[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #6556: Impossible to move text/rss widgets between sidebars

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#6556: Impossible to move text/rss widgets between sidebars
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 Reporter:  bryan868        |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement     |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  Administration  |      Version:  2.5      
 Severity:  normal          |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  needs-patch     |  
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Changes (by Otto42):

  * priority:  lowest => normal
  * severity:  minor => normal

Comment:

 Replying to [comment:10 Viper007Bond]:
 > I was merely saying that this new widget manager is a huge step forward,
 albeit an imperfect one, and we shouldn't give up on it so easily and go
 back to the old multiple instances of widgets on the left hand side (which
 was rather crude).

 I cannot believe anybody ever said this.

 The 2.5+ widget manager is about the worst possible interface I could ever
 imagine for such a thing. The original one was a thousand million billion
 times better, because it was intuitive. You see a widget, you drag it
 where you want, wham blam, it's done. Hit save. No problem.

 The current widget manager has a bewildering array of contradictory
 options, and is the most unintuitive thing I've ever seen. I've had to
 teach *programmers* how to use the thing.

 No, I'm sorry, but in no sense whatsoever is the new widget manager
 "good". It never has been, it never will be. Regressing back to the old
 *code* would be an upgrade, but what we really need is to regress back to
 the old INTERFACE. Just the interface.

 Widgets should be dragged from where they are and dropped to where you
 want them to be. That's easy. That makes sense. The editability of widgets
 in-place is fine and dandy, but ''everything'' else about the current
 widget manager sucks rocks.

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