Dear UX experts, my question is in the direction of the “focus mode” or “zen mode” that was discussed a few days ago, although we don’t want to go that far. We often hear that students are a bit intimidated by the amount of menus and sidebars that jupyterlab shows by default. We’d like to reduce t…

Hi Ernst, thanks for opening this thread. We have heard feedback similar to this and are working to dive deeper into the underlying issues, so we can design ways to address the issue. Do you have more specific information you can share, such as written feedback from the end users, more details about…

Thanks for the reply, ellisonbg. This request came up during the evaluation of a first test phase introducing JupyterLab for the computer science and math classes at our high school (planned for age ~15+ years). A colleague and I are in charge of improving the JupyterLab setup through integrated tut…

@choldgraf Yes, I was aware of the “focus mode” discussion. But where in the discussion do you see a potential solution? We were hoping that we could benefit from the design that “Everything in Jupyterlab is an extension”. We’d like to disable the extensions that show the command palette, the Open …

We appreciate you sharing your feedback @ernstch . @markellekelly , @marisaaquilina , and I are working towards a set of related goal you mentioned. This feedback is important to our team as we want to hear about the needs of real users. We are hoping to address the needs of a wide range of users who …

Another point that has come up in recent conversations: converting the JupyterLab command palette to being a modal overlay (more similar to VSCode) would provide a simple way to provide more full featured functionality in the minimal layout, without needing the L side panel. We would like to make th…

I’m glad that you mentioned this as this has been something similar to what the interns have to talking about. We would be interested in what y’all had in mind.

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choldgraf July 13, 2019, 3:23am 3

@ernstch you may also want to check out Focus Mode (Intern Project) which describes a similar set of needs and potentially a similar solution

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