[wp-testers] Widgets in 2.8 Bleeding...

[Andrew Ozz]

Does everything on the widgets page work as expected? Anything that feels 
awkward/hard to use? Any widgets that fail to save or bring js errors?

It's all AJAX-ified and all sidebars (including the Available Widgets 
area) can be folded to make it easier to use on smaller screens. The 
Inactive Widgets area is for storing widgets that are configured but not 
in any sidebar at the moment. Also when changing themes if the new theme 
has less sidebars than the old one, all widgets from the extra sidebar(s) 
are moved to Inactive.

Dan Milward wrote:
> I agree it looks very nice.

The look isn't fully completed yet. Hopefully it will look even nicer :)

> Does anybody know if a more advanced widget management is coming for
> 2.8 launch? We'd like to contribute code to that - we reckon it is
> important to specify which pages/posts widgets display on... kinda
> like slayers but with better UI :P

Don't think there will be any significant feature changes any more. We 
are getting close to first beta for 2.8, not enough time left. Also the 
code/API has to stay backwards compatible.

Will probably revisit widgets for 2.9 when (hopefully) all widgets will 
be using the new multi-widget class so we can streamline the API 
functions and add features without breaking compatibility.

On the other hand if you need more hooks, choose a good place that won't 
limit future changes and open a ticket. In the worst case it will be left 
for 2.9.