Automatic re-layout when a window is resized, removed, added, etc causes more movement than necessary

[NullVoxPopuli]

(1) Issue/Bug Description: (2) Steps to reproduce (if you know):

Not quite sure how to describe this yet, so I'll provide recordings of the behavior, and then try to describe what I expect would happen per video. Each video starts from a window-less desktop so ya'll can see how the state is built. I figure if I were to just so "the problem" we'd miss out on all the important setup parts as the window/tile-tree is built.

Example A

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/199018/225039625-681a8d6d-bb7a-44d0-9bc7-68d8460aba28.mp4

Skip to 1:40 to see the problem -- everything prior is setup

Example B

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/199018/225039322-0e2ff056-60e3-4b76-8fad-034a398b5568.mp4

Skip to 0:47 to see the problem -- everything prior is setup

Example C (the most frustrating when this happens)

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/199018/225726340-76080f5f-a420-45c6-b87a-066a9785b91b.mp4

(3) Expected behavior:

(working on more examples before I try to describe this)

(4) Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):

❯ cat /etc/os-release
───────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
      │ File: /etc/os-release
───────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  1   │ PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS"
  2   │ NAME="Ubuntu"
  3   │ VERSION_ID="22.04"
  4   │ VERSION="22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
  5   │ VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
  6   │ ID=ubuntu
  7   │ ID_LIKE=debian
  8   │ HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
  9   │ SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
 10   │ BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
 11   │ PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
 12   │ UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy
───────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

(5) Gnome Shell version:

❯ gnome-shell --version
GNOME Shell 42.5

(6) Pop Shell version (run apt policy pop-shell or provide the latest commit if building locally):

❯ apt policy pop-shell
N: Unable to locate package pop-shell

# I built from source, as I was not aware I could use apt
shell on  master_jammy [?] 

  origin  https://github.com/pop-os/shell.git 
took 5s 
❯ gl
* 3692dd4 - feat(preferences): Option to disable stacking with mouse                                            
|               (4 weeks ago) <Szymon Mikler>
|               HEAD -> master_jammy, origin/master_jammy, origin/HEAD                                              

(7) Where was Pop Shell installed from:

❯  echo $PWD
/home/nvp/Development/OpenSource/shell

(8) Monitor Setup (2 x 1080p, 4K, Primary(Horizontal), Secondary(Vertical), etc):

1 Monitor, Horizontal

❯ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 3840 x 1600, current 3840 x 1600, maximum 3840 x 1600
default connected primary 3840x1600+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   3840x1600     88.00*

(9) Other Installed/Enabled Extensions:

(10) Other Notes:

[NullVoxPopuli]

Additional info -- it appears that sometimes when this happens a window is yeeted out of the layout partially:

This terminal was behind firefox

[AMoonRabbit]

I find the same issues really with tiling mode. Even opening a new window, minimising it/closing it and the whole layout will get messed up

Screencast from 18-01-24 00:23:45.webm

Would Pop's tiling manager benefit from pre-configured zones much like Windows powertoys and KDE's tiling manager utilise? I have actually used KDE Plasmas implementation of tiling for a while, and the pre-configured zones work well to keep everything uniform without surprise re-organisation. What it lacks is Pop Shells window stacking.