#9873: Create Mac Application that people love to use
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Reporter: iandrus | Owner: iandrus
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-wishlist
Component: user interface | Keywords: mac
Author: Ivan Andrus | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: Karl-Dieter Crisman, Jason Grout | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by jason):
Replying to [comment:34 iandrus]:
> Replying to [comment:33 jason]:
> > One more problem I found. If you delete (or move) your .sage
directory, then there is a problem starting up the server since it
requests an admin password.
>
> Is there a way to know ahead of time (some file we can check) if this is
going to happen, and then send them to an interactive shell or ask for a
password or something?
We could check for existence of the .sage/sage_notebook.sagenb directory,
which is where the sage notebook is stored by default. If it's not there,
then the notebook will be created and the password will be solicited.
>
> > The same sort of thing happens if the notebook tries to upgrade an old
notebook (pre-2009 or so). The user is prompted to enter Y/N to whether
they want to upgrade.
>
> > The first problem is definitely a problem, since every new user will
have it happen to them.
>
> How often do you think the second will be a problem?
Not very often any more, though it bit my postdoc mentor over the weekend.
My guess is that there will be a lot of people right off that never
upgraded an old Sage version that will download the app and run into it.
But after that initial rush, I don't see this happening at all.
Maybe there ought to be a separate notebook_intialized() command that
checks to see if the notebook is initialized.
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