I'm interested in hearing conversation on this. Here's the original issue, which was mostly concerned with the stacking of the Ubercart dashboard page:

• Dashboard reorder #230

I hardly ever use the dashboard page. For my use cases, though, having the Configuration menu at the bottom is best, because I (site builder) am the only one who uses that submenu, while my store manager uses all the other submenus; so it's better to have the store manager's admin pages all above Configuration. (Of course, it would be even more Backdroppy to put the Configuration pages at Admin > Configuration > Store > ..., but that's probably too big of a change to inflict on Ubercarters coming from D7.)

At any rate, it's easy enough for site builders to move the Configuration submenu up or down. But if D7 had it at the bottom (and checking my old D7 site, yeah, that's where it was), I'd favor moving it (back) to the bottom for maximum familiarity to D7 refugees.

I've created a PR that moves it down in the menu by adjusting the weight.

A closely related issue is the position of the settings block (left or right) on the admin page at admin/store. This PR also changes some left/right settings to put the settings on the right and everything else on the left, which roughly balances the page, to look like this:

Or at least, it should; but it doesn't currently, because the Seven theme ignores the documented behavior of left and right and makes its own choices about where to put blocks. I think this is wrong, and have created this core issue to address it:

backdrop/backdrop-issues#5903

I don't know how receptive the PtB will be about changing the behavior of Seven, given its ubiquity, so perhaps we should wait to see how that issue is received before deciding whether to go ahead with this PR.

Not sure if this was mentioned as an idea before, but instead of relying on the menu order and then reflecting that in the placement of these "blocks", how about if admin/store was actually converted into a "dashboard" with a 2-column layout? That way:

• Ubercart could rearrange the menu items to what makes more sense (move the "configuration" item to be last by default, like the original report by @alanmels suggested)
• People could still reorder menu items to what makes more sense for their situation (but that wouldn't affect the position of the blocks in the store admin page)
• Each top-level menu item under the main parent "Store" could become "menu block" component, and these various store dashboard components could be independently placed also where is makes sense.

how about if admin/store was actually converted into a "dashboard" with a 2-column layout?

That sounds like a great approach. I'd been thinking of replacing the theme('admin_page',...) with something custom (but static); custom (but dashboard) sounds even better.