Maximum width for editor tab

[fireattack]

This has been requested multiple times in the past years, e.g. #17775 #29953, etc., but was never actually added to VS Code.

The introduction of "shrink" (#15048) for workbench.editor.tabSizing does not replace the need of this.

For example, when you have very few tabs opening, the one with long filename will still occupy most of the space in tab bar, and makes switching or glancing other tabs difficult:

So a maximum width setting is desired for both "fit" and "shrink" mode.

The introduction of "fixed" tab sizing (#181729) method works better in this regard (so no tab would be super long), but it still does not allow the customization of max width.

[vs-code-engineering]

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[guilhermescarreira]

Hi, me and @Frostzs want to work on this feature, can we both be assigned to do it? Thank you.