Layout: `Session` pane may not be a particularly useful distinction

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Layout: `Session` pane may not be a particularly useful distinction #3049

Open DavisVaughan opened 6 months ago

DavisVaughan commented 6 months ago

@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.

hadley commented 6 months ago

Reasons why I think this make sense:

To me, viewer and plots should be at the same level of hierarchy
It's hard to tell what "session" means
It gives more space for plots

petetronic commented 5 months ago

You could always dock them separately, and perhaps we could find a new name for Session, but we need to have them in this arrangement for four pane data science layout (in this mode, users can see plots and variables at the same time, and the total vertical height isn't very useful for most plots).

Perhaps the soon to be added "Side by Side" layout will be closer to the way you work?

hadley commented 5 months ago

Is showing plots and variables at the same time something people actually want? Or are we just copying it from RStudio?

jthomasmock commented 5 months ago

I also just want to note that moving all of the sub-components (viewer, variables, plots) out of the Session pane will then prevent you from adding them back.

https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/assets/29187501/6441172e-e202-44e2-95ce-b6d76b1df5c9