Hexagon plugin architecture conflicts with Panels 3 [#837158]

It's possible to define a new Panels 3 layout plugin through the theme info file. Unfortunately, Panels (really CTools?) attempts to use the same 'plugin' namespace as Hexagon. The result is the following message from Hexagon:
"The theme plug-in key 'Array' was not set to any available plug-in. Check the .info file for the active theme."

It probably makes more sense for Hexagon to work around this than it does for Panels.

Here is documentation on the Panels feature: http://drupal.org/node/495654

Comment	File	Size	Author
#2	hexagon-837158.patch	1.5 KB	dvessel

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Comment #1

dvessel CreditAttribution: dvessel commented 25 June 2010 at 14:43

Thanks for the heads up. I'll look into this.

Comment #2

dvessel CreditAttribution: dvessel commented 25 June 2010 at 17:28

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» Needs review

File	Size
hexagon-837158.patch	1.5 KB

This does two things. There's a new namespace of "hex plugins" to be used for all future versions. It also checks the array structure for the generic "plugins" key to see if it's specific to hexagon since it's always a flat array.

I'm assuming here that the CTools/Panels way of defining plugin settings will always be multi-dimentional but I'm not 100% sure.

I hope this will solve it as I don't want to change the "plugins" key outright and break any themes.

Panels+CTools