On new Window mini-bar, have a tighter spacing so more icons show

RobOK

On the new Window mini-bar, please show the icons tighter together so more of the icons can show before converting to dots.

This will help the user experience of the windows mini-bar

Yannick

Hey thanks @RobOK , I think they are already too close to each other... Anyway we still need to work on this part, which is not 100% complete ...

RobOK

Yannick do you say too close b/c of the user being clear as to which one they are clicking on? If so, maybe on mouse over a box makes it more clear. So as you move your mouse along, the box makes it clear which one you are on. Or a shadow box like how Pinned Tab icons work (that would be more consistent)
(Box exaggerated here for effect)

As I stated, for me, I would like more icons to show (closer together). I only got this screen shot by widening, normally I just see dots. (At the same time, I am trying to cut back on Saved Windows)

I would like to not have the "+" icon in the same vein.

This is a really good new feature, I like it a lot!

eirk

this is a screenshot where the sidebar is at the minimum width without dots replacing the icons.
I think there are three places where spacing can be improved. (2 and 3 are the same)
1 - i dont see the reason why there needs to be so much left padding.
2, 3 - this space definitely can be made a lot smaller, and it (imo) would still look fine). I do realize that i'm using custom sf symbols so spacing is a bit inconsistent, but it doesnt really change anything.
4 - the right padding can also be reduced significantly

i think that this would still loook better than using dots.
(maybe a bit too extreme 😅)

Another option which I think also could be incorporated is to show a few (ie the current window, and two to the left and two to the right) windows as icons, and minimize the rest to show as dots.

Yannick

Let's make it better!