lwouis
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3 months ago Hi,
This topic was discussed in https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos/issues/515 and I think #337 as well.
The bottomline is that it's too niche. Too few people would use it. In addition, the UX would be questionable.
You can't really pin windows since they are created and deleted constantly. A new window is not the old window back. It's a new one. So as soon as the window would be closed, you would lose it being pinned. You would need to re-pin the next one after it's opened/created.
Let's say we pin apps instead. You pin Slack then Safari. So every new Slack window is leftmost in AltTab now, then Safari windows, then the rest of the window, in most-recently-use-to-least-recently-used order? So now you press AltTab. Let's say you're now in position 5 or 6. You would need to cycle Backwards 4 or 5 times to get to the Slack windows. It's perhaps easier to locate visually, since it's pinned, but it's inconvenient to navigate to since the current selected window would be to the right.
I'm afraid this is too niche, asked by too few people, to be implemented. Sorry about it!
Thank you 🙇
Being able to pin say, Iterm2, slack, etc. to always be first in the list would be pretty useful.