Make the width of each thumbnail the same like HyperSwitch

[metacodes]

The current AltTab display thumbnails will adjust the width according to the size of the window, so that the width of each thumbnail is not the same. The window width is inconsistent, resulting in no alignment, which makes it look a little messy.
AltTab:

I'm going to adjust the way the thumbnail width is calculated so that each thumbnail is the same width, like HyperSwitch, which will look a little neater and more beautiful.
HyperSwitch:

What do you think?

[lwouis]

The current look is similar to the Windows 10 alt-tab UI.

Your suggested design is more stable/consistent, but it's also less compact. So it's a tradeoff. As such, some people may prefer one, or the other. In other words, a preference.

My issue is that we already have too many of those:

I know it's way more work than what you propose, but I think it's time to look at #351 and rework the existing preferences.

For example, instead of 10 different options to tweak, we could bundle them in presets. For example:

• Windows 10 style: kind of like today, with alignment to the left
• macOS style: maybe center-aligned, and with the same-width thumbnails as in this ticket
• app switcher style: no thumbnail is shown, just a big app icon. See also Let the app run without Screen Recording permission, in degraded mode #1082 (comment)
• context style: vertical align without thumbnails, something like More compact design/view like the Contexts one #384
• gnome style: see Add Gnome theme #702

That's one way to do it, with presets, but we could also approach the issue differently, and separate preferences into more tabs for instance. We could have preferences that unveil only in certain cases. For instance you would first select the style:

• Thumbnail focused (as currently done)
• App icon focused (big app icons, like the built-in switcher)
• Text focused (vertical list of window titles)

Then depending on the one you go with, we would show sub-preferences. Notice for instance that if the user goes "App icon focused", then the concern of this ticket about making each window the same width is no longer relevant since all app icons are square, not rectangle.

So in summary, I'm sorry to but this burden on you, but I think it's time to rethink the preferences for the layout options, as currently it's just a million sliders, and I don't want to add yet another one and "one day we will review / fix the situation".

Finally, note that you can already achieve the look you mentioned above from HS by simply playing with the slider called Window min width in row:

Low value	High value

The fact that it can be done, but it's unclear from the how the preferences exist today, is the whole point I'm making about focusing on reworking those, versus adding another checkbox to the existing maze of preferences.

What do you think?

[metacodes]

For example, instead of 10 different options to tweak, we could bundle them in presets. For example:
Windows 10 style: kind of like today, with alignment to the left
macOS style: maybe center-aligned, and with the same-width thumbnails as in this ticket
app switcher style: no thumbnail is shown, just a big app icon. See also #1082 (comment)
context style: vertical align without thumbnails, something like #384
gnome style: see #702
That's one way to do it, with presets, but we could also approach the issue differently, and separate preferences into more tabs for instance. We could have preferences that unveil only in certain cases. For instance you would first select the style:
Thumbnail focused (as currently done)
App icon focused (big app icons, like the built-in switcher)
Text focused (vertical list of window titles)

Good idea! I agree, there are indeed too many sliders now. We could really use some presets to reduce the number of configuration items while still meeting the different preferences of most users. Which one do you prefer? I think maybe I can do some work on this.

Finally, note that you can already achieve the look you mentioned above from HS by simply playing with the slider called Window min width in row

Just simply playing with the slider does work for my needs. Sorry about that. It's my bad.😅

Close it.

[lwouis]

We could really use some presets to reduce the number of configuration items while still meeting the different preferences of most users. Which one do you prefer? I think maybe I can do some work on this.

@metacodes I'll follow up in #351