Media Picker navigates into item without any children

[enkelmedia]

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

15.0.0

Bug summary

The navigation of the media picker needs some TLC. In the example below I have a Media Picker that allows only "Image" Media Types to be selected.

It takes quite some understanding of the underlying technology for the navigation to make sense.

• I can't click the big folder icon because "Folder" is not allowed to be selected in this Content Picker Data Type. So I need to click on the text to navigate into the folder.
• After clicking on the text, I want to select a Image - in that case I cannot click on the text (this would navigate into the Image), I need to click on the Image to select it.

I think there are several things we can do to make this better:

• Introduce some concept that categories a media item as a "container", this COULD be determined by looking at "Allowed child node types" on each Media Type. If a Media Type has any allowed child types, it's a container.
• If a Media Item is not a "container" clicking on the text should not "navigate into" the media item - it should probably select it OR open it for editing (but I think it would be possible to find better ways for that navigation).
• I do think that there should be a way to open a media item in a modal for editing right from the content picker.

Specifics

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Steps to reproduce

See above

Expected result / actual result

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This item has been added to our backlog AB#46083

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