On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 at 14:11, samuel ammonius <sfammon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please don't close this discussion on account of something someone > else said. Wouldn't it be better for users, compositors, and apps if there > was a way to manage window positions, but the compositor could choose > not to let them? The best apps typically have an option in the preferences > for windows to remember their positions, and window managers are given > the option to move/resize windows as they please. Window managers can > then let users decide weather they want to let windows choose their own > size/position or stay put (such as in tiling window managers). Why wouldn't > Wayland benifit from a similar system? (I'm assuming that the reason you > said "for better or for worse" was just so everyone could stop talking rather > than because you actually wouldn't mind having a worse system in place)
It's not inherently better or worse, just different. For things like remembering window positions, there has already been a specific protocol written to handle that usecase linked in this thread, which is more flexible and capable than having every client save their last-seen position and forcibly restore it no matter what. Cheers, Daniel
