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Both Safari and Terminal gained drag and drop repositioning of tabs in Leopard. (True, Safari 3 also installs on Tiger as well as Microsoft Windows, but I’ve only used the new tab features under Leopard.) Since there has been discussion of the gestures required to reorder tabs within a window vs. drag them into new windows entirely, I wondered if the same was true for Terminal. (See Safari’s tab dragging modes and Safari 3.0: Dragging tabs up or down to move them sideways for more.)

Sure enough, I see the same results:

• The first tab in a Terminal window can be reordered, made into a new window, or added to an existing window by dragging up, down, or left — but not to the right.
• Dragging any other tab left or right as the first gesture only lets me reorder the tab within the same window.
• Dragging any other tab up or down as the first gesture only lets me move it to a new window or add it as a tab in an existing window. Unlike in Safari — where a thumbnail of a Web page is rendered for drag and drop — I see an entire Terminal window rendered transparently at full size until it is dropped in the new location.

So, perhaps there is some grand design at work here, and this odd user interface is actually intentional. (It’ll probably get tied to some multi-touch trackpad action soon, right?)