TWO REPORTS, AND THE SECOND ONE WAS A DESIGN MISTAKE RATHER THAN A SETTING.
Media is pinned now, beside Administration. it sat at the end of the scrolling list,
which is the bottom of the LIST and not the bottom of the panel. it belongs in the
foot for the same reason Administration does: both are about this machine, while
everything above them is about the site's pages.
and it was LOCKED BEHIND A CONNECTION IT NEVER USES. `ready` was one global flag —
"can anything be opened" — and Media is a folder on this disk that never speaks to
fofos. so sections now declare what they need:
'connection' the site's pages, which read fofos
'root' Media, which needs a folder and nothing else
'nothing' Administration, because locking the door you fix things through is
locking somebody out entirely
`sectionOpen` is one function, used by the nav to decide whether to offer a link and
by the detail panel to decide what to render — so the two cannot disagree about a
section. that was already the rule with one flag; it matters more now that each
section asks a different question.
`/status` gained `rootSet`, a BOOLEAN, and stays not-owner-only. the nav needs the
answer for every account that can see the section; the path itself stays behind
`/_config`, which is owner-only. whether a root has been chosen reveals nothing
about the machine — where it is would.
the empty-state line follows too: "set a root location below to begin" before there
is one, "connect fofos to open the rest" after — rather than one sentence naming a
step that is not the next one.
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every section was clickable and every one of them showed the same connection form,
because the panel forced it and the nav did not know. nine doors onto one message
taught nobody anything and made a setup step look like nine faults.
so there is now a gate, `useReady`, and both panels read it. that is the point of
putting it in a hook rather than in either panel: a nav that offers a row the
detail panel then refuses is worse than one that does not offer it.
the nav DECLINES TO OFFER — a locked section is a <div>, not a <Link>, so there is
no href to hover, no cmd-click into a new tab and nothing to focus. rendering a
link and swallowing the click leaves a row that looks navigable and behaves like
one everywhere except the click.
the detail panel HOLDS THE LOCK, and it has to, because `?section=gallery` typed
into the address bar or arriving from an old bookmark never passes through the
nav.
one line of copy in the foot rather than a badge on nine dimmed rows. without it a
locked nav reads as broken instead of as one step not done: the rows go grey and
nothing says why or what to do about it.
THE CONDITION IS HARDCODED FALSE, as asked. the plumbing around it is real — it
asks /status, re-asks when the connection changes, and reports while it is still
asking — so switching the gate on is one line. it returns a single boolean and not
its parts deliberately: "all the info needed in Administration" will grow past
`configured && lastProbeOk`, and callers must not start assembling their own
version of it out of the pieces.
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