Toolbar editing - big annoyance when dragging anything

2018-03-22 17:33:30

What happens when I unlock toolbar and try to edit it by dragging is a big disaster. I left my toolbar untouched for many years, but recently I rearranged it few times (new dropdowns available, new business laptop layout, new layout for my wife's laptop). And that was a big hassle!
Why when I drag something it always resizes? Why can't it be pulled out and float over other elements till I move it and release mouse button?
Why when I push something maximally to the side it never moves over squeezed element (it never pulls out and floats over, it never simply switches with that squeezed element)?
Why I have to drag an element to the down (making toolbar double height) and then painstakingly target it before other element to finally switch them in place? While targeting I need to do many retries, before moved element really hits its place before other element, and not after it, where it was before I moved it down, to temporary second toolbar line.
In a single question: why it can't work as in other programs, like Nero Wave Editor, like GoldWave, AutoCAD?

Toolbar rearrangement it is not something that you do on a daily basis. But when you need to, then it really hurts... Could it be fixed somehow?

Re: Toolbar editing - big annoyance when dragging anything

Reply #1 – 2018-03-22 18:31:32

Much of this I would say is because the toolbar is very much a native toolbar control and not some reinvention that your more skinned applications has, with the benefit that it themes properly and follows along with future changes from MS.

Re: Toolbar editing - big annoyance when dragging anything

Reply #2 – 2018-03-23 09:12:27

Toolbar reordering indeed sucks, even I hate it.
However it's been this way for more than a decade and I don't have time to rewrite this now. Possibly for a later update.
Thanks for bringing it up though, I'll keep it in mind when deciding on future changes.