Two rows, one of them marked `soon`, for a distinction that was never the editor's to make. The path
names a real file and what that file IS is a fact about it — the site reads it off the extension the
way a gallery item always has. So the picker asks for a file and stops asking what kind.
`video` is gone from what an editor can create and still legal in the database. Every row was migrated;
one written by something older should still be editable rather than open nothing, which is why the
edit path answers to both.
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Both hold nothing, so adding one opens no editor: a dialog with no field on it is a step that exists
only to be got past. The picker itself answers the opposite way for the kinds that DO have a choice
to make, which is the distinction worth keeping.
The canvas draws no Edit button for them either — an Edit that opens nothing is worse than no Edit.
It asks the panel rather than holding a list of kinds, because which kinds are editable is the same
knowledge that decides which editor opens, and that already lives there. Absent means editable, so a
caller that has never thought about it gets what it had.
The Spacing dialog's label became a map. It was two kinds and readable as a ternary, then three and
not.
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The picker listed it as `soon` beside Image. It is not soon any more — the set, its ordering and the
carousel that draws it were already built on the site, so the block is a reference to one and the
admin's whole job is choosing which.
`GalleryPicker` chooses a SET and nothing else. Editing what is IN the set stays under Galleries: a
block that could also rearrange its own pictures would be a second place to do one job, and the two
would disagree. No thumbnails — every stored path names an original a browser cannot display, and the
plugin has no way to address a rendition, so the name and the count identify it instead.
Saved on choose, like a video and for the same reason: picking one thing is one act with one outcome,
so there is nothing to draft and nothing to cancel out of.
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The picker offers it now, and choosing it opens the media picker rather than a dialog. A video is a
PATH, saved as soon as it is chosen: free text needs a draft because writing is something people do
halfway, and picking a file is one act with one outcome.
Edit means whatever editing that KIND means. The canvas draws one button; which door it opens is decided
in the panel, where the kinds are known — so Edit on a video reopens the picker and Edit on text opens
the editor.
Image and Gallery stay named and disabled. Both are things the site already has.
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It opened the text editor straight away, and I had argued for that: Free Text is the only kind that
works, so a picker offering it is a click asking to be got past.
That was wrong in the way a shortcut usually is. It optimised the state of the app today and hid its
shape — somebody adding a component could not see what a component IS, or that there will be others,
and the day the second kind lands the interaction changes underneath them.
It is also the pattern this admin already uses. The nav lists unbuilt sections as `soon` rather than
hiding them, because a list of only what is finished gives no sense of what the thing is for. The same
argument applied here and I had not noticed.
Image, Video and Gallery are named and disabled. Those three are things the site already HAS — media,
video and galleries all exist as concepts here — which is the difference between saying what is coming
and inventing a roadmap.
The list lives in the plugin rather than the API. The API decides what may be STORED; this decides what
may be OFFERED, and it has to be here because every kind needs a label, an icon and an editor that only
exists in this plugin. A kind the server would accept and this has never heard of is not creatable
anyway.
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