Things are put in H containers unnecessarily polluting the layout

[HarHarLinks]

This started about 1 week ago. When first switching to any window, it would be put in a H container. Moving things around made it worse, nesting like this and deeper:

platform: arch sway version 1.6.1 autotiling-rs-git version 0.1.3.r18.gd5b66b6-1 (current master)

[KogasaPls]

The nesting issue is an i3 bug. I've submitted a fix for the current version of sway here but it won't be merged because Sway correctly reproduces i3's behavior.

[ammgws]

I remember something similar coming up in the past but labelled wontfix.. is this issue the same?

[KogasaPls]

Unfortunately any attempt to fix this bug must go through i3 first. I haven't seen any indication that it's a wontfix from i3, but they haven't figured out exactly what to do about it. I'd consider it unlikely to be fixed soon.

[ammgws]

It's still worth discussing your fix with them as it could lead to it finally getting the attention needed. Also IIRC the guy who initially posted the issue over at i3 is now the most active contributor to the project (with push access) so that may be a plus.

[ammgws]

Now that i3 apparently fixed this in https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/5469, maybe the sway team will allow someone to make the same changes.