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Bug 761212 - Ability to manually rearrange items in the Activities Overview display of currently open windows
Ability to manually rearrange items in the Activities Overview display of cur...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: overview
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-01-28 00:24 UTC by Inactive account
Modified: 2018-07-21 13:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Inactive account 2016-01-28 00:24:28 UTC 
I think it would be very good if you had the ability to rearrange items in the Activities Overview, what I mean by that is perhaps when pressing the Shift key or something and then dragging one of the windows (if there are any) it would allow you to rearrange their order. I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18.

I initially made the request here however I was told to file it upstream as well: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1521691
Comment 1 Inactive account 2018-07-21 13:26:45 UTC 
This would be great, any work on this planned?
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2018-07-21 13:30:13 UTC 
No, sorry. There are some plans for allowing to rearrange applications in the app picker, but nothing for windows.
Comment 3 Inactive account 2018-07-21 13:40:31 UTC 
Ok, that is fine! Would it be possible to create a GNOME Extension which would be able to do this or do you not know whether that would be in the scope of the GNOME API?
Comment 4 Florian Müllner 2018-07-21 13:46:59 UTC 
The overview is entirely implemented in javascript, which means there are few limitations on what extensions can do. So yes, an extension should be able to do this.