I think this is a bit beyond my technical knowledge, but afaict everything works as expected and I'd love to not have to ship Plank for X11 ❤️

This would be really cool :)

Since X11 has pretty much no security anyways what if we just allow windows to set the x property _MUTTER_HINTS (or one of our own if preferred) to something like anchor=0:hide_mode=never or centered=1 and then act accordingly e.g. in map.
This would save us the id and dbus stuff while also allowing the same process to have multiple windows that act differently.
Or maybe I've missed something this method wouldn't allow for?

@leolost2605 I think using x properties is double-edged sword. While, yes, it would save us ids and dbus stuff, but we would have to deal with x properties (which I assume is a bit more complicated than simple dbus interface) and also listen to properties changes in Gala, since user can change dock hide mode.

IMHO it's not that bad at least when using the _MUTTER_HINTS property because there mutter already handles everything for us. I did a quick implementation at #2002 which works with elementary/dock#263. What would you say about that? Or if you really prefer we could also do it this way, although we kinda want to move away from launching our clients in general see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3844)