[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27404: Widget Customizer: Allow adding inactive widgets to widget areas

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#27404: Widget Customizer: Allow adding inactive widgets to widget areas
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 Reporter:  westonruter                          |       Owner:  melchoyce
     Type:  feature request                      |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  4.8
Component:  Widgets                              |     Version:  3.9
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-feedback has-patch has-           |     Focuses:  ui,
  screenshots                                    |  javascript
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Comment (by westonruter):

 > [attachment:customizer-widget-presets-i3_inactive-at-top.png] wraps the
 inactive widgets in an accordion at the top of the screen. I think this is
 a little more discoverable than putting them at the bottom. If you only
 have a couple inactive widgets (say, less than five), the accordion can be
 open by default. If you have more than five, we can collapse it by
 default. Search looks through both inactive and regular widgets.

 I think I like this more than the second one. I think there should be only
 one search box, and that should include both inactive and available
 widgets.

 I do still think that inactive widgets widgets should be positioned below
 the available widgets, however. I believe the vast majority of the time
 users are going to be going there to add a new available widget rather
 than add an inactive widget, so I worry about the inactive widgets being
 constantly up there in the way (especially if not in an accordion). There
 is also the parity with the widgets admin screen, where the inactive
 widgets appear below the available wigets. On the other hand, when
 previewing a theme switch I think in this case users would likely most
 often need to be re-positioning the newly-inactive widgets as opposed to
 adding new widgets, and in that case it would make more sense for inactive
 wigets to appear at the top for easy visibility and access. But, I'm
 doubtful that having the inconsistent top/bottom positioning would be a
 good design choice either,

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