Sure, having an extra button is ok. I didn't like where the other one was. But when you go to slideshow mode, you have a button that says "worksheets" and another that says "worksheet". Were I looking at that for the first time, it'd be a real WTF.
I hadn't intentionally taken out the bit where the left pane was hidden when the browser starts up, but I probably would have if I'd seen it. I'll work it with some cookies so that whenever you hide/show the bar, it 'remembers' that -- so when you switch worksheets, the bar stays shown/hidden. Default has gotta be "on" for new users. The next version of the notebook is going to come with some major changes. 1) The server will be handled by Twisted 2) The browser will continually (~1sec) poll the server for updates (re: google spreadsheets) 3) When updates are detected by the poll, they'll be individually downloaded by the client if the client chooses to ask 4) User authentication will be done on a better scale -- and the users will be able to download and edit a "profile" which will remember a) Whether or not to show the left pane b) Whether to start as a worksheet or slideshow c) Preferred key controls This file will then be uploadable to another server -- so I can change my settings on my local machine, and then update them on sage.math, too. 5) Every link will be able to be controlled by the keyboard I'll put this up on the wiki. On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, William Stein wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:13:35 -0800, Robert Bradshaw > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I think you should at least have some "hover" text on that bar. Also, >> if it doesn't even come up by default, I doubt many people will even >> know it exists (I'm in favor of having an actual button, maybe (will >> this look tacky?) some pale sideways text up the left bar? Or at >> least make the bar look like it should/could be clicked on--not that >> it's empty space. > > The bar on the left is too difficult to click on. It's easy to accidently > click and miss and hit a window behind the web browser, or conversely to > accidently click on some text in one of the control panels when that is > there. > Also, using the same 'blue color to insert' theme is misleading, since > we're not inserting anything. > > I like just having a button on the top right to toggle the left > control panel, and/or putting thigns back like they were with > a button next to the worksheet name. > > William > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
