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| Source: [[SageUsability | Sage Usability Improvements List]]. This is an attempt to organize the desired changes into tasks of varying difficulty (e.g., easy, medium, hard). | Source: [[SageUsability | Sage Usability Improvements List]]. TODO: Assign difficulties to individual tasks, if it's appropriate. |
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| * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/35e97a1d1cedfdfd | Document pexpect interface]]. * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/6d94c8655e41ba24# | Document notebook port forwarding]]. |
* Document: * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/35e97a1d1cedfdfd | pexpect interface for users]]. * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/6d94c8655e41ba24# | notebook port forwarding]]. |
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| * Dashboard for server settings / status. | * Dashboard for server settings / status: |
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| * Backup all critical data. | * Backups: all critical data, selective. |
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| * Selective registration with [[http://recaptcha.net/ | reCAPTCHA]], challenge questions, admin approval, and/or revokable custom tokens. * Custom authentication: LDAP, UNIX accounts, etc. * Password "recovery:" Use secure tokens. * Email address as username. * User groups. * Privileged users, e.g, admins. |
* Registration: * [[http://recaptcha.net/ | reCAPTCHA]]. * Challenge questions. * Admin approval. * Revokable custom tokens. * Authentication: * LDAP. * UNIX accounts. * Users: * Groups. * Privileges. * Email address as username. * Use secure tokens to reset passwords. |
Sage Usability Tasks
Source: Sage Usability Improvements List. TODO: Assign difficulties to individual tasks, if it's appropriate.
1. General
2. Documentation
3. Notebook: Admin
- Dashboard for server settings / status:
- View logged-in users, load, processes, etc.
- Backups: all critical data, selective.
- Configure thresholds, alerts, snapshot behavior.
- Manage user accounts, groups, privileges.
- Restricted version for users.
- Registration:
- Challenge questions.
- Admin approval.
- Revokable custom tokens.
- Authentication:
- LDAP.
- UNIX accounts.
- Users:
- Groups.
- Privileges.
- Email address as username.
- Use secure tokens to reset passwords.
4. Notebook: Introspection
- Use Sphinx for sagenb.org docstrings.
- Live introspection cells.
- Introspection cross-links.
New documentation browser. Send docstrings to this browser.
- Better error detection, e.g., for Maxima command completion.
Matrix B mentioned twice in B.solve_left?: B.solve_left(B, ...).
- Completions link for mobiles.
- Improve introspection / completion interface: floating div, RHS div.
5. Notebook: "Modes"
Graph editor - #1321.
- reST editing.
%rest cells (auto-hide, double-click to show) sent to Sphinx on-the-fly.
- %timeit.
- Preparse in the browser: implicit multiplication, less work for server.
6. Notebook: User Interaction
- Automatic tips for keyboard shortcuts, editing features, etc. Opt out.
- Friendly bug buddy that emails reports, bundles session history, etc.
- Easy backups of own work, with or w/o data, output, snapshots, etc.
- Toolbar with buttons to interrupt running code, save, get key help, etc.
- Easily identify idle, queued, and running cells.
- Keys
- Insert new cell after current cell shortcut.
- Restart worksheet shortcut.
- Custom shortcuts, e.g., ctrl-bksp to delete previous word, not join cells.
- Use js-hotkeys.
- Splash-screen with common keys.
- Interactive 2D/3D plots
coordinates, zoom, pan, annotate
matplotlib, canvas, SVG, Flot, Open Flash Chart.
Animated 2D/3D plots using only JavaScript.
- Always show long output links, regardless of interrupt or length.
- Custom window close callback.
- Suppress browser warning for Konquereor.
- Unique cookie for each login.
Cells: Select, delete, (un)group, move multiple cells.
- Slideshow mode.
- Published worksheets:
- Delete them.
- RSS feeds.
- Live cells, e.g, interacts.
- Only to selected users or groups.
- jsMath fonts:
- Ship with Sage.
- Clear install directions.
TinyMCE synchronization problem.
- Default options:
- Implicit multiplication.
- Typeset output.
- Reorganize help page.
- Automatically save / restore worksheet state. Pause / resume.
- Function to update worksheet titlebar.
- Auto-update cells, e.g., interacts.
Full-text search: SQLalchemy, Whoosh (codenode-devel).
Tags.
Externally embed live cells / worksheets. Live published workseets. #6855.
- Prevent text movement by a pixel on cell frame focus.
Leading space input bug - #6729.
Python debugger a la Pylons.
Editor a la BeSpin
- Command-line history.
- Syntax highlighting.
- Context-sensitive completion.
Fix MoinMoin.
- Use notebook as IDE for running sage instance.
Download zip files of multiple worksheets, even if accounts=True.
Parens matching - #3646.
- Optional always visible menubar at top of worksheet.
7. Notebook: Under the hood
- Better handling of concurrent worksheet use.
- Smartly manage Jmol applet count, or memory use.
- Cythonize pexpect.
- Client-server synchronization:
- TinyMCE problem
- Server-to-server sync for backups, possibly with authentication.
- Track worksheets and user data with Mercurial.
- Balance server pool loads.
- Load JS / CSS components on demand.
Migrate to another server and/or framework: Django, Pylons, Pyjamas, Tornado, etc.