remember previous maximized state of apps after close

[ryanabx]

If apps were previously maximized before closing, they should be remembered as being maximized. I think gnome-shell does this, or maybe they just assume for most apps to be maximized by default.

This could be implemented as a config file saved to .cache or somewhere else, just mapping appid to state perhaps.

[Drakulix]

There isn't really an identifier to store here for applications with multiple windows, assuming every application only has one window (so the app_id as a sole identifier would work) is not a good solution imo.

So what this needs first is either (or both) of these protocols (and applications making use of them):

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/238
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/18

This currently blocks a bunch of work on restoring window state, we are very much interested in.

[ryanabx]

Interesting! I'll take a look :)

I'm sure it's been discussed extensively over there, and the more I'm thinking about it the more I realize my assumption of the same top level always being open first doesn't have to be necessarily true every time.