[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20988: Open a closed sidebar box and enable droppable/sortable in it when you hover a draggable available widget over it

[WordPress Trac]

#20988: Open a closed sidebar box and enable droppable/sortable in it when you
hover a draggable available widget over it
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 Reporter:  ldebrouwer   |      Owner:  ldebrouwer
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Widgets      |    Version:  3.4
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:  needs-patch ux-feedback
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 At the moment you have to explicitly open a sidebar box to allow it to
 except available widgets. In my humble opinion this is bad UX and the
 sidebar box should expand automatically when being hovered over with a
 draggable and it should accept the draggable to it's containing
 droppable/sortable as well.

 The obstacles to overcome:
 - Since the draggable in most cases overlaps the sidebar box when dragging
 over it ( unless you move really quickly ) it's hard to register a
 'mouseenter'. This could be solved by setting the 'cursorAt' option for
 the draggable.
 - Opening a sidebar box is trivial but activating the droppable/sortable
 only seems to kick in when the draggable has been released.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/20988>
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