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Feature Request: Reordering tabs

It appears that the only way to order tabs in the monitor is to detach them and then reattach them. Would be nice to have re-ordering through drag and drop if it’s easy.

We would love to support this. Unfortunately, this isn’t build into the Qt controls we use for the dockable panels, and would require custom UI coding to make it work. :frowning:

That’s not to say we won’t look at it in the future, there’s just too many higher-priority things on the todo list.

Cheers,

  • Ryan

That’s fine to defer if it’s time consuming. I probably won’t be reordering tabs very often.

In lieu of being able to reorder tabs, can the docking behavior be changed so dragging a tab into an existing pane puts it at the end of the tab bar instead of the beginning? Right now I’m having to do a lot of removing and re-adding of tabs to get the ordering I would expect…

-Nathan

Not without custom code. This is the standard behavior for Qt’s QDockWidget class, which is what we use. We will more than likely explore this in the future, just not for 6.0.

Gotcha. Thanks Ryan.

Just a heads up that we were able to figure out how to dock new tabs to the end of the tab bar instead of the beginning. We were able to do it without modifying any of the Qt code, unlike what we would have to do to get reordering working.

At least it’s a step in the right direction. :slight_smile:

This will be included in beta 7.

Awesome, glad to hear it! That will definitely make the docking more intuitive.

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