Comments by WATYF (Top 1 by date)

[What you want to do is an UI nightmare. Don't try to invent UI conventions in Windows. It's Microsoft's job, not yours.]

For the record, the OP is not inventing conventions, and Microsoft already does this in toolbars.

Take the dockable toolbars available in Windows XP, for example. You can drag items around on the toolbar WITHOUT having to hold ALT (or any other key), and it works just fine. This is nothing new, nor is it anything controversial or nightmarish.

I'm trying to figure out a way to do this as well, just like the OP, because I'm looking to add dockable toolbars back into Windows now that I'm on Windows 7, which has decided to completely remove this functionality.

If I figure out how to reorder without holding ALT, I will post it here.

WATYF