[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40432: Customizer: Should we stop contextually hiding features?

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#40432: Customizer: Should we stop contextually hiding features?
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 Reporter:  melchoyce    |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Customize    |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Comment (by westonruter):

 Note that contextually controls, sections, and panels are were developed
 in #27993 and #29758. The default implementation was that for them to be
 contextually ''shown''. So this is why widget area sections become hidden
 when the widget area is not shown in the preview. This isn't the only
 option, however: if you have the Widget Visibility module of Jetpack
 enabled and you configure the widget to not be displayed on a given page,
 then the widget will not be hidden from view but is rather given less
 opacity (grayed) to indicate it is not currently previewed. Something like
 this could be done for inactive sidebars, but yes, “this could overload
 the customizer and confusing the user as well.”

 One thing for sure is that the behavior for what happens when a
 control/section/panel becomes inactive needs to be configurable when
 registered, and it should default to completely hide the item since this
 is the behavior that existing theme and plugin authors expect. If a
 control/section/panel should be grayed out instead of hidden, then it
 could be registered with `show_deactivated => true` where it defaults to
 `false`. This flag would need to be taken into account by the existing
 logic for expanding/collapsing since when a section deactivates by default
 it gets collapsed if it is currently expanded.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/40432#comment:2>
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