>Another issue with tiling window manager is that they place new windows in seemingly arbitrary positions

Well we have Xresources to to solve this, but the Gnome and KDE people ignore a standard that has been there for years.

And Fluxbox solves this issue by having point/click option to allow you to say "Make this window show up here with this size". But as usual, many GNOME/GTK and some KDE applications ignore that to.

So off we go, invent a new standard that will make my (our?) lives harder.