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Weird BSP behavior when float small windows enabled

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#480 opened on Aug 7, 2016

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Description

When float small windows is enabled with 0.11.0b, if you keep creating new windows they eventually end up being floated. This may be because the window is resized by BSP to be below the threshold for floating small windows. Amethyst shouldn't be treating windows as "small" if it was responsible for making them so!

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Investigate how Amethyst determines window size and the 'float small windows' threshold. Trace the BSP layout logic to see why windows become smaller than the threshold and are then incorrectly floated.
Tech stack
swift
Domain
desktop
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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SwiftXcode
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50