[drupalImage] Setting to still allow linking to an image by URL even when uploads are enabled

At this point, this feels more like a feature request than a bug

EditorImageDialog is no more since 📌 [11.x] Remove EditorLinkDialog, EditorImageDialog and EditorMediaDialog in Drupal 11 Fixed .

But we could make this work for CKEditor 5. See #3222756-15: Allow using images from external source → .

In #22 I postponed this on 🐛 drupalimage CKEditor plugin should not require data-entity-uuid and data-entity-type when image upload is disabled Needs work . But that same bug fortunately does not exist for CKEditor 5 — we didn't port that bug 😄

Agreed that this is a feature request, not a bug. And it's not major given that >10 years of CKEditor in Drupal has only resulted in 25 followers for this issue.

But … is this truly worth doing? "Hotlinking" external images is problematic: the URLs may stop working, and/or the image at that URL might change.

Quoting the original reasons by @quicksketch:

- The user only has the URL to a managed file (e.g. right-clicked on an image and used "Copy image URL")
- The image is a theme-level or manually uploaded asset outside of Drupal.
- The image is hosted on another site (for better or worse).

Long-term, it may be best to fold this into an issue where multiple ways of selecting images are possible: e.g. Upload, URL, Media Browser, etc.

1. Media + Media Library in core combined with the CKEditor 5 integration have solved that since then
2. Linking to theme-level assets seems very edge-casey. External assets ("Digital Asset Management" systems or "DAMs") are common but … they are nowadays typically integrated with Drupal's Media Library 🥳
3. This is the only reason to do this. But then there's security reasons to not do that: it's always safer to download and upload it to this site itself.

So I'm going to be bold and close this issue. It didn't materialize for nearly a decade. There's been little demand from the community. And since then, we've gained Media Library in core, and a neatly integrated CKEditor 5 media embedding experience. I think the considerations that went into this in 2015 would be very different today, so the relevance of this issue has diminished.

If anybody disagrees: feel free to reopen! 😊

re-opened.
see https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3439275#comment-15558438 ✨ [drupalImage] only UPLOAD or LINKING possible, not both Closed: duplicate