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Profile reordering for Settings UI

# Description of the new feature/enhancement The Settings UI doesn't have a way of reordering your profiles. In the JSON, we're able to just reorder the array of `profiles.list`. Some considerations to keep in mind include: - [**New Tab Menu Customization**](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%231571%20-%20New%20Tab%20Menu%20Customization/%231571%20-%20New%20Tab%20Menu%20Customization.md): - allow actions in the dropdown - nesting profiles/actions in the dropdown _Ideally_, we could have a design that's future-proof. But since we don't know when the above will be implemented, we could just go with a simple non-future-proof design now, then redesign later. EDIT: We should also consider deprecating `hidden` once this is in. # Proposed technical implementation details (optional) A few ideas have come to mind, but @cinnamon-msft and I haven't actually taken the time to sit down and design this yet. I'll list a few ideas here, but I'm excited to see what ideas the community can come up with: ## 1. Drag and drop NavigationView's menu items Pretty straightforward. The idea is that you can drag and drop the menu items for profiles. ![NavigationView](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11050425/106053841-1d725c80-60a0-11eb-95ac-758887b344cb.png) Concerns: - knowing that those menu items are drag-able isn't intuitive. Maybe we could add some kind of gripper icon? ![gripper icon example](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11050425/1060

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Profile reordering for Settings UI

carlos-zamoraJan 27, 2021, 9:12 PM

# Description of the new feature/enhancement The Settings UI doesn't have a way of reordering your profiles. In the JSON, we're able to just reorder the array of `profiles.list`. Some considerations to keep in mind include: - [**New Tab Menu Customization**](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%231571%20-%20New%20Tab%20Menu%20Customization/%231571%20-%20New%20Tab%20Menu%20Customization.md): - allow actions in the dropdown - nesting profiles/actions in the dropdown _Ideally_, we could have a design that's future-proof. But since we don't know when the above will be implemented, we could just go with a simple non-future-proof design now, then redesign later. EDIT: We should also consider deprecating `hidden` once this is in. # Proposed technical implementation details (optional) A few ideas have come to mind, but @cinnamon-msft and I haven't actually taken the time to sit down and design this yet. I'll list a few ideas here, but I'm excited to see what ideas the community can come up with: ## 1. Drag and drop NavigationView's menu items Pretty straightforward. The idea is that you can drag and drop the menu items for profiles. ![NavigationView](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11050425/106053841-1d725c80-60a0-11eb-95ac-758887b344cb.png) Concerns: - knowing that those menu items are drag-able isn't intuitive. Maybe we could add some kind of gripper icon? ![gripper icon example](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11050425/1060

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