Posted by Remon on June 4, 2010 at 11:58am
I'm thinking of making a style plugin for panels module. this style will display panel panes as portlets; enabling collapsing and sorting panes, and saves panes state per-user (cookies based for example).
I searched a lot for something like this but I didn't find any, please tell me I'm duplicating an already existing module.
Any guidance would be extremely appreciated.

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sound interesting. have a
sound interesting.
have a look at the homebox module. It is like iGoogle, but homebox does not use panels.
Thanks for your comment :),
Thanks for your comment :), I've already seen Homebox but it duplicates what could be done by panels.
This seems fairly doable,
This seems fairly doable, honestly, especially after IPE goes in and there's the renderer becomes pluggable. That wouldn't be a style plugin at that point, it would be a full on render plugin, and would probably be a better choice for this. Search Panels issue queue for 'in-place'
This is a lil bit
This is a lil bit groundbreaking :D but sure it deserves a look.
Using Collapsiblock Module
Perhaps this is could help:
http://drupal.org/node/255718