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Increase the discoverability of uploading local files to Positron Pro on Posit Workbench.
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Description
Description
As surfaced in discussion https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/discussions/6735, increase the discoverability of uploading local files to Positron Pro on Posit Workbench.
System details:
Positron and OS details:
- N/A
Interpreter details:
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Describe the issue:
See https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/discussions/6735. It isn't entirely obvious how one should upload local files to Positron Pro on Posit Workbench.
It was suggested that a new upload button should be added in the Explorer pane:
Expected or desired behavior:
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Were there any error messages in the UI, Output panel, or Developer Tools console?
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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
Read discussion 6735 first, then inspect the Explorer pane entry point where file actions are exposed. The work is done when local-file uploading to Positron Pro on Posit Workbench is clearly discoverable through the Explorer pane, with the expected upload button available to users.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- desktop, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100