GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 479965
Can move apps on taskbar, but can't move app groups
Last modified: 2018-01-24 13:41:43 UTC
The bug has been opened on https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139866 "With Gutsy, GNOME has a feature where you can move one app box to the left/right of another by simply clicking and dragging it on the taskbar. This allows you to rearrange your applications list. When apps are grouped into a box, like "Firefox (9)", you can't move the group box. I think this is inconsistent behavior. It should work exactly the same, where you can just click, drag, and let up where you would like the group box to land. You can actually drag a menu item within a group to another position on the taskbar, but nothing actually happens."
Hehe, yep...bug 302398 comment 25 through bug 302398 comment 27. :-)
Ping. So what to do about this? As implemented today all the groups go first. I could try to fix this by adding a sort_window (first in the windows list?) to grouped WnckTask's and use that when sorting the windows. If we want to...
Created attachment 141850 [details] [review] First try to add group reordering If we want group reordering we will loose the ability to click a group and release button on a task to select it. And still its not perfect as if you close the window I currently use for ordering (or open a new one that somehow gets first in the list) the order will be reset. Is there anyway to solve this - or shall we skip this feature altogether?
Comment on attachment 141850 [details] [review] First try to add group reordering Thanks for investigating this. There are real issues in implementing this... We could probably add a sort order in the WnckClassGroup objects. But breaking the way the menu works to enable drag and drop is a different story. It's not an annoyance for me, but I can imagine that it might be a big problem for other users. Keeping the bug for now -- maybe there's a way to handle this correctly...
Hallo, I would like to ask that this bug gets the CONFIRMED status, as I tested it on my Ubuntu 9.10 (updated as of march 22, 2010) and the behaviour described by Sebastien Bacher is still exactly the same in gnome 2.28.1 Thank you.
Marcello: UNCONFIRMED vs NEW has no real value in GNOME Bugzilla...
Sorry, I thought there was a CONFIRMED state so this bug could get a little bit more attention.
Vincent, how about using middle click to move tasks and task groups?
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