AiiDAlab-related things to be fixed before the next release.

[yakutovicha]

There a few AiiDAlab-related things that I consider important before making a new release of QuantumMobile:

• [ ] Rename the desktop icon: AiiDA Lab -> AiiDAlab
• [ ] Replace the rotating gears. This is how we do it in the docker image
• [ ] Fix the appearance of the OPTIMADE client: the provider dropdown list isn't shown.

[yakutovicha]

Concerning the OPTIMADE client point. This is what I see in the QuantumMobile:

And this is how it should look like:

The issue is related to the appearance of GridspecLayout from ipywidgets. The OptimadeQueryProviderWidget widget, which is derived from GridspecLayout, is not displayed.

[chrisjsewell]

Just to note here, after discussion with @yakutovicha, I have already found a potential way forward for the layout issue fix, in that I've noted in the debug console that ipywidgets does not seem to be able to find the requirejs package (a common Javascript package used for importing other packages). I'll have a look and see why it isn't being installed into jupyter's Javascript environment

[chrisjsewell]

Fix the appearance of the OPTIMADE client: the provider dropdown list isn't shown.

The issue here was that ipywidgets-extended was not installed.

I have not seen this listed in any of the app requirements, and the same with ipytree (is this actually used somewhere?)

I'm adding ipywidgets-extended to the aiidalab-qe jupyter requirements for now

(cc also @csadorf)

[csadorf]

have not seen this listed in any of the app requirements, and the same with ipytree (is this actually used somewhere?)

I'm adding ipywidgets-extended to the aiidalab-qe jupyter requirements for now

(cc also @csadorf)

The ipywidgets-extended package is a dependency of optimade-client, which is a dependency of aiidalab-widgets-base which is a dependency of the QE app. The ipywidgets-extended dependency is therefore only an indirect dependency of the QE app.

The ipytreepackage is a dependency of the aiidalab-widgets-base develop branch, but we apparently forgot to add it to the requirements. That would need to be fixed prior to the next release, so I'm proposing to add it in https://github.com/aiidalab/aiidalab-widgets-base/pull/195 .

[chrisjsewell]

thanks

The ipywidgets-extended dependency is therefore only an indirect dependency of the QE app.

but if this is not installed into the jupyter environment, then the QE app is effectively broken, so surely it has to be added in the requirements of least one of the base or qe app, or QM will never know to install it

[chrisjsewell]

Note currently optimade-client is installed into the aiida environment, but not the jupyter one, which is why ipywidgets-extended is missing