I often forget that I use Action Launcher. It has a feature that I love called Covers where an app icon is both an icon and a folder depending if I tap or swipe it.

Veronika hid in the forest, Read books with great zeal
She loved Che Guevera, A revolutionary veal

I’ll add, Clicking on running programs in the task bar and they refuse to become the active window. You need to work through them all to fine one that works before they all start working again.