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[Bill Huffman <huffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tend to think in structured form, not in linear form.  It is very
important to me to be able to order tasks and subtasks in an order that
makes sense to me - not alpha, not date, not lots of things.
Drag-n-Drop would do that nicely, except that it doesn't work.  If I
drag a subtask to somewhere, a line shows where I think the subtask will
drop.  But then it appears at the end of the list at that level anyway.
This makes it much harder for me to "think into the system" and I'd like
to see it fixed.

So, I'd say, when no column is set with an up/down arrow, tasks and
subtasks can be arbitrarily reordered by drag and drop.  Whenever an
arrow is made to appear, tasks are reordered into buckets depending on
the new criterion.  Within each bucket, the order is whatever it was
before.  I know this general concept under the term "stable sort".  That
means if I want to sort first by due date and then by alphabet, I sort
first by name then switch to by due date and I will get the combination
order.  If I want (as I do) to sort by outline structure, I can leave
the arrows off and simply drag and drop.

To go a step farther, I'd like to see the drag and drop order in the
work view be completely separate from the one in the outline view.  In
the outline view, I'm working from _why_ I want to do this task.  In the
work view, I'm working from _when_ will I do this work.

     Bill

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Sub-tasks should be ordered and orderable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345575
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Status in Getting Things GNOME!: Confirmed

Bug description:
In the normal view, sub-tasks always appear in the order in which they have been created. Drag & dropping allows one to reorder the sub-tasks but it's not stored. If you regenerate the view (change a tag selection for example), the sub-tasks are again in their original order.

Note also that order of tasks in the work view is weird with sub-tasks of a given task sometimes separated by other tasks. I'm not sure what the right order should be.