[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 melchoyce):

 Riffing off of @folletto's last mockup, I've tried out two different
 approaches:

 [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.

 [attachment:customizer-widget-presets-i3_widgets-in-accordion.png] wraps
 both the inactive widgets, and the regular widgets in an accordion. This
 puts the search specifically into the widget accordion. If you have a
 bunch of inactive widgets (say, more than ten), we could consider adding a
 search box specifically for that accordion as well.

 This version also explores what it could look like if we wanted to allow
 people to move currently active widgets into inactive. To manually move
 them into inactive, we could add it to the bottom of the move-to list in
 `Reorder`, maybe italicized or some to separate it from the widget areas.

 That said, I'm not sure we should add the extra complication of letter
 people move from active to inactive.

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