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

[Moshe Weitzman]

The 'lack of overview' is a general problem with much of our recent 
work. we changed our content types in this way. I am thinking that 
Contrib modules might be able to provide alternative UI which is 
read-only and fulfills the need for an overview. Eventually, those 
modules might be folded into core.

Dries Buytaert wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/
>