Bug 344074

Summary:	Tabs not movable
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Alain Laporte <alain>
Component:	application	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	alain, bob.mt.wya, christoph, ekigwana, emrecio, francoisvdven, pedromorgan, sam, volkangezer
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/kate/be7b90ee88d0f45d59b2fc10b4517709f4ec02a7	Version Fixed In:	Applications 16.08
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Alain Laporte 2015-02-12 11:13:51 UTC

Before Kate 5, tabs was movable. Since Kate 5, I can't move tabs to classify my opened documents. It's a very useful feature.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open 2 documents
2. Try to move tab by clicking on it

Actual Results:  
Tab doesn't move

Expected Results:  
Tab move

Comment 1 Michal Humpula 2015-02-28 15:23:27 UTC

*** Bug 344536 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Michal Humpula 2015-02-28 15:36:58 UTC

Strictly speaking after KF5 redesign the tabs were removed. What you can see in KF5 is LRU list of documents, hence it's not possible to manually reorder it. The only article I could find describing the feature is the kate sprint wrap up http://kate-editor.org/2014/02/02/katekdevelop-sprint-wrap-up/

@Dominik have I missed the actual article?

Comment 3 Dominik Haumann 2015-02-28 17:06:10 UTC

No, unfortunately there was no follow-up article up to now.

How the tabbar can be changed of course. But right now the order might change even when you resize Kate, so I'm not sure whether manual sorting would work in the current mode. I'm sure it can be done to fit also this workflow. Needs more investigation.

Comment 4 Edward Kigwana 2015-08-06 00:09:50 UTC

Can someone look at what the kdevelop folks did to get the ability to move tabs?

Comment 5 EMR_Kde 2015-08-20 14:31:39 UTC

Konsole has the same problem. It might be related to upstream KF5 changes... which is bunk.

Comment 6 EMR_Kde 2015-09-09 12:33:58 UTC

Bump?

Comment 7 Christoph Cullmann 2015-10-04 18:44:39 UTC

At them moment that is not implemented. It is a valid wish but might not be that easy, given the current tabs are like a LRU list.

Comment 8 Sam Hobbs 2015-11-26 11:49:01 UTC

Just wanted to say I'm also missing this feature.

On a related note, I've noticed that sometimes when new documents are opened, they don't appear at the end of the list. I use Kate for programming, so this is really annoying if I want to have foo.h and foo.cpp side by side, for example. It would be fine if I could then drag the tab to the correct location, but these two things together are quite irritating.

Comment 9 Alain Laporte 2016-05-24 21:38:28 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

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

*** Bug 196808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Dominik Haumann 2016-06-15 10:31:34 UTC

Git commit be7b90ee88d0f45d59b2fc10b4517709f4ec02a7 by Dominik Haumann.
Committed on 15/06/2016 at 10:31.
Pushed by dhaumann into branch 'master'.

Add support for moving tabbar with the mouse

M  +57   -0    kate/katetabbar.cpp
M  +18   -19   kate/katetabbar.h
M  +25   -0    kate/katetabbutton.cpp
M  +10   -7    kate/katetabbutton.h

http://commits.kde.org/kate/be7b90ee88d0f45d59b2fc10b4517709f4ec02a7

Comment 12 Dominik Haumann 2016-06-15 10:33:43 UTC

So this will be in the Applications 16.08 release.

What's not yet implemented is support to drag a tab from one tabbar to another tabbar inside Kate.