Ideas on improving the manual grouping and sorting in the tasks applet

[Christian Mollekopf]

Hi,

i thought about improving the grouping and sorting and was wondering if this 
sound like a good idea =)

In order to remove the current grouping key (alt) i thought it would be nice 
if there was some visual feedback when dragging tasks  around in the taskbar.

For grouping one would have to drag a item A over the middle two quarter of 
another item B (group or taskitem). The item B would then be highlighted to 
indicate that item A is grouped with item B.  On drop the grouping is 
executed.

For sorting one would have to hit the outer quarters and the feedback would be 
a highlighted (glowing) bar displayed between the tasks.

So in a horizontal applet the hitboxes would look like this (in case it's not 
yet clear ;-)

	SGGS|SGGS|SGGS|SGGS

When only sorting OR grouping is manual we can of course take the whloe item 
as hitbox (or the two halfs for sorting)

I'm not quite sure if this very convenient with vertical taskbars, but i think 
it should work at least more or less.

Tell me if you have any better ideas.

Regards,

Christian