Context only knows about the current theme
Rowanw - October 3, 2008 - 06:35
| Project: | Context |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | yhahn |
| Status: | postponed |
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Description
Problem: In context UI, you can only assign blocks to the regions of the theme that is currently in use, for example if you have a separate admin theme then you can't build a context for the regions defined in the frontend theme.
The Blocks module addresses this issue by allowing you to switch the theme before adding a block.
#1
This is a known issue ;)
...We're open to ideas for the best way to solve this, and make the context_ui interface better in general. Personally I'm not happy with how the block admin interface throws you into different themes to setup blocks. I know technically it makes this easier/possible, but from a users perspective it's confusing and has lead to all kinds of admin confusion on sites I've seen.
#2
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#3
what I have been doing is using http://drupal.org/project/admin_theme to make admin/build/context use the frontend theme while using an admin theme for all other admin/* pages
What would be nice, would be to provide tabs for each installed theme above the blocks area in context_ui that changed the list of regions when clicked.
this way you would be able to have different block configurations per theme, and manage them in context_ui.
#4
We'll take a look at this after a stable release of the Drupal 6 branch is finished : )
#5
Added related issue here: http://drupal.org/node/443114.