First, let me disagree violently with whoever classed this problem as
"Low" priority: it is, as others have already noted above, a real
productivity killer, on a system-wide basis, to have to be constantly
rearranging already arranged windows every time one opens an app anew
(not to mention the monstrous aggravation factor from lack of a major
feature that was considered basic in pretty much every other OS on the
planet a decade or more ago).
Second, since--as best I, a non-techie, can deduce--it seems that the
solution is obvious (use WM_WINDOW_ROLE) and, I gather, not difficult of
implementation ("If all applications did that, implementing this feature
would be trivial"), whatever is holding up implementation? It seems
everybody is sitting around the campfire nodding "Yup, right, easy-
peasy", then walking away humming a tune and leaving nothing done about
it.
Can we please get the implementation into the window manager ASAP? Then
the world can go to work on the app developers, who will have zero
excuse for not implementing proper use of WM_WINDOW_ROLE (and will
probably, by and large, be delighted to do so).
The world watches and waits . . . .
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Title:
Remember+restore window position of applications if WM_WINDOW_ROLE set
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