Comment 2 for bug 1298263

If applications using Mutter specify a placement, that's fine. The primary goal bug report is to atleast have some apps be placed in the center, since it is a very popular feature in compiz. Albeit that compiz code is not directly useable out of its context.

Surely it's possible for a future plugin/or_patch to give the window manager some sort of OVERRIDE capability, for those that apps that have their own placement specification.

"slightly offsetting each new window."

is not an issue, since MOSTLY-CENTER would be good enough, compared to always at the top-left, which is dizzying.