Bug 196808

Summary:	Tab bar extension plugin: reorganize tabs with drag&drop
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Pedro Morgan <pedromorgan>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	arthur, genet, nbigaouette, pedromorgan, tobami
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Add sort order "Custom"

Description Pedro Morgan 2009-06-16 22:19:38 UTC

Version:           3.2.2 (using 4.2.2 (KDE 4.2.2), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.28-11-generic

With Tab Bar extension at the moment, tab/files are appended to the end.

I would like to be able to drag and drop Tabs to reorder them, similat to thay apps can be moved around on the Gnome taskbar.

Comment 1 Nicolas Bigaouette 2010-01-22 17:17:23 UTC

I'd love to see that too!!

Comment 2 Miquel Torres 2010-08-19 11:46:01 UTC

I am going to detail a use case:

With today's widescreen monitors, a very good way to use Kate as a coding tool is to hide the navigation sidebar, substitute by the tab extension, and divide the view vertically. That way you can work efficiently on two document views/files at the same time.
Now, with the tabbar being the only way you access and order your open documents, it would be a big improvement if the tabs could be rearranged in the same way as in a web browser.

Hope that made it clear.

Comment 3 Pedro Morgan 2011-03-14 00:10:29 UTC

*** Bug 192834 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Pedro Morgan 2011-03-14 00:13:14 UTC

Can someone please fix this bug please; its now over 18 months!!

TabBar->setMovable(true)
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qtabbar.html#movable-prop

Comment 5 Dominik Haumann 2011-04-16 16:10:10 UTC

It's not a QTabBar, so it needs to be implemented separately. A patch is welcome!

Btw: Tabs in the Tabify plugin are movable (since KDE SC 4.6.2 iirc).

Comment 6 Dominik Haumann 2011-04-16 16:54:41 UTC

Created attachment 59047 [details]
Add sort order "Custom"

Patch from Alex Dănilă from 2008. Needs overhaul and testing.

Comment 7 genet 2014-04-15 22:50:17 UTC

Did this custom sort order patch made it to the public version? I don't see this option in Kate 3.12.3. Thanks!

Comment 8 Pedro Morgan 2014-04-15 23:04:28 UTC

Would be nice to know.. ;-)

Its almost five years so far, and I expect a clever editor to come out by this time this bug will finally be abandoned maybe ;-)

Comment 9 Dominik Haumann 2014-04-16 08:07:24 UTC

I can check whether this patch still applies: But the patch doesn't save/load the custom sort order. So you have to do this every time you open Kate.

Comment 10 Dominik Haumann 2016-06-13 14:19:53 UTC

This is still an issue in the KDE 5 version.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 344074 ***