kcrisman wrote: >>> I implementing the feature in the notebook before where it lists all >>> users when you click on "Share". I thought this was nice, since you >>> could chose the ones you want. There are now 6598 users at >>> sagenb.org, which makes the share button nearly useless. Are people >>> OK with us changing "share" so it doesn't list any other usernames? >>> It would of course be an easy one-line patch. >> Could you make the box use tab-completion on the username? > > Actually, I had never tried 'Share' before but needed to do so today > for something else, and lo and behold I found the feature of a > complete list VERY useful, e.g. to share something with precisely the > students enrolled in class X and not have to look at a list of all > their names and type in guesses at their usernames... > > So I would add that at least for a smaller server, it would be useful > to have the option to show all of them, perhaps with a warning that > the list will be very long (Blackboard does something like this, > though as typical not in a user-friendly way, only 30 at a time). > > One might also want to consider that some users of a Sage server might > NOT want to be listed under 'Share', so perhaps that could be > configurable. And the admin should be able to configure who is > allowed to choose that privacy option (i.e. not students in class > Y). > > Basically I'll just request that Sage becomes a fully-featured social > networking software with a built-in math engine and be done with > it :) But I am serious about the "list all" feature being quite > useful in certain circumstances.
I have found it very useful too. How about a link to a javascript popup window listing all the users? That way, it's there if you want, but it won't need to be displayed or computed most of the time. I also still think tab-completion would be nice :). Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
