Unable to request inbound liquidity during initial onboarding

[davecgh]

Attempting to request inbound liquidity while you are also opening a channel, which is the exact scenario during onboarding, results in: channel creation policy error: already has pending open channel request.

This is almost positively protection against opening multiple channels because you think something is wrong since it takes time for confirmations, but it gives the impression that something is wrong to new users and they don't know how to proceed.

Here are three potential solutions:

• Make an exception to allow both channels to be in flight
• Queue up the channel creation (and make it clear with a message that it will be opened once the initial channel is active)
• Disable the button to request inbound liquidity (with a nice instructive message explaining why) until the initial channel is opened