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The projects should be ordered in opening order: the last open project is placed at the bottom. The user can use DnD to change ordering of projects - this is persistent across session.
Is there any KB-accessible way of reordering projects? D&D is not good for A11Y. Adding Trung to CC since I remember him specifically saying we should never do such a thing. :-)
Correct, I don't like the idea much. What is the use case? In a file explorer, I also don't have the option to "reorder" the folders/files I see. I can change the sort order, say according to name, last-modified, etc. Good enough. DnD is actually not alwasy that easy to use. It's intuitive when the situation clearly invites the user to drag things around (form editor for example). Otherwise the program must use it _consistently_. If we allow DnD in Projects tab, we have to do it in Files tab and All Files/Favorites and perhaps also in Runtime. If we allow it for top level nodes we'd have to do for second, third, forth level nodes as well.
It was intended only for the Projects tab, and only for top-level nodes (i.e. projects). The idea was that when you open a set of projects with dependencies, they will tend to stay together in a clump so you can more easily close them all together. Personally I have no strong feeling about the modified default order though I slightly prefer the alphabetical order since it makes it easier to find what you are looking for quickly when you have a lot of projects open. I definitely dislike offering an explicit reorder action. Petr please don't work on this issue right now, and we will discuss more on Wednesday.
The final resolution was not to implement this due to possible usability problems. I Think.
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