[Feature request] Info about pixel-size of zones

[Aequita]

I'd like to set the size of the zones to a specific size (in pixel).
Info in zones that are currently resized or in all zones shown both would work.

[BasGeertsema]

Hi Aequita. Thank you for your request. I am curious what you want to achieve that is currently not (easily) feasible.

A layout in Fancy Tiles is specified in fractions of the width / height of the display (monitor). This means that you can reuse a certain layout between different monitors, that might have different resolutions. With monitors having different DPIs it often makes more sense to specify '3 columns over the full width', rather than '3 columns of width 360px'.

In the layout editor you see guidelines at 1/3, 1/2 and 2/3 along the axis. In practices this means that you can already create a lot of common ratios. For example, a window with width 1/4 can be create by splitting at 1/2 two times.

Because (absolute) pixels are not a primitive in a layout definition I am a bit hesitant to show this information within the layout editor. Showing this makes it visually less clean imo and interferes with the current guide lines.

However, if you can explain your use case a bit more we can find out whether it really is beneficial to show the pixel sizes.

[Aequita]

Hey @BasGeertsema, thank you for the quick reply.

In short:
I want to set a 1920px wide window in the center of my 3440px monitor, flanked by two (3440-1920)/2=760px wide zones to each side.

I have now worked around this by creating a 760px wide screenshot, displaying it at the left/right of the screen and dragging the zones manually to the inner end of said screenshot.
Coming from FancyZones on Windows just recently, I was just missing this info about the size of the zones when doing the initial setup.
But I do absolutely get your approach of compatibility with different monitors/resolutions!