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| = Sage Usability Improvements List = Adapted from [[http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/tmp/sageuse/ | this repository]]. |
= Sage Usability Improvements = This unofficial wish list is adapted from [[http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/tmp/sageuse/ | this repository]]. Please feel free to add or clarify ideas, link to trac tickets, make comments, reorganize items, point out useful links, etc. |
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| * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/e86932eeadd88c6a | latex doc mode]] | * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/e86932eeadd88c6a | LaTeX doc mode]]. |
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| * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/8fa0d854b6928f2b/dc4cfe0a941762aa#dc4cfe0a941762aa | back tick versus $]]-- see sage-devel discussion I started on sept 3; suggestion is to patch Sphinx itself. * fix sagenb.org so docstrings look right (sphinx) |
* [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/8fa0d854b6928f2b/dc4cfe0a941762aa#dc4cfe0a941762aa | reST back ticks versus $]] - Patch or extend Sphinx. * Fix sagenb.org so docstrings look right (Sphinx). |
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| (1) replace tinymce by ReST editor? (2) %rest in cells, and get rest output. * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/35e97a1d1cedfdfd | document pexpect users]] |
1. replace tinymce by ReST editor? 2. %rest in cells, and get rest output. * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/msg/35e97a1d1cedfdfd | Document pexpect interface for users]]. |
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| * add a textcha question for sage notebook signup | * Fix the major bugs and issues with the current notebook that make it difficult to deploy (e.g., account management). |
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| * LDAP authentication. Suggested by "[email protected] Hello, I am *very* interested. I am supposed to start a Sage server for *all* the undergraduate students of my University (at least those learning maths and computer sciences or physics). My contribution is very small: add ldap identification, run a server on 3 "large" machines. Yours t.d. " * ensure no matter what that worksheet and server are 'nsync |
* Add a textcha question for notebook signup. How about [[http://recaptcha.net/ | reCAPTCHA]]? |
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| * reduce data loss possibilites -- see dataloss.txt | * LDAP authentication. (tdumont) |
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| * Byungchul Cha <[email protected]>: "I am running sage in one of our department servers, so that my students can use them. If my students lose their password, how can I recover it for them? Thanks." | * Guaranteed worksheet-server synchronization. |
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| * make it so username is email address -- i really like that | * Reduce data loss possibilites. ([[http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wstein/tmp/sageuse/dataloss.txt | dataloss.txt]]) |
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| * add users as admin -- see sage-support email to fprimex<[email protected]> | * Recover passwords. (Byungchul Cha) * Email address as username. * Add users as admins. (fprimex) |
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| * reorganize the notebook help page | * Reorganize the notebook help page. |
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| * automatically have worksheets save their state and restore when started later. | * Automatically have worksheets save their state and restore when started later. |
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| * ability to update the titlebar from sage notebook | * Update the titlebar from the notebook. |
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| * ability for interacts to auto-update themselves | * Auto-updating interacts. |
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| * Whoosh fulltext search (search in codenode archives for discussion) | * Whoosh full-text search (search in codenode archives for discussion). |
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| * Keith Lang "Top 10 UX Myths"; http://carsonified.com/blog/design/top-10-ux-myths/ | * [[http://carsonified.com/blog/design/top-10-ux-myths/ | Keith Lang's Top 10 UX Myths]]. |
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| * chat system for students/users | * Chat system for students/users. Is there a Google gadget for this? |
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| * implement %timeit block in notebook | * Implement %timeit block in notebook. |
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| * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/e46f0a59d5cf70dc | tags ]]-- see file tags.txt | * [[http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/e46f0a59d5cf70dc | Worksheet tags]]. (Brian Granger) |
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| * 1 week -- write something to make it easy to embed interacts in other web pages (needed for the frg, imho -- may start this at Lopez). | * Embed interacts in other web pages. |
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| ONDREJ: . There are things that I now don't like on the Sage notebook, like that if I click on a cell, the frame gets focused (that's ok), but the text moves by one pixel. I hate that. My javascript version doesn't do that, at least on firefox. In fact, it's just a CSS styles issue, so it's easy to fix -- but I wasn't sure if it's just on my firefox, or oeverywhere. |
* There are things that I now don't like on the Sage notebook, like that if I click on a cell, the frame gets focused (that's ok), but the text moves by one pixel. I hate that. My javascript version doesn't do that, at least on firefox. In fact, it's just a CSS styles issue, so it's easy to fix -- but I wasn't sure if it's just on my firefox, or oeverywhere. (ONDREJ) |
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| * iphone -- link to do completions | * Completions link for iphone. |
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| * notebook input bug -- http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6729 | * Notebook input bug [[http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6729 | #6729]]. |
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| * debugger in the notebook | * Debugger in the notebook. Python. |
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| * Somebody published a irrelevant worksheet (to test the button) and wanted to cancel it but he was not able. He then delete its worksheet, but apparently the worksheet was still published...:( | * Make it possible to delete published worksheets. |
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| * make it possible to delete published worksheets. | * Slideshow mode. |
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| * slideshow mode | * In-browser zoom-pan-annotate of Sage plots. |
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| * in-browser zoom-pan-annotate of Sage plots | * What I mean is that the chance to access at the same time an history powered command line, and a powerful editor (with code completion, tabs, colors, etc.., which looks pretty standard - to not say minimal - in these modern times) looks pretty comfortable to me, but I'll be happy to listen to other comments. I've already heard talking about !BeSpin ( https://bespin.mozilla.com/ ) in this list, right? Can't we have something similar? :) |
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| * What I mean is that the chance to access at the same time an history powered command line, and a powerful editor (with code completion, tabs, colors, etc.., which looks pretty standard - to not say minimal - in these modern times) looks pretty comfortable to me, but I'll be happy to listen to other comments. I've already heard talking about BeSpin ( https://bespin.mozilla.com/ ) in this list, right? Can't we have something similar? :) * fix moinmoin |
* Fix !MoinMoin. |
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| * Implement a cross-browser web-application testing infrastructure based on webdriver http://code.google.com/p/webdriver/ for the notebook, focused on functionality, consistency and concurrency. For example, execute 10 sessions of virtual calculus students in a loop. tags: google <- for funding? notebook java stresstest Money? Don't know, motivated student who has learned webdesign, java and probably python. | * Implement a cross-browser web-application automated testing infrastructure based on webdriver http://code.google.com/p/webdriver/ for the notebook, focused on functionality, consistency, concurrency, and scalability. For example, execute 10 sessions of virtual calculus students in a loop. |
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| * make it so sage binaries don't use ssse3, etc. -- make them FAT! | * Make it so Sage binaries don't use SSE3, etc. -- make them FAT! |
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| * windows server farm | * Windows server farm. |
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| * 1 week -- write code to do automated testing of the scalability of the Sage (or any) notebook system | * Sagelite - separate the current notebook from Sage and get it to run on Windows. |
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| * 1 week -- get the current notebook separated out from Sage 100% for real and get it to work on windows. (this is sagelite). | * Windows port. |
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| * 1 month -- the windows port | * !VirtualBox Sage. |
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| * 2 days -- VirtualBox Sage | * andLinux Sage. |
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| * 2 days -- andLinux Sage * 1 month -- fix the major bugs and issues with the current notebook that make it difficult to deploy (e.g., account management). * 1 week -- improve documentation/testing and refactor code. |
* Improve documentation/testing and refactor code. |
Sage Usability Improvements
This unofficial wish list is adapted from this repository. Please feel free to add or clarify ideas, link to trac tickets, make comments, reorganize items, point out useful links, etc.
Documentation
reST back ticks versus $ - Patch or extend Sphinx.
- Fix sagenb.org so docstrings look right (Sphinx).
- ReST mode(s):
- replace tinymce by ReST editor?
- %rest in cells, and get rest output.
Notebook
Admin
- Fix the major bugs and issues with the current notebook that make it difficult to deploy (e.g., account management).
Add a textcha question for notebook signup. How about reCAPTCHA?
- LDAP authentication. (tdumont)
- Guaranteed worksheet-server synchronization.
Reduce data loss possibilites. (dataloss.txt)
- Recover passwords. (Byungchul Cha)
- Email address as username.
- Add users as admins. (fprimex)
Users
- Reorganize the notebook help page.
- Automatically have worksheets save their state and restore when started later.
- Update the titlebar from the notebook.
- Auto-updating interacts.
- Whoosh full-text search (search in codenode archives for discussion).
- Chat system for students/users. Is there a Google gadget for this?
- Implement %timeit block in notebook.
Worksheet tags. (Brian Granger)
- Embed interacts in other web pages.
- There are things that I now don't like on the Sage notebook, like that if I click on a cell, the frame gets focused (that's ok), but the text moves by one pixel. I hate that. My javascript version doesn't do that, at least on firefox. In fact, it's just a CSS styles issue, so it's easy to fix -- but I wasn't sure if it's just on my firefox, or oeverywhere. (ONDREJ)
- Completions link for iphone.
Notebook input bug #6729.
- Debugger in the notebook. Python.
- Make it possible to delete published worksheets.
- Slideshow mode.
- In-browser zoom-pan-annotate of Sage plots.
What I mean is that the chance to access at the same time an history powered command line, and a powerful editor (with code completion, tabs, colors, etc.., which looks pretty standard - to not say minimal - in these modern times) looks pretty comfortable to me, but I'll be happy to listen to other comments. I've already heard talking about BeSpin ( https://bespin.mozilla.com/ ) in this list, right? Can't we have something similar?
Fix MoinMoin.
Build / Test
Implement a cross-browser web-application automated testing infrastructure based on webdriver http://code.google.com/p/webdriver/ for the notebook, focused on functionality, consistency, concurrency, and scalability. For example, execute 10 sessions of virtual calculus students in a loop.
- Make it so Sage binaries don't use SSE3, etc. -- make them FAT!
- Windows server farm.
- Sagelite - separate the current notebook from Sage and get it to run on Windows.
- Windows port.
VirtualBox Sage.
- andLinux Sage.
- Improve documentation/testing and refactor code.