taxonomy

I have been building a site that was designed by a very ambitious designer. One of the features she wants is to have two different 'types' of pages, one with a right sidebar, and one without.

In my mind, this wants to be within the same theme, instead of creating a sidebar and a full-width theme.

The problem is how to create this.

One idea I have had is to add a vocabulary that contains terms that can be used to determine the layout. Then use a phptemplate_preprocess_page() function to detect the taxonomy of a given node, then unset the variables accordingly.

I think it's time taxonomy module got some more love in core. Drag and drop etc. was nice to get in D6, but there's much more we could do. Also I keep seeing various taxonomy administration helper modules cropping up - which is good, but there's no core patches cropping up alongside them, which is a shame, so I'm starting this in the hope of generating some discussion about things we could do this release cycle.

There's three obvious areas where Taxonomy could use some help.

Administration:

Merging terms.
Moving terms between vocabularies.
Mass operations (delete, edit).