posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
Double-click right column edge in data explorer to "expand/shrink to fit"
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area: data explorer
enhancement
frontend
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
This is an Excel-like UX affordance that people may expect given the spreadsheet-like appearance of the waffle.
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
Start in the data explorer and locate the existing right-column edge resizing interaction. Implement the Excel-like double-click behavior so the column expands or shrinks to fit its contents, then verify the behavior against the spreadsheet-like waffle presentation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100