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Layout: `Session` pane may not be a particularly useful distinction
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area: layout
enhancement
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Description
@hadley gave us some feedback that the Session pane which captures Variables and Plots by default did not feel super useful as a pane. He requested that Session be removed in favor of just Variables and Plots as top level sections in the secondary Activity Bar alongside Help and Viewer.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file or test entry point is identified in the issue. Start by locating the secondary Activity Bar and its Session, Variables, Plots, Help, and Viewer sections; done means Session is no longer a pane and Variables and Plots appear as top-level sections alongside Help and Viewer.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100