#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 kcrisman):
> > 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.
I think that the 'live' documentation only needs the local browser and the
ability to connect that way. No actual network connection is needed,
just on the person's computer.
> > 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.
Thanks for clarifying that.
> 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?
That sounds like a great solution. You can finally remove that part about
OS X gurus - because you are one now :)
Great, really close now! I think the relevant file can be checked in
using `hg_scripts`, so you'd probably want to just make it depend on the
already existing `hg_scripts` change for `bdist`.
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