Sage Usability Tasks
Source: Sage Usability Improvements List. TODO: Assign difficulties to individual tasks, if it's appropriate, or just order or group by difficulty.
1. General
2. Documentation
3. Notebook: Admin
- Authentication:
- LDAP.
- UNIX accounts.
- 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.
- Users:
- Groups.
- Privileges.
- Email address as username.
- Use secure tokens to reset passwords.
4. Notebook: Introspection
- Use Sphinx for sagenb.org docstrings.
Matrix B mentioned twice in B.solve_left?: B.solve_left(B, ...).
- Better error detection, e.g., for Maxima command completion.
- Completions link for mobiles.
- Live introspection cells.
- Introspection cross-links.
- Improve introspection / completion interface: floating div, RHS div.
New documentation browser. Send worksheet docstrings to this browser.
5. Notebook: "Modes"
- %timeit.
Graph editor - #1321.
- reST:
%rest cells (auto-hide, double-click to show) converted to HTML by Sphinx.
- Preparse in the browser: implicit multiplication, less work for server.
Python debugger a la Pylons.
Draw - SVG-edit.
- Annotate output from matplotlib's SVG backend.
Code editor a la BeSpin
- Command-line history.
- Syntax highlighting.
- Context-sensitive completion.
6. Notebook: User Interaction
- Help:
- Reorganize help page.
- Search for commands
- linking to similar and related commands
- Easy set up of shipped jsMath fonts.
- Automatic tips for keyboard shortcuts, editing features, etc. Opt out.
- Friendly bug buddy that emails reports, bundles session history, etc.
- Reorganize help page.
- Customization:
- Typeset output default setting.
- Implicit multiplication default setting.
- Custom window close callback.
- Function to update worksheet titlebar.
- Easy backups of own work, with or w/o data, output, snapshots, etc.
Download zip files of multiple worksheets, even if accounts=True.
- Keys
- Restart worksheet shortcut.
- Splash-screen with common keys.
- Insert new cell after current cell shortcut.
Custom shortcuts, e.g., ctrl-bksp to delete previous word, not join cells - js-hotkeys.
- Cells:
- Auto-updating cells, e.g., interacts.
- Prevent text movement by a pixel on cell frame focus.
- Always show links for long output cells, regardless of length or interruption.
- Easily identify idle, queued, and running cells.
Select, delete, (un)group, move multiple cells.
Leading space input bug - #6729.
- 2D / 3D plots:
JavaScript animations.
Mouse-over for coordinates - matplotlib.
Interactively zoom, pan, annotate - canvas, SVG, Flot, Open Flash Chart.
- Worksheets:
- Slideshow mode.
- Use notebook as IDE for running sage instance.
- Always visible menubar at top of worksheet.
- Toolbar with buttons to interrupt running code, save, attach files, etc.
Parens matching - #3646.
TinyMCE synchronization problem.
- Published worksheets:
- Delete them.
- RSS feeds.
- Live cells, e.g, interacts.
- Only to selected users or groups.
- Notebook:
Tags.
- Suppress browser warning for Konquereor.
- Unique cookies for logins from different browsers / computers.
Full-text search: SQLalchemy, Whoosh (codenode-devel).
Fix MoinMoin.
Externally embed live cells / worksheets. Live published workseets. #6855.
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 for backups, possibly with authentication.
- Track worksheets and user data with Mercurial.
- Balance server pool loads.
- Load JS / CSS components on demand.
Migrate to server / framework: Django, Pylons, Pyjamas, Tornado, etc.: