• Electron version: master branch
• Operating system: All

When you have to serialize a layout of windows : position, size, state and visibility. If the window is in ‘maximized’ or ‘full-screen’ state, you have no way to get its bounds when restored.
Purpose is to add a function which, whatever the state of window, returns the bounds of the window in normal state.

Proposal

 BrowserWindow.getBormalBounds(): Rectangle

Returns Rectangle - Contains the window bounds of the normal state

Expected Behavior

 const w = new BrowserWindow({
    width: 400,
    height: 400
  })
 assertBoundsEqual(w.getBounds(),w.getNormalBounds())
 const normalBounds = w.getBounds();

  w.once('maximize', () => {
    assertBoundsEqual(w.getNormalBounds(),normalBounds)
  })
  w.maximize()

Note : I have been hesitating for a long time between getNormalBounds and getRestoredBounds (name of the internal Chromium function). But we are used to talk of minimized, maximized, full-screen and normal state (not restored or unmaximized) so I choose normal. Feel free to challenge this.

Notes: Added a getNormalBounds() API to the BrowserWindow class to fetch window bounds while minimized.