On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Rob Beezer wrote: > > Sure! The best of both worlds?
I do not consider this the "best" but rather a "lowest common denominator" kind of thing. I quite dislike the evaluate links scattered down the page, although I have seen many times that this is what almost every "new user" looks for first rather than discovering that shift-enter does the same thing. > This would put placement of the "new" function in the same place > it always has been, for both code and text. And it would give the > new user some idea of just what the blue bar is for anyway. > What if the bar included "evaluate" as well? ___________________________________________________________________ |______ evaluate ____|_____ new command _____|____ new text _____| And an option to "auto hide" the bar. The bar would be visible by default on new worksheets. If you clicked auto hide, then it would only be visible when hovering over it with the mouse. > Rather than "code," would "commands" make more sense to the new > user without sounding too pedantic or simplified to the pros? > I don't think this has anything to do with sounding/looking "too simplified". Simple is better and beautiful. This is about visual design - creating something that both looks nice *and* works well - an art that engineers (and apparently also mathematicians :-) often lack. Regards, Bill Page --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
