[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 westonruter):

 Replying to [comment:65 melchoyce]:
 > 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.

 In addition to the ability to drag a widget to Inactive Widgets and also
 moving via the Reorder UI, another option would be to eliminate the
 redundant “Close” link in a widget and replace it with a “Deactivate”
 link. The “Remove” link can be returned to always be “Delete” instead of
 switching from “Delete” to “Remove” upon initial save, whereby “Remove”
 currently places it among the inactive widgets in core. As it was reported
 as a bug multiple times, it clearly isn't as intuitive as initially
 thought (see #27575, #39426). So it could look like this:

 [[Image(delete-and-deactivate.png, width=300px)]]

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