Per How to register layouts 🐛 Add missing 'label' key to navigation.layouts.yml Active :
The 'label' and 'category' keys are required.
This came up in 🐛 Add missing category to Drupal\layout_builder\Plugin\Layout\BlankLayout and let modules and themes alter the list of layouts Fixed and 🐛 Add missing 'label' key to navigation.layouts.yml Active . There was a thought to make the two keys required in the annotation to attribute conversion in 📌 Convert Layout plugin discovery to attributes Active , per #2 📌 Convert Layout plugin discovery to attributes Active and #17 📌 Convert Layout plugin discovery to attributes Active :
I think we should consider a BC layer where we add a label for unlabelled layouts and trigger a deprecation.
, but then it was kicked back to be done in 🐛 Add missing category to Drupal\layout_builder\Plugin\Layout\BlankLayout and let modules and themes alter the list of layouts Fixed , and finally decided to do a separate follow up, which is this issue.
The most direct way to address would be to make the Layout attribute label and category properties required, but some considerations:
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Added change record for deprecation.
Pushed a draft MR with the changes, will add tests later.
Are there uses cases where layout plugin derivers provide label or category?
The Dynamic Layouts module does. See https://git.drupalcode.org/project/dynamic_layouts/-/blob/8.x-1.x/src/Pl.... I know there are other similar modules out there too.