Add legend for icons

[alt-tab-macos-bot]

This issue was opened by a bot after a user submitted feedback through the in-app form.

From: [email protected]

Message:

Firstly, AMAZING app, and thank you for making it free. This is very well done, I love it. I have a couple suggestions:

1. Customize transparency and color of background behind all thumbnails

2. Allow user to place entire AltTab window anywhere on screen and remember that location (similar to how you can move the Spotlight window to a custom location on screen)

3. Add a legend/key of what each icon means for status icons

4. I'm not sure if this makes any sense or would be helpful, but it would be neat if you could optionally choose to have all the window thumbnails be organized or grouped by app all next to each other alphabetically, so if someone (like me) wants to scan all the windows open in Notes or Safari alongside all the other windows, I don't have to scan over the whole grid, which I assume is default ordered by most-recently-used. But in order to have it still work to quickly alt + tab TO the most recently used window without using a mouse or arrow keys, the order of recent usage would be in AltTab's "memory" and as you hit alt + tab and rotate through the windows (while grouped by app), the HIGHLIGHTED / SELECTED window might jump around in a seeming random order, so that it pops to the most recently used, while visually being grouped in an organized way.

Thank you again, this is a wonderful app!

— Kevin

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[lwouis]

We have tickets for item 1 and 4 already.

Allow user to place entire AltTab window anywhere on screen and remember that location (similar to how you can move the Spotlight window to a custom location on screen)

I just checked and indeed it can be dragged. My mind is blown. There are so many advanced features in macOS, it never ceases to amaze me.

Yes, we could consider that indeed.

Add a legend/key of what each icon means for status icons

This is one of the most sensible request I've seen in a while. I totally agree that the icons are not self-explanatory. They are useful because they are compact (vs showing a whole label like "minimized").

A legend could help make them better without compromising the compactness of the UI 👍

[lwouis]

Repositioning the window has too many issues with it and is too nice. I'm keeping this ticket for the legends part only.