Thanks a lot Chris,
for your confirmation as well as recommendation.
I totally agree that a bit more of concentration would help but that is not my biggest strength to be honest and to say the least. I alway try to do things fast and even don't have in mind that some of the actions need more attention than others. 
But Peter's "Noted" let me really look forward to one of the next updates… 
Thanks also JMichael,
I know that it is visible before. But in some cases my text is just short and the whole action box long. And as already mentioned I am mostly not aware of the kind of action and if it needs my attention before dragging or not. And as mentioned, even bordering or giving the text area a different background color would definitely help to make it more obvious.
Thanks so much Peter. I am really looking forward to what you will come up with. 
Hey Martin,
thanks and yes, I also was a bit astonished as I uploaded my GIF because first it looked like it works. But then I recoginzed it was converted into a JPEG as mentioned. I really wonder why it now shows a still image again even though I edited my post and changed the image to a link on one of my servers like this…
Not sure what happened afterwards. 
Great. Thank you @peternlewis This one trips me up all the time.
And a very similar thing happens when I want to drag an Action that refers to a specific Application. I keep accidentally invoking the Application list when I just want to drag the Action to a different spot in the Macro. Maybe this is just me? But I still do it a lot and sometimes leave the Action set to the wrong application. It happens if the mouse clicks anywhere in this area, which being near the centre point of the Action I find myself always doing when I want to grab and move the Action...
These should be resolved for the next major version.
I can confirm this is now resolved in KM 10. Thank you Peter!
Oh really? Thanks @Zabobon for sharing the information. Then maybe there is either a misunderstanding or you might have a different v.10 of KM.
I will try and make a Screen Recording of what I am getting.
Okay - so, the particular Action that was tripping me up all the time, was the one "Activate Application". Clicking and dragging in the centre of the Action would change it to a different Application. That is definitely fixed now.
With your example, "Copy to Named Clipboard". I must admit that I never use that Action. I see that Clicking in the centre of that Action works as expected. But I also see that clicking anywhere on the same horizontal level as the dropdown list changes the list which suggests this particular Action has not been fixed.
Yes. In the meantime I also checked some other actions and can confirm that they are fixed now. Maybe it's just this one or some others that we might stumble over when we need them in the future.
Apologies not to reply quicker - it took me several takes to do the screen record...
No worries, no need to hurry at all. Great that it's probably just one or a small amount of actions that made their way around the fix.
Thanks again and have a great weekend!
Timeout. I've been clicking and dragging just under the gear icon so @Zabobon can you go further to the right? My thinking was Peter had to make room for longer macro names and clipboards per an earlier request. Can you try that and report back? It works on my system.
Try clicking under the gear icon to see if that works.
Yes, that makes sense. The Application names would never stretch to the centre so, that was an easier fix. The Named Clipboard Name might be quite long so the clickable area was left longer. But only @peternlewis knows if this is the answer 
You know how it is. On one hand, the click area isn't long enough. On the other hand, the click area is too long. My behavior has been click under the gear and I don't get push back...
I hope you find the resolution that you desire.
Well, this was not about to find workarounds. I am surely able to find workarounds by myself and already know what worked for quite some years now. 
It is (or better was in obviously most cases) not intuitive to use. When moving items like in a million other apps we are used to simply grab them in a blank area without the need to think of a precise "click or grab hot spot" (that isn't even visible as one). And the right side of the action's name looks like completely blank. So IMHO either it should behave like the fixed ones or if it is necessary to have a name field that even stretches above the width of an 30" display then it should be coloured differently so that it is intuitively visible. Here is an example with also a pretty long name that works whilst the one with a shorter don't.
Since Peter agreed to fix it I guess this is just a leftover by mistake and of course something like this can happen and ain't a problem at all. I just stumbled over it using the named clipboard thing but unfortunately I didn't recognize that it works in others.
In addition I think that the fix of some of the actions proofs that it there is no relation to the given name length.
[EDIT]: I will mark this as solved and then I'm out of here. 
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
The clipboard ones should be fixed in 10.0.2
