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== Notebook: Admin == | == Notebook == === Admin === |
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* '''Lots''' of options with sensible defaults: * Email address as username. * Secure tokens to reset passwords. * Moderated new account registration. * Custom analytics tags, geolocation ([[http://www.clustrmaps.com/ | ClustrMaps]]). |
* More powerful account management tools. * Allow email address as username. * Custom analytics tags, geolocation ([[http://www.clustrmaps.com/ | ClustrMaps]]). |
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== Notebook: Introspection == | === Introspection === |
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== Notebook: "Modes" == | === "Modes" === |
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* Control over widget layout - [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7379 | #7379]]. | * Widget layout - [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/7379 | #7379]]. |
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* Display nicely formatted docstrings (or captions). * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/d32ad8e2663bd7d1 | Simplify extension]], possibly with templates. |
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* reST - [[http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/ | markItUp]] with server-side Sphinx. | * reST mode, with server-side Sphinxify. |
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* [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/86429406fb3bba17/dd3163cb2a47fa38?#dd3163cb2a47fa38 | Vector graphics]] - [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6973 | #6973]]. * Draw - [[http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/ | SVG-edit]]. * Annotate output from matplotlib's SVG backend. |
* Draw or annotate with [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/86429406fb3bba17/dd3163cb2a47fa38?#dd3163cb2a47fa38 | vector graphics]] - [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6973 | #6973]]. |
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== Notebook: Under the hood == * `notebook()`: * Allow default systems besides 'sage'. * Allow a different sage command on a remote machine. |
=== Under the hood === |
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* Processes: * Balance server pool loads. * Don't block the server: making docbrowsers, etc. * Remote worksheet processes. * Use fork, named pipes, and/or [[http://docs.python.org/library/mmap.html | memory-mapped]] files for worksheet processes. |
* Load-balancing. * Offload more work to worksheet processes, e.g., docbrowser generation. * Alternate worksheet process implementations: remote, fork, named pipes, [[http://docs.python.org/library/mmap.html | memory-mapped files]]. |
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== Notebook: User Interaction == | === User Interaction === |
Contents
Sage Tasks Outline
This is a general outline of targeted areas, including specific tasks, for improving the usability of Sage. The sources include the Sage Usability Improvements List and sagenb/todo.txt, but the scope here is wider. Feel free to make changes. To keep items succinct, please make links to group discussions, etc.
1. General
Sagenb.org privacy policy.
Y. Aner's notebook threat model (PDF).
SageForge - semi-automated repository for contributions to Sage:
- Scripts, worksheets, databases, and packages of [nearly] all sizes.
- Supplementary documentation, including multimedia.
- Optional reviews and ratings.
- Live, ulimited cellular paste-bin.
- RSS feeds.
2. Build / Test
- Tests:
- Meaningful statistics / benchmarks, e.g., %timeit for individual doctests.
- Parallel inter/intra-spkg builds.
- Windows port.
- Fat binaries (no SSE3, etc.).
- Notebook functional tests - Extend Selenium tests to other browsers.
Notebook load tests - The Grinder, FunkLoad, Pylot, Watir, Zope.testbrowser (now in SageNB).
3. Development
Auto-reload changed modules - paster serve --reload, CherryPy's AutoReload.
More convenient development workflow:
Code review tools - Rietveld.
- Automated, continuous builds and testing for new patches.
4. Documentation
- Document:
- Add many more modules to the reference manual.
5. Notebook
5.1. Admin
Don't list all users' worksheets.
- Authentication - abstract interface:
- LDAP.
- UNIX accounts.
- Dashboard:
- Real-time and cumulative statistics, aggregate and per user.
- Backups: complete or selective.
- Manage user accounts, passwords, groups, privileges.
- Send email to all registered users.
- Install new / updated modules and spkgs.
- More powerful account management tools.
- Allow email address as username.
Custom analytics tags, geolocation (ClustrMaps).
5.2. Introspection
- Better error detection, e.g., for Maxima command completion.
- Live introspection cells.
- Introspection cross-links.
New documentation browser. Open worksheet docstrings in this browser.
5.3. "Modes"
- %timeit.
%cython mode, full and outside sage.
Slideshow mode - #6342.
- interacts:
- Auto updates.
Live published or remote - #6855.
Widget layout - #7379.
- Examples to include with Sage.
More widgets: circular slider ("angle" wheel), date picker, vertical sliders, spreadsheets, interactive plots, etc.
- reST mode, with server-side Sphinxify.
- Debugging:
Draw or annotate with vector graphics - #6973.
Code editor - BeSpin, CodeMirror (#7501).
- Browse worksheet directories like a file system.
5.4. Under the hood
Manage Jmol applet count / memory use - sage-notebook.
Use Python's logging facility.
- Cythonize pexpect.
- Load-balancing.
- Offload more work to worksheet processes, e.g., docbrowser generation.
Alternate worksheet process implementations: remote, fork, named pipes, memory-mapped files.
- Client-server and server-server interaction:
Load JS / CSS components on demand - Ajile.
- Server-to-server backups, possibly with authentication.
- Decouple secure transport from sage. Use OpenSSL(?)
Remote access Python API - Google Documents List Data API
- Manipulate, share, up/download, publish worksheets at a given Sage(Forge) server.
- Storage:
Fix worksheet.autosave().
- Always retrieve worksheet content from disk on open.
- Use a revision control tool (e.g., Mercurial) for undo, history, snapshots, etc.
- File size limit - auto-delete and warn above threshold.
Access a user's data directory securely via the new storage API.
- Handle permissions better for directories, history, output, conf files, etc.
Migrate to server / framework: Django, Pylons, Pyjamas, Tornado, etc.:
Switch from twisted.web2 to twisted.web.
5.5. User Interaction
- Help:
- Reorganize help page:
- Search for commands.
- Linking to similar and related commands.
Easy set up of shipped jsMath fonts - MathJax.
- Automatic tips for keyboard shortcuts, editing features, etc. Opt out.
- Reorganize help page:
- Customization:
- Defaults: typeset, implicit multiplication, 3D viewer, rename "Untitled" worksheets.
- Function to update worksheet titlebar.
- Easy backups, selective or complete.
- Keys
- New shortcuts, e.g., for restart worksheet.
Custom shortcuts, e.g., ctrl-bksp to delete previous word, not join cells - #7618.
- Cells:
- Right-click menu.
- Auto-updating cells, e.g., interacts.
- Unify server and client-side resize algorithms.
- Always show links for long output cells, regardless of length or interruption.
Select, delete, (un)group, move multiple cells.
- 2D / 3D plots:
JavaScript animations.
Mouse-over for coordinates - matplotlib.
Interactively zoom, pan, annotate - canvas, SVG, Flot, Open Flash Chart.
- Worksheets:
- Export screen with checkboxes for images, data, etc.
Use notebook as IDE for running sage instance - #7501.
- Don't list "Sage Users" when sharing.
Page through worksheet list, not all at once - tablesorter.
- Toolbar with buttons to interrupt running code, save, attach files, etc.
Real-time concurrent editing - #7362.
- Published worksheets:
- Delete them.
- RSS feeds.
Live cells, e.g, interacts - #6855.
- Only to selected users or groups.
- Notebook:
- Manage logins:
View recent account activity. Add last login to user.py.
- Invalidate other sessions' cookies.
Full-text search: SQLalchemy, Whoosh (codenode-devel).
- External:
Embed live cells / worksheets - #6855.
- Live published worksheets.