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[Aaron Wells <1417362@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A few strategies that I've considered:

1. Move these settings to the block layout section instead of having
them in the block config. (i.e., next to the edit icon that opens the
block config, we'd have some little icon to indicate that the block is
collapsed/retractable)

2. Remove the "retractable" setting and only have the "automatically
retracted" setting, the idea being that users are probably much more
often interested in having a retracted block rather than a retractable
block. But a scan of the data in a large client site found quite a few
retractable but not automatically retracted blocks, so this probably
isn't a good idea.

3. Consolidate the two checkboxes into one control with three states
(off, retractable, automatically retracted).

I've pushed a patch to achieve strategy #3.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1417362

Title:
  Reduce the size of the "retractable" block settings

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Every block currently has a pair of settings on the block config page
  to control whether the block is retractable, and if so, whether it
  should start out retracted. Because both of these settings have
  descriptions below them as well, they take up a fair bit of vertical
  space, even though they are seldom-used settings.

  I'd like to explore some ways to make these settings more compact so
  that they don't expand the config screen so much.

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