#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, John Palmieri | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Comment(by iandrus):
Replying to [comment:81 kcrisman]:
> Good, this seems to have fixed it on 10.4. I'll check it out on higher
one later.
Excellent.
> I noticed that if you bdist from a Sage that doesn't have its
documentation built, the first half of help pages don't exist. (This
could happen if, for instance, LaTeX wasn't in the path of the build.) I
don't know if this means they should be the live ones after all, which
build (just not as nicely) without TeX... not sure about this.
It would be good to always have the documentation. Perhaps someone who
knows more about the documentation could give some insight into what would
be preferred. The only thing that I want is that it be offline, i.e.
doesn't need network access.
> Also, it's not possible to use a browser other than the system browser
on 10.4 now. What is the connection between this and the Dock - that is,
why does it show up as a sub-preference?
If the application doesn't show up in the dock then the windows don't
belong to any application (like the Preferences window now). I think this
would be extremely confusing and nearly impossible to work with. It's
okay for Preferences because it's a single window.
Replying to [comment:83 kcrisman]:
> Ok, I've tested many version of this on OS X 10.4 PPC and 10.6 Intel,
and I think that the following needs to be done for positive review:
> * Do something about the README issue. This is necessary.
Can we just change the OS X README to have a section about Sage.app and a
section for the case that it's not created since it will still be possible
to create a binary distribution without Sage.app?
> * Find someone with an OS X 10.5 machine to test whether the bdisting
works there too. I think Marshall has one...
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