Gallery Block: Difficult to "Add image" when existing image is selected

[danielbachhuber]

It's difficult to add a new image to a Gallery Block.

The easiest thing to click is one of the existing images:

Once you have the image selected, you have to somehow know to click this icon all of the way to the left:

Only once you do that does the "Add" toolbar option become visible:

(Ignore the focused caption input, I think that's a bug)

As a user, I'd expect I could easily "Add image" whenever a Gallery Block or its children are selected.

[danielbachhuber]

The List Block presents a similar conceptual challenge: when you have a List Item Block selected, you have to figure out how to navigate back up to the parent block in order to change the list type.

[aisajib]

Similar to above^, the List block presents another challenge when you have the "Ordered list" selected and want to choose a custom starting value (instead of 1).

[mikeicode]

A solution for the Gallery block could be to add the same upload feature from the Tiled Gallery block:

[richtabor]

As-is, you can't add blocks before/after blocks with locked inner blocks (buttons, gallery, list, etc). "Add before" and "Add after" are omitted entirely.

Perhaps we could add them back in, but a bit more specific for these use cases, like this:

The same could work for the buttons and list blocks, where they are only allowed one type of inner block. "Add button before" and "Add button after" etc.

[danielbachhuber]

@richtabor I imagine it still exists because it wasn't ever converted to blocks, but I find this menu item of the Table Block to be pretty helpful (once I retrained my brain to look here instead of in the triple dot menu):

Another option to consider is showing a subset of the parent block's toolbar controls in a similar menu item on the child block.

[hanneslsm]

As a start, it'd be already beneficial if the Plus between the images on hover would be displayed, even if an image block within the gallery is selected (an not only the gallery block):

(By the way, I think that the animation is a bit slow and the Plus should appear a little bit quicker to make it more obvious, but this is another discussion)

[richtabor]

I think that the animation is a bit slow

Agreed.

if the Plus between the images on hover would be displayed, even if an image block within the gallery is selected

In this case, I don't think we should show the inserter based on selecting blocks around it.

[hanneslsm]

In this case, I don't think we should show the inserter based on selecting blocks around it.

How do you mean this? The columns block also has this behavior and I think it's quite handy. Even when a block within a column block is selected, for example a Paragraph, the inserter appears. Only for the Gallery, you must select the parent Gallery block, but it does not work when a image within is selected.

[hanneslsm]

I think I just found a bug. Ignore my previous comments.
The inserter does appear in Galleries, even when an image is selected. However, it does not appear when the last image is selected.