[drupal-devel] [feature] Enable multiple block regions (not just "left" and "right" sidebars)

[Dries Buytaert]

> Well, assuming the general approach taken in the patch, this  
> (moving block location to the individual block config pages) does  
> seem like the most promising proposal so far to improving the admin  
> UI while maintaining multiple themes.  Assuming two enabled themes,  
> on the block's config page it might look something like:
>
>    _________
> --|Placement|-------------------------------------------------------
> |              _________ _                                         |
> | Bluemarine  |_________|_| [select box with Bluemarine's regions] |
> |              _________ _                                         |
> | Blix        |_________|_| [select box with Blix's regions]       |
> |                                                                  |
> | For each enabled theme, select the region you want this block to |
> | appear in.                                                       |
> |__________________________________________________________________|
>
> If there is only one enabled theme, we might simplify this to:
>            _________ _
> Placement |_________|_| [select box with default theme's regions]

That is what I had in mind.  The /only/ drawbacks are that it takes  
quite a few clicks to layout your blocks, that the administrator will  
no longer have a good overview, and that it gets us further away from  
http://www.cyberdummy.co.uk/test/dd.php.  Food for thought.

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