Window placement in a visual display

A system for window placement, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors,
• wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method comprising:
• gathering data of user preferences of size and position of windows in a visual display through use of the visual display, wherein windows relate to resources accessed by a user of a data processing system;
• determining, automatically and upon a new display action, a current context of the visual display, wherein the current context includes existing windows in the visual display and a portion of the display that is changing;
• and
• applying, automatically, the data of user preferences to the new display action to provide an updated display context, wherein the applying includes:
• influencing one or more sizes and one or more positions of one or more windows in the visual display based on where the user would prefer to have a window open in relation to the portion of the display that is changing;
• and
• restricting a window from being moved to the portion of the display that is changing.

A computer program product for window placement, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to:

• gather data of user preferences of size and position of windows in a visual display through use of the visual display, wherein windows relate to resources accessed by a user of a data processing system;
• determine, automatically and upon a new display action, a current context of the visual display, wherein the current context includes existing windows in the visual display and a portion of the display that is changing;
• and
• applying the data of user preferences to the new display action to provide an updated display context, wherein the applying includes:
• influencing one or more sizes and one or more positions of one or more windows in the visual display based on where the user would prefer to have a window open in relation to the portion of the display that is changing;
• and
• restricting a window from being moved to the portion of the display that is changing;
• wherein the computer-readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se.