Change default values for Layout Mode

[laresbernardo]

Hi! Great package. I'm starting to inspect it and it looks promising.
Is it possible to set a parameter so the Layout Mode is set to Container by default?
Thanks.

[bruceyyu]

I think it is a question related to graphic-walker, our core vis library. Could you please help evaluate whether we should allow this configuration? @ObservedObserver

[ObservedObserver]

For Graphic Walker, we should add configuration parameters to control default settings (such as layout mode, stack mode, and aggregation method).
For GWalkR and PyGWalker, particularly in RStudio or Jupyter Notebook environments, it would be more user-friendly to read these settings from global configuration files rather than passing them as parameters. This approach would keep the function calls as clean and simple as possible.
I'll create a task ticket for Graphic Walker with a two-week deadline. Once completed, we can update GWalkR to use the new configuration features from Graphic Walker.

[islxyqwe]

@bruceyyu you can pass the defaultConfig prop to GraphicWalker to set the default settings.
it contains same data as config and layout settings in spec.
In this case, you can use

{
    "layout": {
        "size": {
            "mode": "full",
            "width": 384,
            "height": 256
        }
    }
}

to set the default layout mode to container.