Super Fiddily to select the first media items in a media section to perform bulk actions...

[marcemarc]

Which Umbraco version are you using? (Please write the exact version, example: 10.1.0)

v15.2.1

Bug summary

Again, is this because editors have used Umbraco before and so their muscle memories, and well, actual memories mean they are trying to do things in an Umbraco 13 way?, and this 'new' exciting way is expected behaviour but is just the 'new way' so get with the program granddad... this is how all the cool new things work... if you know you know... they reported it as 'not possible' but it is, it's just Super Fiddily™

Back in the olden days in Umbraco 13, and even further back than that, if you had a Media Folder open in the Media section with a lot of images in it, you could select multiple items one by one and carry out a bulk action on it...

I don't know if you can cast your mind back that far, but there was a bit of a convention, not necessarily consistent throughout Umbraco but, if you click the image, the pretty photo part of the grid item, that item was selected - if you clicked on the text underneath the image - it opened the image for editing. (Now I'm not saying this is intuitive and I have a remember in 7.3 it was round the other way for a version... ) but it's what editors have learned to do:

Now in V15... possibly to unify all the things this has changed, but in a slightly strange way...

Now, now if you click on the image, it will open an infinite editing window to allow you to update or edit the image, if instead you click the text underneath, well same thing happens, it opens the image in an infinite editing window to allow you to update or edit the image....

... it's not possible to select it ...

ahh, but actually it is... it's just Super Fiddily™

what you have to do is position the cursor right on the edge of the image, there is a thin sweetspot, a feint border appears, then, then if you click, it becomes selected... but weirdly now the UI knows you are selecting things, you can click anywhere on the item, image, link text, white bit, edge anywhere and it will select the images... it's cool that it knows you are selecting and makes it super easy to select and unselect more items... but does this make the editor forget you have to do the edge thing first?

The video here starts out on V13 and switches to V15 to show the difference... so hang on in to see the issue: (it's not just click bait)

media-selecting-in-a-mediafolder-v13-to-v15.mp4

In short...

... is that first selection tooooo fiddily? or just something people will get used to... do I just need to get with the program - I've seen other UI's where they overlay a checkbox to indicate a selection is possible? would that give a better UI hint than the border??

google-photos-selecting.mp4

Specifics

Media section innit

Steps to reproduce

Create a Media Folder
And put multiple images in it
Then try to select a number of images in order to perform a bulk action...
fiddily to pick the first one...?
try selecting one, and then unselecting it and then selecting another
trying doing it quick
you opened the image instead of selecting it???

Expected result / actual result

I'd expect either clicking the whole image would select, as per earlier Umbracos....

... or it would be lovely to have an icon overlay or checkbox that would give the hint that the thing can be selected by clicking on the icon or on the checkbox...

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