avoid covering the dock when spawning windows

[Danielle Foré]

When spawning new windows, avoid placing windows over the dock.

Many windows are small enough to be placed on screen without covering the dock.

[Harvey Cabaguio (harveycabaguio)]

Don't you just want windows to be centered?

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Right now the dock is 24px taller than the panel, so there's a 24px gap between the app filling the vertical space on top and bottom. This is an issue because the dock covers the unlucky bottom (up to) 24px of the app.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I'm pretty sure it's more than 24px taller. More like 30-32px taller. But yes that means that absolute vertical centering doesn't mean centering between the dock and panel (which is what I expect) and can lead to the bottom of the app covering the dock unnecessarily.

[Cassidy James Blaede (cassidyjames)]

Ooh, I was about to come report this and found it was already here. xD

Gala should place windows on center, with "center" being defined as the available area not taken up by docks or panels. Ideally this would mean it could detect a dock on the left or right side of the display as well.

[Tom Beckmann (tombeckmann)]

So ANY toplevel window should spawn at the center?

[KVG (kvgkvg)]

I think that newly-spawn windows shouldn't overlap with docks, panels AND other windows on the screen (if possible, of course).

[Aditya Bhargava (rightaditya)]

I'll second KVG's suggestion above. I frequently open multiple terminals and they seem to always open with the new one overlapping the old one. This is nonsensical especially when that's all I have open in a particular workspace.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

This is probably better solved in Mutter tbh. Mutter currently spawns in the "Center". Unsure if that respects struts or not, but marking as "invalid" for Gala since everything seems to be working out.