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

[Nedjo Rogers]

[fleeting thought]

In a recent screenshot, I suggested an approach to illustrating the 
location of regions on the block admin page, see:

http://drupal.org/files/issues/regions_highlighted.png

But maybe we could display the block config listings in these 
highlighted places instead.  All that we currently do on the block admin 
overview page is:

* enable
* set region
* set weight
* link to configuration

If we moved to an AJAX approach like that suggested, regioning and 
weight would be easy and intiutive--just drag the selectable block from 
region to region, or reorder within a region.  (We'd need behind the 
scenes code to automatically set the weight based on block order in a 
particular region.)  Sans AJAX, we would need it to gracefully degrade. 
  Degraded, it might look like (caution, more ascii art coming):

  -------------------------
| Left Sidebar Region     |
|                         |
| Navigation              |
|  _                      |
| |_| Enabled             |
|  _                      |
| |_| Weight              |
|            ___________  |
|  Move to  |_________|_| |  [select box with other available regions]
|                         |
|  Configure              |
|                         |
| Syndicate               |
|  _                      |
| |_| Enabled             |
|  _                      |
| |_| Weight              |
|            ___________  |
|  Move to  |_________|_| |  [select box with other available regions]
|                         |
|  Configure              |
|_________________________|

If multiple themes were enabled, we would need to provide a link to 
bring up this interface in each of the themes.

Boerland Bert wrote:
> [screen mockup] 
> 
> i would love to see some -degrating- ajax like this [1] for block placements.
> 
> [1] http://www.cyberdummy.co.uk/test/dd.php
> 
> 
> 

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Nedjo Rogers
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