# Is undocking (detaching) a Gramplet more fussy in 5.2?

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**Created:** [August 10, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/is-undocking-detaching-a-gramplet-more-fussy-in-5-2/5854 "2024-08-10T14:31:38Z")\
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Has undocking a Gramplet from a sidebar or bottombar become more fussy? (The Dashboard gramplets have different rules.) Or am I mis-remembering?

I seem to recall drag’n’drop having more valid places to drop a Gramplet tab.

For undocking, there are:

- the [Title bar](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Main_Window#Window_Title_Bar) of the Gramps application
- a Titlebar of a floating (non-modal) Gramps window … such as an undocked gramplet or the Configure View dialog (listed in Gramps’ Windows menu)
- the [Menu bar](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Main_Window#Menubar) of the Gramps application
- the [Tool bar](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Main_Window#Toolbar) of the Gramps application
- the [Status bar](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Main_Window#Status_Bar_and_Progress_Bar) of the Gramps application

For re-ordering there are:

- the sidebar or bottombar tab areas within the same category view. (Allows changing the tab order when dropping on the tab area of the same splitbar. Also allows moving a tab from one splitbar to the other to take advantage of extra horizontal or vertical space.)

The (new?) invalid dropzones:

- the [Navigator sidebar](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Main_Window#Navigator)
- the [display area](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php/Gramps_5.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Main_Window#Display_area) of the active view category
- the display area of a floating (non-modal) Gramps window (listed in Gramps’ Windows menu)
- the display area of the sidebar or bottombar _**(Activating this key area that would make dropping seem less fussy. But it might have been disabled as a drop area to decrease accidental undockings when intending to resize the bottombar.)**_
- screen areas outside the Gramps application window or items listed in the Windows menu of the Gramps application. (Including second monitors)

I think there was a major bug related to dropping in the tab areas of the sidebar or bottombar when a different view category was active. And so that behavior was disabled intentionally.

This could also be a Linux vs. Windows OS difference. I was using Windows for most of the years I’ve been a Gramps user.

(Gramps 5.2.1 and Fedora 37)

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