Playing nicely with Kit? [#959316]

Current Kit specification - http://drupal.org/project/kit - holds that:

Drupal's theme layer allows themes to implement any number of custom regions and
omit ones referenced by the default core theme Garland. A feature should one of
the following regions for blocks critical to its functionality and can expect a
compliant theme to support them.

- `content`: The main page content region.
- `left`: The lefthand sidebar.
- `right`: The righthand sidebar.

Other regions may be used for non-critical blocks.

Currently, therefore, it seems that implementing kit-compliant features in fusion-based themes is not possible, since sidebar_first and sidebar_last are hard-coded into Fusion. I'd like to propose making $left an alias for $sidebar_first in the template.php file, and $right correspondingly for $sidebar_last.

Comments

Comment #1

stephthegeek CreditAttribution: stephthegeek commented 1 November 2010 at 21:54

Version:	6.x-1.x-dev	»
Category:	bug	» feature
Status:	Active	» Postponed

Not possible in D6 due to the region naming (ours are not the standard left/right so they can be RTL-compatible) but we're aware of the Kit specification and will look at it for D7.

Comment #2

stephthegeek CreditAttribution: stephthegeek commented 1 April 2011 at 00:36

Version:		» 7.x-1.x-dev
Assigned:	Unassigned	» aquariumtap
Status:	Postponed	» Active

Comment #3

aquariumtap CreditAttribution: aquariumtap commented 1 April 2011 at 15:54

To make sure I'm following: by "alias", we're talking about adding "left" and "right" indexes to the $variables array passed to theme preprocess functions, and they'll be copies of our existing regions (sidebar_first, sidebar_last). That sounds reasonable to me, if that's all we need for Kit compliance.

As an aside: renaming these regions entirely would be easy from a code perspective, but we have quite a bit of documentation that refers to sidebar_first and sidebar_last.

Comment #4

stephthegeek CreditAttribution: stephthegeek commented 1 April 2011 at 16:59

I haven't looked into it but I would assume that in D7, Kit goes to the new Drupal standard for region naming, which we're already in alignment with. I'm just not sure what else Kit compliance involves.