On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Ivan Andrus <darthand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>
>> The issue is that the Sage window is mixed up with all the other browser 
>> windows, with irrelevant menu items, doesn't have its own icon in the dock, 
>> and the Sage session doesn't stop when the window is closed. Now there are 
>> several advantages to this from a remote users perspective, but in some ways 
>> it's not as "nice" as a native app (and how much you find that annoying is a 
>> matter of personal preference). Separate instances of Firefox can be started 
>> up with their own user profiles--perhaps the same can be done with Safari. 
>> (Well, it obviously can, see Fluid--thought that's not open source.)
>
> I have many of the same concerns, but as I mentioned in an email a few weeks 
> ago [1], Fluid is now open source (apache license) [2] and I have an example 
> of what a first stab at a Fluid-based Sage.app might look like at
> http://math.byu.edu/~gvol/files/fluidium-app.spkg


Can you describe how a mac user should try this out?
I guess, install using sage -i, but then what happens?

>
> -Ivan
>
> [1] 
> http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/814114f9f246886a/940a5cc16ac217df>
> [2]<http://github.com/itod/fluidium>
>
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