Floating windows default proportional position

[Mandarancio]

Hi,
I added the possibility to have the default position of floating windows expressed as a proportion of the working space size.
This will allow to better match the windows that have size proportional to the working area in particular in setup with multiple outputs.

recording.mp4

Thank you very much for this amazing project!

Cheers!

[YaLTeR]

I think the use-case you're showing can be solved by simply adding relative-to "top"?

[Mandarancio]

I am not sure, it is true that with new bottom, top, left and right anchor options you could have centered windows on the side of the workspace, however you could not specify custom position: e.g. 5% from the left.

In the example the window has proportional width of 80% and it is placed 10% from the top left corner, so it is centered, however it could be as well not centered.

I do not know if I am explaining my self well.

I think the top, bottom, left and right option however could be as well great addition (but do not fill the same purpose IMO).

[YaLTeR]

It is not the goal of niri to support every possible configuration, so until there's some convincing use case for precise proportional positioning, I would prefer to not add it (the extra complexity is not worth it). I'd be fine with adding top/bottom/left/right for relative-to though.

[Mandarancio]

Agree, close in favor of #1169