Epic: New Project Wizards for Beta

[petetronic]

Description

The Positron Welcome screen (#2513) will include options for users to get started in different modes, e.g. New Notebook, New File, New Console, and New Project.

This Epic covers the "New Project" option, which will need to ask the user for additional information to help them configure their new project in a folder of their choice.

For Beta, Positron will start with a fix set of project types based on the language extensions we embed, but in the future, other extensions would be able to register their own workflows.

The high-level flow for creating a new project will involve:

1. Select project type.

Python: Untitled .py file
R: Untitled .R file
Notebook (Python): Untitled .ipynb file

2. Project type specific customizations could then be shown.

Example, for Python, the user would need to select the Python interpreter, whether they would want a virtual environment created.

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Sub-epics

• Project Wizard: Modal and UI interactions #2817
• Project Wizard: Create a new Python Project #2818
• Project Wizard: Create a new R Project #2819
• Project Wizard: Create a new Jupyter Notebook #2820

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Related issues

• Feature Request: Create New Folder w/ venv #1441
• Python: Enhanced "Select Interpreter" menu for Python virtual environments #1626
• Epic: Python environment management #1554

[sharon-wang]

Closing as the sub-epics for Beta have now been completed. The next phase of the wizard for the Release Candidate is captured across #3364 and the project wizard board.