Add help text to the widget pointing users to helpful info about customizations when the cluster is instantiated from the extension

[andersy005]

Instantiating a new cluster from dask-labextension is a really neat future. However, for users who are not familiar with configuring dask settings from configuration files, knowing how to apply custom settings (such as memory, cores, processes) is not trivial unless you know that there's a configuration file for this residing in ~/.config/dask/labextension.yaml.

Would it be useful to add some help text to the widget telling the user the location of the configuration file, and maybe a pointer to the documentation page?

Cc @lheagy

[jsignell]

This sounds potentially useful, but I don't think it's interesting enough to display all the time. Maybe there should be an "open config file" button at the bottom maybe (next to "shutdown").

This would make it also available on right click:

Another option would be to add a "?" button next "+NEW".

[lheagy]

👍 One other possibility would be to have an "Advanced" or similar on the main panel (next to "Shutdown")

[jsignell]

have an "Advanced" or similar on the main panel (next to "Shutdown")

And that'd open the config file in the main window?

[kyprifog]

Would this be the appropriate place to make a setting to modify worker memory size or cores?

[jsignell]

Would this be the appropriate place to make a setting to modify worker memory size or cores?

Yes, but it'd be the setting every time you hit the + button