What feature do you want in WordPress 2.8

[Jacob Santos]

Actually, unless they move the date up, there won't be much in the way of new features. Just enhancements and bug fixes. So right now, if you have 2.7.1, you are okay, unless you want to upgrade to a version that has almost a 100 closed tickets with enhancements+bug fixes. Not much incentive then, if 2.7.1 is working for you, then you won't have to upgrade again until 2.9. Well, unless a security defect is found, then you'll probably want to upgrade to 2.8.1.

[cobblucas]

I'd like to see a css editor integrated into the core. I know it's quick to edit on the local side, but it might be nice for a novice to have a visual online so they could hack up their css a bit.

[itsananderson]

You can edit the CSS in the theme editor just like any other template file. It's not the nicest interface, but at least it can be done.

[Jacob Santos]

Actually, okay, some last minute features and enhancements have been added. Jane is working with the core committers on the Widget page.

[Ryan]

I would have thought the widget page would have required a rather major update. Unless they're just doing minor tweaking.

[Kathy]

Little things like, being able to stretch the category box down like you can with the content box.
Bigger things like being able to create new files for your theme right in WP.

[tekzt]

@itsananderson
he meant a css WYSIWYG Editor with live updates, where you actually see what´s happening in the very second when you change

#header img{ border:none !important }

to

#header img{ border: solid #e90080 !evenmoreimportant }

I'd like to see a css editor integrated into the core. I know it's quick to edit on the local side, but it might be nice for a novice to have a visual online so they could hack up their css a bit.

sorry, but that´s what i´d put into the /wp-bloat folder. if you want live updates while working on your site´s css get the "Web Developer Toolbar" for Firefox. you can´t save the file from there, but you can edit it while getting live updates and if one really wants to work on the css he should at least know how to copy and paste

[chipbennett]

Actually, that would certainly be a move towards a CMS if categories ended up with the additional option to apply an image to it. So the same image shows up for that category unless other wise stated. I'd love something that like that because it would take out the pain of having to hand create 80X80 pixel images for the magazine look. I think Andrew wrote up a guide on how to do this but I don't know where it is.

I do something related, yet without a plugin. I just add some conditional tags to my template (if in_category(x)...) to apply custom content for certain categories. It's actually a pretty straight-forward method for applying category-specific content to posts.

As for the original question, I would like to see some work in plugin management. Specifically, I would like to see "categories" defined for plugins (admin UI, DB, posts, etc.), which would then allow for viewing/sorting/searching plugins by category.

[andrea_r]

I would actually love to see some theme management features coming up in WP. Themes are tagged, yet we can't access those tags in the backend.