Stack (Group block) variation: Explore hiding the wrap to multiple lines control

[andrewserong]

What problem does this address?

In the Stack variation of the Group block we currently display the "Allow to wrap to multiple lines" control. However, in the Stack variation, where elements are displayed in a vertical stack, this toggle doesn't appear to do anything since inner blocks are already arranged vertically.

What is your proposed solution?

Let's explore whether it would be helpful to hide the "Allow to wrap to multiple lines" toggle for the Stack variation.

Possible avenues for determining when to hide the control, as it is provided by the Layout block support:

• Should we hide it when the Flex layout uses a vertical orientation? Or, are there cases for other blocks where this will do something.
• If it shouldn't be hidden for vertical orientations for all blocks, do we need to somehow check that the variation supports this value?

[jasmussen]

Good ticket. While the control is immensely useful for horizontal containers, it definitely seems less so for the stack.

One of the challenges with this control is that it has massive prominence in the inspector, but probably it isn't something you should touch most of the time. In the past we handled similar situations with the ToolsPanel, allowing the control to exist for a block, but be hidden by default. Is that something which might work for these blocks as well?

[andrewserong]

Thanks! Switching over to the ToolsPanel could be a useful idea for the future, particularly for hiding the content and wide size controls by default, which @tellthemachines has mentioned (and seems to link nicely to #36082).

After thinking about this a little further, it'd actually be useful for the Stack (or one day possibly Cover block) to still have this toggle available, if it was using a fixed height. E.g. imagine a Stack block with a height block support control, where you could set a fixed height, and then have child blocks that reach that height then wrap around to another column.

For the moment, I think maybe let's leave the control visible as-is, since Stack defaults to it being switched on to wrap, and we could re-visit when we look at height block support again.

[jasmussen]

The tools panel would allow the control to be available on both, if reduced in prominence by not being shown by default 👍