Drag-and-drop “Panels”-style visual layout editor?

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I’m a combination Drupal and WordPress developer and have recently started playing with Drupal’s Panels module — which allows you to create flexible layouts and drop content blocks (The Drupal equivalent of widgets) in place on either a per-layout or per-content item basis.

I’m now working on a WordPress project that would really benefit from this kind of functionality — is there a visual layout editor for WordPress that even slightly resembles Panels?

By “visual layout editor”, I mean something that can have text and/or widgets added on an ad-hoc basis to regions created by either dragging column widths or click-and-dragging selections (Similar to Adobe InDesign).

Edit: It’s a year later, so I’ve created a wiki answer below. The original question has been updated to reflect this.

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Have you tried PressWork? It’s http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/presswork.

This post might yield some interesting leads: http://www.smartfoxes.ca/blog/2012/04/11/top-5-drag-and-drop-wordpress-themes/

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