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.

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