On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:21 PM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > There are a good many patches out there to address small aspect of >> > these problems. In #4886 and #4887 Timothy Clemans has some good >> > ideas for renaming some variables and making default save periods >> > configurable from the "Settings" page of the notebook. However, these >> > patches seem to depend on a variety of other patches, some with >> > distinctly different purposes, with #4135 being a major obstacle to >> > freeing up all the dependencies. >> >> > It would be great if somebody who understands the notebook, CSS, >> > templates, and file management were to take the best ideas from these >> > patches and address the core problems in one, or a few, pointed >> > patches. Unfortunately, I am not that person, but I'd be ready to >> > help and review work done in this direction. Done right, this might >> > obsolete several other patches and then free up others that would also >> > be welcome enhancements to the notebook. > > Yes, Timothy has done a lot of yeoman's work but the patches were not > reviewed and now they are likely bitrotted - and in any case have far > too long a chain of dependencies for easy review. > > I agree with Rob that these would be nice - particularly because it > makes *user config* easy. It looks like setting save_interval to > 24*3600 solves a lot of our problems (which indicates to me that > somehow it's not just open worksheets that are saved...) out here, > according to an email I just got - I am very lucky that our admin is > so supportive of Sage! I can imagine other places where that would > not be the case, and a faculty member or a not-particularly-adept low- > level employee was in charge of this, one who is not going to be able > to make it through server_conf.py. > >> >> I would just forget about all that crap, and write >> something so there can be at most say 30 snapshots for any given >> worksheet. Full stop. How those 30 are divied out is a matter of >> algorithms, but the simplest choice is just delete all but the 30 most >> recent. > > Something like that for a default would be wonderful (and please > please do the same with whatever controls nb.sobj). Defaults should > be made quite clear and then also clear where they can be changed - > which a lot of the patches discussed in this thread do, I'm not > suggesting that there is all this work which has to be done, more it > has to be organized. But it might as well be done right, after > William's very good ideas on this are implemented for the default. > Yes, I realize that volunteers myself for it... well, not until after > finals, that's for sure. > > - kcrisman
Hi, Does anybody here ever use snapshots? This is what implements the "Undo" button. I never use it. 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-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
