Bug 342966 - Make a combination of alphabetical collation and manual resorting by DND the default behavior
Summary: Make a combination of alphabetical collation and manual resorting by DND the ...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Eike Hein
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Reported: 2015-01-17 15:25 UTC by Thomas Pfeiffer
Modified: 2022-04-25 17:14 UTC (History)
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Description Thomas Pfeiffer 2015-01-17 15:25:27 UTC
Not sure if it's a bug or a feature that wasn't brought back yet, but dragging tasks (windows) on the task manager to reposition them (as it was possible in Plasma 4) isn't possible with Plasma 5's task manager.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Eike Hein 2015-01-17 15:28:52 UTC
You've probably just forgotten to set Sorting to "Manual".
Comment 2 Thomas Pfeiffer 2015-01-17 15:32:34 UTC
Oooooh, you're right. I'd forgotten that it defaults to "alphabetically".

That said: I think from a usability perspective it would make sense to have it by default sort alphabetically, while still allowing users to change the default order. That way users who don't want to sort manually wouldn't notice any difference, whereas those who do wouldn't have to change the setting first.
Would that be possible?
Comment 3 Eike Hein 2015-01-17 15:34:06 UTC
I've been thinking similarly and pondering doing that, yes (it needs some refactoring in the underlying lib, though). I always use "Manual" personally and think DND is super-useful and it bugs me how hidden it is.
Comment 4 Thomas Pfeiffer 2015-01-17 15:39:04 UTC
Absolutely! Once you've experience its usefulness, you don't want to live without that feature.

And people coming to Plasma from other OSes/DEs which support it might just think it doesn't work on Plasma and not even consider looking through the settings to make it work.

So, yes, it would be awesome if the aforementioned behavior could be implemented at some point.
Comment 5 Eike Hein 2015-01-17 15:41:33 UTC
Let's repurpose this ticket then, then we won't lose this helpful context :).
Comment 6 Eike Hein 2017-12-14 07:38:41 UTC
Nate: Please don't change titles I set, they're written to be useful to me.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2017-12-14 14:12:52 UTC
Sorry Eike, didn't mean to step on your toes.
Comment 8 Eike Hein 2017-12-21 10:45:36 UTC
No worries <3