[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26168: Empty sidebars missing some indication of "droppablity"

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#26168: Empty sidebars missing some indication of "droppablity"
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 Reporter:  shaunandrews  |       Owner:  iammattthomas
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.8
Component:  Widgets       |     Version:
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  ui-focus      |
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Comment (by azaozz):

 I personally prefer the highlighting of all drop zones. If I remember
 right it used to work this way in the very first implementation of
 drag/drop on this screen, when it was using Prototype.js and
 Scriptaculous, before we adopted jQuery in core. Not sure why we stopped
 doing this.

 It's true the user has to discover the "draggability" first, but having
 boxes with dashed border doesn't really help for that (if the user has
 never dragged a widget before, he/she wouldn't know these boxes are
 actually placeholders). On top of that these boxes are not visible on the
 screen initially as the first sidebar is usually populated with some
 default widgets.

 I know we lost the "move" cursor when hovering over an available widget,
 but the first couple of words on the screen (after the titles) are "Drag
 widgets". Perhaps we could also add a "pointer" for new users encouraging
 them to either drag the widgets or click-to-add from the available
 widgets.

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