@YaLTeR I have no idea what this "floating" thing you speak of is. O:)
It's not just when presenting, but when playing with new stuff too (and that happens more often).
Meanwhile, I obtained additional support for keeping it: Wife uses it often, and my Mom plans to use it too (Mom's not a niri user yet, I'm in the process of rebuilding her desktop, but she spent an hour with mine, to figure out how she wants to use hers).
Wife's use cases is having two browser windows open, below each other. She's working in one, and uses the other like a cheat sheet. She found she's often shrinking/growing the bottom one if she needs more context. She likes this arrangement, doesn't want the other window on the side ("looking down is more convenient than looking to the side, and I need the width anyway"), and when asked about floating... let me quote her response:
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My Mom's use case is similar: she's often in video calls (as a participant, not as a presenter), and has a browser window open below the call, with slides or context. She usually watches the video, but uses the context during Q&A, and grows the bottom window as needed, shrinks it back when paying attention to the call. Putting it to the side doesn't work, she needs the width. Floating doesn't work, because if it overlaps the call, she'll freak out. In her current (GNOME Shell, X11) setup, I made a small script for her that resizes the video call and the browser below it together, and bound that to a key. Not sure I could emulate that with niri + floating on Wayland.
Mom said the entire reason she's switching to niri is that she can turn floating off (I guess I now know where I got that from!). That, and scrolling, but scrolling she can live without. I can switch her to another tiling compositor, but... that'd require research. :(
I guess we're a no-floating family here. An incredibly stubborn one at that. Sorry! :)
With that said, if it's a lot of trouble to maintain this code, I can patch it back for our usecases. It wouldn't be the first time I patch back removed features and keep it up for a long time. But it would be nice if I didn't have to.
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