Gallery Block: Tracking Issue for Bugs and Enhancements

[jordesign]

In an effort to consolidate issues for the most used Gutenberg blocks - this is a Tracking Issue for those related to the Gallery block that may provide high impact improvements.

Bugs

• Gallery block refactor: Image block cropping tool does not work well in gallery context #29957
• Gallery block refactor: Caption toolbar is not dismissed when cropping image in place #30334
• Gallery block refactor: rotating image forces all images on row to same aspect ratio #30362
• Gallery block refactor: transforming to columns produces unexpected result #30363
• Classic Gallery conversion to Block Gallery is not done fully. #30698
• MediaUpload: cannot edit selected image in Add to Gallery view of media library #38363
• Gallery block: Empty space on front-end when an empty image block is added #39612
• Gallery: images stuck in upload in progress state  #39923
• Caption Elements: Settings don't work for galleries #41966
• Image captions in galleries hide rounded border #43586
• Use theme styles affects basic layout #45423
• Gallery block does not respect opting out of base layout styles #47948
• Duotone resets when change across multiple inner blocks #50045

Enhancement

• Consider a different caption style for image galleries  #8030
• Gallery Block: Missing 'Random Order' setting #9701
• User can sort images using an orderby setting in Gallery block #15370
• [Feature] Sort images + rearrange in Gallery Block #24578
• Consider providing a "white background" variation for Gallery captions #24896
• Gallery block: displays images only when they fall into the screen area #25729
• Converting a Gallery block into individual Image blocks while image files are still uploading will break the upload #29203
• Gallery block refactor: Allow selection of multiple images to apply block styles #30262
• Gallery block refactor: consider ghosting moving image on drag and drop, and expanding drop zone #30364
• Unify drag and drop behavior across Image block and Gallery block #32820
• Receive a prompt/notification when uploading multiple images - asking if images are to be added to individual Image Blocks or a Gallery Block. #33348
• Gallery block: explore alternative options for caption styling  #34403
• Gallery block: improve UX of drag to reorder #34827
• Gallery block: still upload valid image files if group includes invalid files #34830
• Gallery block: duotone settings lost between transforms #34940
• MediaUpload: Improve consistency in Add to Gallery view of media library with the gallery block #35130
• Gallery Block: Use CSS grid instead of flexbox to style the Gallery block #42240
• Gallery Block: Difficult to "Add image" when existing image is selected #47200
• Add a no style option to the caption toolbar #47813
• Visually differentiate image blocks from image blocks in galleries. #48375
• Improve UX for adding images to a gallery block from the media library #48417
• Allow adding a spacer block within a gallery block #52171
• "Attached Images" option in Gallery Block #53289
• The in-between inserter doesn't appear when the last child block is selected #53315

[annezazu]

Closing this out, along with the other various issues you created for specific blocks since it replicates filtering we already have in GitHub. Thanks for the initial push to make this happen -- let's just keeping using the filters instead of needing to keep these individual issues up to date.