• Add a Screen Area setting choosing automatic, monitor, or work area placement
• Make Work Area placement panel-aware with settled re-measurement on screen changes
• Fix the dock shifting when hovering empty space with Fill alignment and zoom
• Migrate from deprecated libwnck globals to a shared WnckHandle exposed to docklets
• Support source builds against libwnck back to 3.36 for older distributions
• Remove an obsolete drag grab that logged warnings when moving dock icons
• Stop rewriting the dock theme file on every GTK theme change
• Clear stale struts when a disappearing monitor never yields valid geometry
• Modernize deprecated GTK and GLib usage, cutting compile warnings from 132 to 3