ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ICONS OF HOME SCREEN OF THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE

摘要

A method for managing icons of a home screen using an electronic device displays a tab widget to switch among panels of the home screen on a touchscreen of the electronic device. The tab widget including customized icons that represent the plurality of panels correspondingly. The tab widget is displayed on each of the panels of the home screen. A dragging operation on a target icon of a current panel of the home screen is detected. A target panel is determined if the target icon has been dragged to one of the customized icons in the tab widget, and the target panel corresponds to the customized icon. The target icon is moved from the current panel to the target panel if the target panel is not the current panel and the target panel has enough display space to position the target icon.