have to say that it is an experimental software, it sometimes causes a crash on my X5000.
Here are a few screenshots of the software, the preferences are in German, but there is a catalog file to translate it into other languages.
As written above, I will try to reach the author to see if he releases the source code.
Hoping that it can help in your endeavors.