[ENH] - Increase idle timeout for JupyterLab Terminal

[kcpevey]

Feature description

The current timeout for the Jupyterlab Terminal is set to 5 minutes. This is too short.

My frustrating workflow:

I open a terminal, do some work, then maybe go over to a notebook and do things for 5 minutes. I then attempt to go back to my terminal and... it has disappeared. Now I have to open a new terminal, activate my conda env (which requires me to look it up because I can't remember the prefix), cd to the right directory, remember what I was doing....

This is an extremely frustrating user experience.

There isn't a very good reason for having this timeout set so low. Its not consuming resources by staying open. I would like it to be set to something much higher (or nothing at all - leave it open until my pod is killed).

Value and/or benefit

Happy users.

Anything else?

This is peripherally related to #1283 but I'm suggesting we hard code a solution for this now rather than wait for the "gold standard" fix of making it configurable.

[dharhas]

+100 this is super annoying and breaks my workflow all the time. Overall the the timeout for terminal should be set to the same timeout for jupyterlab. I would say 30 mins is reasonable for both. And has a clear location in the docs that talks about these timeouts.

Ideally, the terminal shouldn't timeout if I'm using JupyterLab. I'm not sure if that is possible.

This is also something that potentially folks should be walked through during the guided install i.e. default timeout = 30 mins but can be increased/decreased during the install.

@pavithraes @iameskild