Hi, I've merged what I have so far into master, so you can have a look. Some links are still missing / not yet implemented, but I it is a first mockup, and the part about recent files is functional, already.
So - what do you think? What should we add / remove / improve? Am Thu, 07 Apr 2022 13:04:35 +0200 schrieb meik michalke <meik.micha...@uni-duesseldorf.de>: > > _Possibly_ also a list of data.frames in the globalenv(), aka "My > > data in this workspace"? > > very useful for people working with data frames. could this probably > turn into an issue for largely crowded workspaces with loads of data > frames lying around? i for once often collect those in a list, then i > wouldn't see them here. I left this out for now, but I did add a placeholder for "New data.frame()". I think that's still an important feature for first time users. So far it is covered by the "Startup dialog", but I think that one will now be obsolete (and one dialog less to pop up on first start is a good thing). [...] > if each of the sections on this dashboard page were like a <div> with > an id, it should be easy to make the layout customizable, either with > defaults in the global configuration or on the page itself (similar > to the TOC in results), with show/hide buttons for each part. The sections are separate <div>s, now, and the <body> of the welcome page has gained an id as well, so it can be special-cased in the CSS file. I added an initial layout based on that, but I certainly wouldn't mind somebody improving it. (Hints to the motivated volunteer: For the effective HTML source of the start page, look inside your /tmp-folder, while viewing the page. You'll find the current version of the CSS file linked in there.) > can we perhaps re-use the new output page mechanism here? i.e., treat > the dashboard like a special kind of output file with a fixed > location? it would then have to be recreated on certain events, so it > would have to be less dynamic by itself, but a rather static page > that gets rewritten and reloaded from time to time, and only when > it's active. The page is recreated on some events (when the recent files lists change, ATM). All of that happens in the frontend, however (R would not even know about a new script file, for instance), so the implementation actually ended up rather different, as just a few additions to the current rendering of rkward help pages. Regards Thomas
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