[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39087: Customizer: Add indicator when additional widget areas are hidden

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#39087: Customizer: Add indicator when additional widget areas are hidden
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 Reporter:  shireling                            |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  4.7.4
Component:  Customize                            |     Version:  3.9
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-ux-feedback has-patch needs-     |     Focuses:
  testing has-screenshots                        |
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Comment (by westonruter):

 Replying to [comment:21 michelleweber]:
 > @westonruter, my preference would be to capitalize Customizer; it's a
 proper noun.

 I don't feel strongly about this. My understanding is that “customizer” is
 not supposed to be capitalized, as I think the desire was for it to not
 become a proper noun but a generic tool. There have been discussions in
 Slack about this, for example:
 https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBWTW/p1470890054003385

 That being said, there are at least 4 strings that use “Customizer”. I
 don't feel strongly either way.

 > Other thoughts:
 > I'd love for these -- in the absence of just being able to see all my
 widget areas at all times, which would be my preference based on my work
 with users -- to have added context. So in no-sidebars, that would mean
 also saying "The page you're currently viewing has no widget areas," and
 on the other two, it would mean including the instruction on navigating
 while in the Customizer.

 I see, so you'd like to have the “other widget areas aren't shown” message
 to include ''all'' of:

 ''Your theme has 2 other widget areas, but this particular page doesn’t
 display them. You can navigate to other pages on your site while using the
 Customizer to view and edit the widgets displayed on those pages.''

 > (My experience is that this is pretty (or: very) confusing for folks,
 and that it's not terribly intuitive (1) that you can continue to click
 around your site with the Customizer open and (2) that the Customizer
 wouldn't just be showing you all your widgets.)

 My experience is that it is also confusing for there to be controls shown
 in the panel for which there is no way to preview. This has been why
 contextual controls, sections, and panels have been added via #27993 and
 #29758. The customizer is synonymously known as the “live preview”
 interface. If you make a change to a control and you can't see it in the
 preview, that is also disorienting, and #39389 is about improving the
 discoverability of this by scrolling the updated are of the preview into
 view.

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