Its true, new users love the evaluate button. It would be nice to have an expert mode, or perhaps "elegant" mode, that turned that off. But for beginners, I like the idea of an "annotate" button on the right, opposite the evaluate button.
-Marshall On Feb 18, 3:31 pm, Bill Page <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
