Why private status is only available in Bulk Quick Edit ?

[SirLouen]

Today, I was reviewing this ticket #36237, and I noticed something really strange (for me):

In Quick Edit for Posts, Private status is only available when doing a Bulk edit, not in single edits like Publish or Scheduled.

Looking backwards, I happen to find that this was introduced by @azaozz 17 years ago in [8973] on a ticket discussed in #6815. But I can't see any references to why he personally decided to add "Private" exclusively for Bulk edits, and not for regular individual edits as well.

Maybe someone could give me some light on this.

In fact, other patches like the ones provided by Ryan and Aaron, did not introduce this

So, unless I'm wrong, it feels that this was pulled out of the hat a little at random.

[SirLouen]

I forgot to reference the exact line where this happens

​This.

[pbiron]

I suspect it's because while doing a Quick Edit for an individual post there is checkbox for whether a post is Private or not.

I have no strong opinion on whether these 2 diff UIs should be reconciled :-) On the one hand, yeah, the difference is odd; on the other hand, I'm soooo used to the diff that I really never "noticed" it until I saw this ticket ;-)

[SirLouen]

Replying to pbiron:

I suspect it's because while doing a Quick Edit for an individual post there is checkbox for whether a post is Private or not.

I have no strong opinion on whether these 2 diff UIs should be reconciled :-) On the one hand, yeah, the difference is odd; on the other hand, I'm soooo used to the diff that I really never "noticed" it until I saw this ticket ;-)

I was so focused on the other thing that I completely forgot about the checkbox. Makes sense, the bulk editing version doesn't have a private checkbox.

Mystery solved