[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #19291: Widgets move to Inactive after clearing all widgets from sidebars

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#19291: Widgets move to Inactive after clearing all widgets from sidebars
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 Reporter:  lancewillett      |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)      |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Warnings/Notices  |     Version:  3.3
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                    |
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Comment (by PaulGregory):

 DrewAPicture said:
   I thought the reasoning behind "Inactive" was to save previously
 configured widgets that weren't in use. Thus, you don't "lose" anything,
 you just may have to reassign the widgets to sidebars.

 Me too. But not lancewillet, who filed bug #17979 "Avoid losing widgets
 when switching themes", which is how we got into this mess. It's from
 there that we get the usage of "lose" and "lost" to refer to widgets which
 are/were quite easily findable in what was essentially a Lost Property
 box. In some cases it may be being deployed with sarcasm.

 To recap that ticket:

 The solution to "losing" Widgets Not Assigned To Active Sidebars into the
 Inactive Widgets box was to forcefully assign widgets to active sidebars.
 First come, first served. Landscape AdWords banner from "Top Banner"? In
 it goes to first slot "Right Banner 1". In it goes! All shall have homes.
 No widget left behind.

 It was erroneously thought that the issues caused by moving back to the
 original theme would be solved by creating a backup of the widget
 configuration. Issues caused by that set of configuration being out of
 date were then 'solved' by introducing an expiry date.

 So instead of just having widgets being "lost" in inactive widgets, we now
 able to misplace them in space and time.

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