Add ability to reorder home screen icons

[neckcen]

Unless I missed it, there is currently no way to swap icon positions on the home screen. Additionally new icons get added top left, pushing others right. This makes it very tedious to organise the icons and even worse to keep them organised.

[Lonami]

Currently, the icons are sorted automatically (which actually, should allow for a quick look up, since an application starting with Z will be at the end). Multiple things should be changed in order to enable that:

• A database rewrite (already planned, so good point to remember).
• Detecting where the icon was dropped to determine the position.
• Should the icons below be pushed to the right? Swapped?

Anyway, I also find it a good addition; but perhaps as a setting (sort applications by label, install date, or don't sort).

[neckcen]

As far as I can tell, my icons (on the home screen, not the drawer) are not sorted at all, they just stay in the order I added them (e.g. adding "Dialer" after "Contacts" results in "Dialer, Contacts" order).

Regarding quick lookup: I am not looking up apps on my home screen, I know where they are. If I want to start a call, I will tap a precise position on my screen, not look for the dialer app then tap it. This is why apps' positions changing is annoying to me.

Note that the grid resize is also a bother in that regard, but I cannot think of a better solution and it does not happen as often once you have a few apps.

[Lonami]

Sorry, I missed that you specified home screen, and I was not fully aware of it. We still need to discuss good-enough alternatives, and some more internal changes are required first before we can step any further. However, this is a feature that personally I would also like to see, but we have to be patient!