On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Jason Grout
<jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote:
>
> William Stein wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new
>> bugs fixed (after separating it off from sage as a separate program
>> and rewriting the expect stuff). But I realized that it would be a
>> total nightmare to introduce yet another sobj ("sage object") storage
>> format, which would make refactoring code extremely painful, and just
>> have to be changed again. So, I created an "abstract storage layer"
>> and implemented an storage system for *everything* in the Sage
>> notebook which doesn't use any special Sage-related pickles. Some
>> data is stored as pickled basic Python objects that can be read from
>> any version of Python with or without Sage installed, but that is it.
>> Rewriting the notebook to use an abstract storage layer is the sort
>> of thing that at first seems like it will take a day, but then takes
>> more than a week. Anyway, I did it. However, it's hard to imagine
>> that I didn't introduce numerous new bugs in the process, though I do
>> not know of any bugs at all.
>>
>> So, I did an automatic migration of http://demo.sagenb.org to the new
>> notebook and put that at http://uw.sagenb.org/. I hope people will
>> test http://uw.sagenb.org/! Please try it. Report any bugs at all
>> that you find. Note that I've changed the icon in the upper left
>> corner to a new "sage notebook" icon that Harald Schilly designed, and
>> there are a few other small tweaks interface tweaks that people have
>> requested.
>
> Thanks for all of your work on this!
>
> I don't like that the icon takes up a lot of vertical space that is not
> used otherwise. On a computer projector at 800x600 or 1024x768,
> especially with a mac where you can't make the browser go full-screen,
> the vertical real-estate is premium. Ideally, when you "Toggle" the
> header, there would be only one line at the top of the notebook before
> the cells start.
>
> At the very least, maybe putting the version number right under "Sage
> Notebook" would justify the extra vertical space. I think it would be
> better if the icon were only one line high, and the toggle collapsed
> everything to one line.
>
> Jason
I'll change this as you suggest.
William
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