Hi all,

I have an idea for a feature that, I think, might be nice.  With the
various "Window Placement" options, we all get our windows nicely in
order.  Now suppose I have a few windows like this:

+------------------------------------------------+
|                                                |
| +---------------+  +----------------+          |
| |               |  |                |          |
| |               |  |                |          |
| |               |  |                |          |
| |      I        |  |      II        |          |
| |               |  |                |          |
| |               |  |                |          |
| |               |  |                |          |
| |               |  |                |          |
| +---------------+  +----------------+          |
|                                                |
| +---------------+  +----------------+          |
| |               |  |                |          |
| |    III        |  |      IV        |          |
| |               |  |                |          |
| |               |  |                |          |
| +---------------+  +----------------+          |
+------------------------------------------------+

Now suppose, I have smart placement, rows from bottom to top and from
left to right.  I remove Window (I) and create a new Window (V) of the
size of window III and IV.  It gets put into the place of Window I.  Now
I open another window (VI) of the size of window II, which doesn't fit
anywhere and is placed somewhere, overlapping other windows.  So far so
good.

Now suppose I close Window III.  Now I have Window II and IV in their
original place, and Window V is in the left column pretty much in the
middle of the screen, Window VI somewhere in the middle overlapping
others.

So I have two Windows of size III and two of size II, as in the initial
state, but kinda "messed up" on the screen (wrt to location).

Wouldn't it be nice/nifty/useful if there was a "re-arrange" function,
that would take these four windows and re-arrange them so that they sit
on the screen nicely next to each other, thus yielding the same layout
as above?

I think I would like that.

Oh, while we're at it - I also would like that BB treats a screen that
is _completely_ covered with a window (ie maximized) the same a s an
empty screen, that is, smart placement starts again at (in this case)
lower left-hand corner.

Thoughts?  Need more ascii-art to visualize this? ;-)

-Jan

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