Split desktop app chat+work/codex tabs into three separate chat/work/codex tabs

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What variant of Codex are you using?

App (Desktop)

What feature would you like to see?

Currently, the desktop app has a combined "chat/work" tab alongside a separate "codex" tab. I'd like to request reorganizing the tab structure to have three separate, independent tabs instead:

• chat tab
• work tab
• codex tab

This is similar to feedback from the Claude desktop app, where users have expressed that combining chat and cowork into a single tab is not ideal. Keeping these features as separate, independent tabs would improve the user experience significantly.

Separating the tabs would:

• Improve clarity and user navigation
• Make each functionality more discoverable
• Reduce cognitive load by having a clearer tab hierarchy
• Allow users to focus on one feature at a time
• Each tab can maintain its own independent state and context

Additional information

The community feedback from Claude's recent integration of chat and cowork shows that users prefer keeping these features separate. Codex should learn from this feedback and maintain three distinct tabs for better usability and user satisfaction.