[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #17979: Avoid losing widgets when switching themes

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#17979: Avoid losing widgets when switching themes
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 Reporter:  lancewillett                         |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  high                                 |   Milestone:  3.3
Component:  Widgets                              |     Version:  2.9
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-feedback has-patch needs-testing  |
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Comment (by azaozz):

 I'm still not sure about all the inactive sidebars. What can the users do
 with them? The logical thing would probably be to be able to replace an
 active sidebar with an inactive. However that is pretty easy to do by
 dragging the widgets around. Not sure it warrants the added UI complexity.

 Having the widgets magically reappear when switching to the previous theme
 is very neat, but showing most sidebars from the previous theme as
 inactive at exactly the same place (when switching from theme with 5
 sidebars (twenty eleven) to theme with only one sidebar) seems quite
 confusing even if we make them different color.

 If we have to have them perhaps we should move them between the Available
 Widgets and Inactive Widgets and make them different color. That would at
 least signify the "inactive" status.

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