Description

This issue is pretty edge-casey (and therefore low priority), but I noticed it while testing out #56326. When switching between the content only and template editing modes in the site editor (while viewing a particular page of a site), there's nothing that explicitly tells the windowing logic for the list view to update.

This means that in a page whose template does not include a Content block, if we switch to the template mode, and that template has a large number of blocks (enough to usually trigger the windowing logic), then it's possible to get into a state where scrolling the template does not update the windowing, and a user cannot see the items in the list.

It turns out the likely culprit is that when a template does not contain any content blocks, then switching between the content only or template modes does not update the getGlobalBlockCount used to calculate visibleBlockCount for the list view's windowing logic, and that value is used to figure out when to refresh the windowing logic.

To resolve this (likely low priority issue) I believe we'll want to inspect clientIdsTree which is returned by useListViewClientIds and use a change to that tree as an indicator that the windowing logic should be updated. We might want to be careful doing that, though, that we don't look at the value too frequently, for performance concerns.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

1. Create a template with a large number of blocks, enough to trigger the list view's windowing logic. E.g. 60 or so.
2. Create a page, and select this template, and publish it
3. Now, go to the site editor and go to edit this page
4. From the content view, go to edit the template
5. Once editing the template, notice that the list view's windowing logic does not update

Screenshots, screen recording, code snippet

In the below screengrab, we first load a page in the site editor which is using a template that does not contain a Content block. In this example, we assume a user might be intending to go to the template in order to add the block somewhere. However, after switching to the template mode, the list view does not update to reflect the windowing logic that should be used. (Note that if a user expands or collapses any blocks, the windowing logic will update):

Environment info

• WP 6.4.1
• Gutenberg trunk

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