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Grouped tokens should act like groups

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The current behaviour of grouped tokens is counter-intuitive: If you click+drag on 1 of the tokens within the group, the whole group will be highlighted, yet only 1 token will move. Also, this drag-move will ignore snap to grid. In order to move the whole group, you must first click on the group to highlight it, release the click, and then drag the highlighted group. This is against all other UI norms. The click+drag is the most basic way a user interacts with tokens. The most basic action should correspond to the most basic behaviour. And the most basic behaviour of a group is to move as a group. If the user wants to temporarily ignore the group, it the click+drag should be modified somehow. I propose 2 options: Use Alt-click. This conforms to the other Roll20 UI norms, where Alt key is used to temporarily ignore other settings. First click to highlight group, then click within group to highlight individual token, and then drag the highlighted token to move it individually. The current behaviour makes it very easy to mistakenly break a grouped formation. Worse, the fact that it ignores the grid makes it hard to easily fix a broken group formation.
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