Window Placement

Emily Brantley koneko.em at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 19:01:35 UTC 2005


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Havoc Pennington's entry on his blog (aggregated at p.g.o and other
places) entitled "finished software" led me to think about metacity
again for the first time in a while.

Metacity is admirably stable as a tool; it's one part of my desktop that
never calls attention to itself with problems, glaring features, or
distractions.  I never think about it, rarely have to refer to it, and
hear few questions about it.

Yeah, if there were some piece of software in the desktop that I could
regard as in "maintenance mode", metacity would be it.  But the topic
got me to thinking about where room for improvement lay, but rather than
filing a bug, I wanted to ask for the general opinion on one thing:

Does the "best-fit" window placement algorithm annoy anyone else ?

After I open a couple of windows and all the vacant real-estate is gone,
all the rest proceed to overlap one another almost as perfectly as
possible all the way up in the top-left corner.  Placing windows
perfectly atop one another seems broken.

What's the logic ?  Is this an area for improvement/development ?
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