I understand the logic in that from a technical aspect in the workflow of saving layout changes (and being able to cancel those if required), but from an end-user experience point it is not that great. So...
Edit a layout, then edit a custom block and change its text. Save the block (it feels funny by the way that the button says "Save configuration", but lets leave that for another issue*). At this point, a new user would expect that refreshing the page that shows the changes they've just made in the backend would reflect those changes in the front end. That doesn't happen though. They need to return to the layout edit page (thinking that Backdrop "doesn't work") and then they see the "This form has unsaved changes." message that asks them to save the layout (#1656).
As I said, not optimal UX there.
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Thank you very, very much :)
Autocomplete Deluxe - best D7 pick autocomplete taging
It is already done, but there is not release: https://github.com/backdrop-contrib/autocomplete_deluxe I don't know what is its state.
Autocomplete Deluxe - best D7 pick autocomplete taging
Hi @opentype. Thanks for confirming it worked. It is helpful for others if you can also mark the answer using the "accept this answer" button as this will show that the question has an answer...
Page navigation also above the page content?