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Please keep the thread on the list. The list is there so that one answer helps all users, not only one.
Sorry - forgot the reply-all. Have been using other lists lately..
Well, the behavior is somewhat correct and wrong concurrently.
If you are in icon view and you click neither on the Icon nor on the icon text, then you cannot drag, too. The same thing is in tree and list view. It's all the same.
The empty highlighted area in my opinion helps to keep the eyes on the correct row of the selected file when you want to look at the attributes.
But I have to admit that the highlighted empty area could misguide the user, that this area is part of the icon, too.
But to be true, you are the first user I saw who was misguided by this one. All user I trained on linux intuitively just used either the icon or the icon text when working with drag'n'drop.
Yes, But it was not only me. And i have been using KDE for two years already and this seems to me changed behaviour that can fool others. But then it is my responsibility to put something on the kde bug 'wishlist'. Thanks. Peter