Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

On Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 6:11:44 PM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: > I have just spent all afternoon wrestling with themes. All is now well. I have something that looks great on both Windows and Ubuntu. Except for a few tweaks the result is just as before. This comment

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 11:55 AM, Terry Brown wrote: > ​​ I just want to point out that the ​ ​ problem identified here is @settings / myLeoSettings.leo / using Leo as a settings manager, and not the theme generation machinery per se. I have just spent all afternoon wrestling with themes. I agre

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 11:40:28 -0600 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > Leo *must* have a library of pre-built themes that users can choose > without knowing *anything* about @settings trees and > myLeoSettings.leo. This sounds like a good idea - I just want to point out that the problem identified here is

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 9:45 AM, rengel wrote: >> the python_terminal plugin ​[is now]​ visible in the plugins menu and in the Log pane. > Does this imply that every outline opened has its own Python console? ​At present, the answer is yes. A global console is conceivable, but does not seem nec

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Zoom.Quiet wrote: > > 1. Better theme setting and pre-built themes ​ ​ #766 > this is the biggest profit task; ​Just to underscore how wretched the present situation is, it took about 10 minutes for me to figure out how to enable Chris George's new scheme. I fin

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Zoom.Quiet wrote: ​>​ > 1. Better theme setting and pre-built themes > suggest base Sublime Text 3 's ​ ​ Spacegray/base16-eighties.dark.tmTheme -> predawn-DEV.sublime-theme ​Thanks. ​ I've made a note of this suggestion in #766. ​Edward​ -- You received this

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

> > > ​> ​ > If the Python console should be used, make it visible in the menu; don't > bury it in the documentation. > > ​Actually, my intention is to make key features visible *directly*, not > just in menus.​ > > I am going to enable the python_terminal plugin today, in both master and >

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

On Friday, March 2, 2018 at 11:27:59 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: *2. Better support for markdown* > > #767: Add markdown command similar to rst3 command > . I want to move > Leo's docs to markdown. > > #763: Use html comments to support @f

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 12:47 AM, rengel wrote: ​> ​ you might want to study the user interface of PyCharm ( https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/), especially their wording of menu entries and their 'Tools' menu. ​Good idea. It's on my list of things to do immediately. ​ ​> ​ If the Python consol

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:24 PM, lewis wrote: A recent discussion by Terry of the valuespace plugin helped me grasp just > one basic idea of what it did. > Terry noted "The vs-eval-block command from the valuespace plugin gives > Leo a cell like behavior." This seems to be hinting that these cells

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

If you haven't done so already, you might want to study the user interface of PyCharm (https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/), especially their wording of menu entries and their 'Tools' menu. Leo's menu entries are way too much developer-oriented. They express, what's available, not what can be don

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

A recent discussion by Terry of the valuespace plugin helped me grasp just one basic idea of what it did. Terry noted "The vs-eval-block command from the valuespace plugin gives Leo a cell like behavior." This seems to be hinting that these cells are similar to the Jupyter cells. If this is true

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 4:40 PM, Satish Goda wrote: > > I totally agree with your observation and a through overview of Leo is in > order to really sell it in an unified way. > > Following are my thoughts on making this happen > > 1. Create a document or presentation called "The Essence of Leo"

Re: The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

Hi Edward. I totally agree with your observation and a through overview of Leo is in order to really sell it in an unified way. Following are my thoughts on making this happen 1. Create a document or presentation called "The Essence of Leo" or "Leo at a Glance" (For presentation http://leoedito

The first, urgent task: show people what Leo already has

Leo probably *already has* the features you want. Alas, these features can be hidden from casual sight. This is driving me crazy :-) My top priority is to make it obvious to everyone, newbies and devs alike, what Leo can do. Happily, this is a *much easier* task than some of the grand project