Consider moving JupyterLab launcher entries to the "other" category

[ian-r-rose]

I find the placement of the launcher entries in JupyterLab in the "Notebook" section to be kind of weird, since they are mostly not notebooks. Why not put them in the "other" category?

[ian-r-rose]

Or, perhaps make the category configurable?

[manics]

I think other makes sense.

[betatim]

Is it possible to add an additional category? The Other category is visually far away from where people look :-/

[madsi1m]

I just made this, maybe it should go here? jupyterhub/jupyter-rsession-proxy#87

[ellisonbg]

Just ran into this - I think that JupyterLab should allow additional categories to be created by launcher items, otherwise using other would be helpful.

[yuvipanda]

jupyterlab/jupyterlab#8663 is also an option. 'Other' puts everything below the fold, IMO, so we shouldn't put these there unless there is a way to make it more prominent.

[cmd-ntrf]

I just finished reading the Jupyter blog post on Elyra and I found out they were able to add an Elyra category to JupyterLab:

The magic seems to be somewhere in here:
https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra/blob/master/packages/theme/src/launcher.tsx

So it looks like with ~200 lines of code, we should be able to add a "Proxy Server" category to JupyterLab if we wish to.

[ryanlovett]

Nice! Yes, I'm in favor of "Proxy Server" or just "Proxy" category.

[eddienko]

I like the idea of the Elyra launcher. Has anybody tried it? I will give it a go if not....

I do not like "Proxy Server" (it does not mean much to users!). What about "Applications" -- maybe if it is a jupyterlab extension the title can be also customised.

[eddienko]

I have done a quick start on this, but likely needs help. It needs a few things:

• JupyterLab 3
• The pull request linked above to be able to change the category of the proxy applications.
• The extension here replaces the default launcher and allows to specify custom categories: https://github.com/eddienko/jupyterlab-apps-launcher -- see screenshots there -- (I believe https://github.com/eddienko/jupyterlab-apps-launcher/releases/download/v0.1.1/jupyterlab_apps_launcher-0.1.1-py3-none-any.whl can be installed with pip)

The status is much WIP: "Works for me".

[MarcSkovMadsen]

My vote would go for adding jupyter-server-proxy items to an Application category (or one or more custom ones) just below the Notebook category.

In that way I could move the "Panel HighCharts Apps" to some more relevant location.

[claytonlemons]

Resurrecting an old thread...
I'm in favor of adding Jupyter Server Proxy launcher items to the "Application" category, as opposed to "Other". In fact, I would propose the following change to the launcher_entry config option:

launcher_entry:
    // no changes to these fields
    enabled: bool
    icon_path: str
    title: str

    // new optional field, where the default value is "Application"
    category: str

@eddienko What do you think?
I noticed you have a draft PR up. If you're OK with this^ proposal, would you like some help with making changes in the PR?

[psychemedia]

@claytonlemons @MarcSkovMadsen I'd +1 on being able to add server proxy applications to an Application or Applications area.

[yuvipanda]

Yes I think an 'Application' field would be quite perfect.

[ellisonbg]

+1

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[ryanlovett]

#453 enables the launcher category to be configurable. To satisfy this issue, the default category could be changed from "Notebook" to "Application".

[yuvipanda]

#453 (comment) feels like a blocker to merging that though - we may lose icons?

[bollwyvl]

Icons are fairly easy to build hot in the labextension... Non-svg can be wrapped as foreignobjects

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