As a site builder, I want to rearrange regions in my layout by simply dragging and dropping them into place

@jessybeach

Can you please confirm is this still active? I can drag regions anywhere in the layout atm.

#1 Are you sure? I just tested on the demo site and it only allowed me to drag rows (and sometimes multiple rows when they decided to get stuck together).

#2

Perhaps we should come to understanding first - what we mean under "anywhere".
I suggest starting from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek2eyWZPI1c&feature=player_embedded

I'm using git version of the module. In the current implementation we have regions vertically stacked from top to bottom. As far as I can judge from playing with Layout for a day, we can:

1) create/delete a region
2) rearrange regions in the stack
3) resize a region from the left, making next region to jump in the freed space to the left
4) resize a region from the right, making next region to jump in the freed space to the right

What is different now comparing to the video and what I personally find as advantage: we can't resize freely to the pixel level, as we can do in Flexible layout, instead region widths are aligned to the grid i.e. vertical columns.

what we can't do yet:

5) Group regions
6) Hide regions

What operations do you find missing?

Perhaps it's easier to explain visually.
For example if we wanted to move the left region above the header:

#4

Thanks for the graphics. Yeah, now its much clear. In the "desired" part there are gaps - places without any regions.
I can't say either they are good or not, just a thought - isn't it concern of region's insides to decide how to consume space?
In the concept video there were also no such gaps.

Present implementation part demonstrates a bug I guess. I think correct behavior would be: on dragging Left to the top only Left should be moved, and be resized to 100% width, while the Content should be expanded to the left.

Attaching image:

Is this correct?

Thinking about the gaps again I see no reason to not allowing them.
For example, in 960gs, adding a gap to the left is just a matter adding ".push-N" class to a region.