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+# Design of the Terminal Plugin
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+This document describes the design of the terminal plugin. This document illustrates how our research on personas and other
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+solutions translates into the design decisions made to improve the Terminal plugin.
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+## Personas
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+### Experienced Data Scientist
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+* Has a graduate degree in a technical field
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+* Has been coding for over 5 years in multiple languages
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+* Have used Jupyter Notebook alongside a text editor
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+**Goal:** Replace the usage of Mac's Terminal app, in particular when running Jupyter on a remote system
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+Some things they would do in the terminal include:
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+* Run command line git
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+* Run vim
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+* Run command line IPython
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+### Student learning the terminal in Software Carpentry
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+The student is a Junior statistics majorw ho is attending a cnoference which is hosting a software carpentry workshop. He has used
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+limited MATLAB and R in his statistics classes, and has been introduced to Jupyter Notebooks. He hasn't ever used JupyterLab,
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+but would like to use it to set up some data visualizations for his senior project.
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+**Goal:** To use the JupyterLab to showcase his statistical findings with his project team and professor.
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+## User Tasks
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+**Users should be able to:**
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+* Open a new terminal
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+* Close a terminal
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+* Close all terminals
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+* See name of terminal in the dock area tab
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+* Reconnect all terminals after a network outage
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+* Increase font size of terminal
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+* Decrease font size of terminal
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+* Toggle theme of terminal
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+## Other Solutions
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+* Should place "New Terminal" below "File Operations" because placing it on the bottom makes it difficult to find
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+* Add buttons that close all terminals, reconnect all terminals after a network outage, increase font size, decrease font size,
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+and toggle between black/white and white/black under "Terminal" heading
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+##What user should be able to see or do
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+* Find terminal commands easier because it being at the very bottom right now is hard to find
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+* More options to adjust the terminal visually
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+## Visual Design
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+### Layout
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+* Place "Terminal" commands under "File Operations" (Replacing the "Help" Section)
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+* Add buttons in listed order: "Close All Terminals", "Reconnect All Terminals", "Increase Font Size", "Decrease Font Size",
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+"Toggle Theme"
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+### Typography
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+Typeface will stay consistent with current typeface on command palette (Helvetica Neue sans-serif)
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+### Colors
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+Colors will stay consistent with current colors on command palette
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