Fix request - panel icons

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Fix request - panel icons

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I'm not sure of the correct terminology here. Say you have a Cinnamon "gnome 2" like (two panel) setup and have opened four programs. Those four program have four boxes on the bottom panel. It is hard to rearrange the order of those boxes and sometimes even impossible.

It's such a minor thing, but having the boxes move with the fluidity of rearranging firefox tabs would be great.
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Re: Fix request - panel icons

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The default behavior in Cinnamon is to re-arrange the window tabs by drag and drop.
That has worked well in any Cinnamon installation I have done.
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Re: Fix request - panel icons

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Right click on the panel and make sure the Panel edit mode is set
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Re: Fix request - panel icons

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all41 wrote:Right click on the panel and make sure the Panel edit mode is set
Excellent observation... If Panel Edit mode is On, the Window tabs do not drag and drop.
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Re: Fix request - panel icons

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It's not a panel edit mode thing. Usually the boxes can be reordered. Rarely is it impossible to reorder them. What I'm mainly talking about is how difficult it is to do, and how the boxes "jump" instead of smoothly moving like tabs in firefox.

Try it yourself. Open four programs. Move the first one to the last position. Repeat that a few times fast.

Now move the third one into the second position. Do it a few times fast.

It seems to me to be fiddly and unreliable, but not something most people will notice unless you're a bit OCD about program arrangement :)
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Re: Fix request - panel icons

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I see this--counterintuitive -no doubt.

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