Cakewalk should be proud because we must be runing out of things to complain about. I have never had any trouble moving tracks - just grab the icon and drag whether it is big or small!
 
No...wait....I want tracks that know they need to be moved before I do and move themselves:)

My favourite hot spot is the space between the waveform preview and the track filter.

Anderton

Beepster
 It would be nice if the SMALL icons did the same thing.

 
They do. I didn't mention it because it seemed like you wanted a big target.
 
 

I'll try again later but I had litarally just attempted to drag from the small icon on a collapsed track just before posting that to see if it would move (considering the large icon drag worked). I had to drag the track out a little to hook into the hotspot where the large icon is.
 

The gap between the track number and the track name field is also "safe".  I would like it if the track number itself were draggable though.  At least you can do it relatively painlessly and without too much weird stuff happening (unlike some software...I'm looking at you, Excel!).

You can also rearrange tracks in the Console View by holding alt and dragging.

KPerry
The gap between the track number and the track name field is also "safe".  I would like it if the track number itself were draggable though.  At least you can do it relatively painlessly and without too much weird stuff happening (unlike some software...I'm looking at you, Excel!).

The track number area is designed so you can drag across multiple tracks to select them so that'd be a no go.

jb101
You can also rearrange tracks in the Console View by holding alt and dragging.

This I did not know and would actually be a better system for me in many cases... as long as it doesn't screw up folder placement (like inadvertantly remove them unless you drag them PAST the conceptual folder barrier.

Beepster
 
I'll try again later but I had litarally just attempted to drag from the small icon on a collapsed track just before posting that to see if it would move (considering the large icon drag worked). I had to drag the track out a little to hook into the hotspot where the large icon is.

 
I verified with the tracks collapsed to the absolute minimum height. 
 

Beepster

KPerry
The gap between the track number and the track name field is also "safe".  I would like it if the track number itself were draggable though.  At least you can do it relatively painlessly and without too much weird stuff happening (unlike some software...I'm looking at you, Excel!).

The track number area is designed so you can drag across multiple tracks to select them so that'd be a no go.

Or at least difficult.  Doesn't mean I can't want it :-)

Anderton

Beepster
 
I'll try again later but I had litarally just attempted to drag from the small icon on a collapsed track just before posting that to see if it would move (considering the large icon drag worked). I had to drag the track out a little to hook into the hotspot where the large icon is.

 
I verified with the tracks collapsed to the absolute minimum height. 
 

AHA!! The trick to making this work is not waiting for the cursor to change (which is what I've always done because just clicking in the track area does different stuff).
 
And even after you click on the small icon the cursor doesn't change. You have to click, hold THEN drag. Then and ONLY then will the cursor change.
 
I can understand why that would seem automatic to those used to it because it's probably an ingrained workflow. The fact that the cursor changes to the up/down drag arrows in certain areas just by hovering confuses fartnoodles such as myself into thinking the cursor must change FIRST before the option is available.
 
Simple enough now that I know it's there (and thank you for forcing me to explore it, Craig... this will make things easier) but this really is almost Easter Egg level procedure. Quite happy to know about it though. I hate Auto Track Zoom due to my high track counts so when I would do massive project cleanup/reorganizations I would have to drag out every bloody track, find the hover hotspot, do the move, repeat.
 
Now I can leave stuff minimized and just click and drag.
 
Cheers.