On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:08 AM, William Stein wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Robert Bradshaw > <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: >> On Jun 9, 2010, at 11:53 PM, Georg S. Weber wrote: >>> On 10 Jun., 02:37, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Karl-Dieter just showed me how to get the OSX App built using sage >>>> -bdist: >>>> >>>> export SAGE_APP_BUNDLE=yes >>>> sage -bdist 4.4.2-app >>>> >>>> There are people I know that would *love* to have a clickable app on >>>> OSX. Why do we not have this as a download option on the webpage? >>> >>> As far as I remember, there was no consensus reached as to *what >>> exactly* should happen if you "just click" on some Sage App Icon. As >>> of now, there are at least three different possibilities: >>> >>> a.) A "Sage shell" opens, i.e. a terminal that is already cd'ed to >>> $SAGE_ROOT and "./sage -sh" is executed. >>> b.) A "Sage interpreter" opens, i.e. a terminal that is already cd'ed >>> to $SAGE_ROOT and "./sage" is executed. >>> c.) A "Sage notebook" opens, i.e. a terminal that is already cd'ed to >>> $SAGE_ROOT and "./sage -notebook" is executed. >> >> I think for the vast majority of people wanting a double-clickable app >> rather than the command line, (c) would be the way to go. The tricky part is >> how to quit. >> > > Many of us use OS X, so let's just assume we can program anything if > we want. What would be the best UI for Sage? > > The first thing that pops into my mind is that Sage runs as some sort > of server, kind of like say DropBox or any of the many other programs > running with an icon in the bar at the top of the screen. So I > imagine that when one double clicks on the Sage icon, > > (1) the default browser opens with the Sage notebook running, > (2) a small Sage icon appears in the bar at the top of the screen. > (3) When clicked, the Sage icon in the bar has at least two options: > - Sage Notebook (which just opens the browser to the > notebook server) > - Quit (which quits the Sage notebook server and makes > the icon vanish) > > It could (but probably shouldn't) also have some slightly more advanced > options: > - Log (pop up a Terminal window with "tail -f" on the > notebook server log) > - Kill all running Sage sessions > > This is basically how I use the Sage notebook on my laptop anyways, > but with the bar/icon above replaced by a screen session. > > Regarding (1), the notebook itself could be slightly modified to > provide a reminder to the user about how to control the notebook > server.
Okay, I created a simple application (none of the copyright is set for example) that does the following: 1. On launch it runs sage -notebook (which will open the default browser etc. (unless there is a server running)) 2. It only appears as a menu extra which allows opening notebooks, the log, and several shell sessions (am I missing anything -- reveal SAGE_ROOT in Finder perhaps?). 3. On quit it stops the server (should there be an option to quit without stopping the server?). If you want to try it, I have put it up at http://math.byu.edu/~gvol/files/SageMenu.zip and a screen shot at http://math.byu.edu/~gvol/files/sage-menu-screenshot.png For testing purposes it creates a symlink in Contents/Resources/ to a local sage root directory. In the distributed version I imagine that the sage root would reside there (like it does in the app created currently). Because of this, if you have problems running, it may be that sage is not in your path. If this is the case then you will need to edit Targets > SageMenu > Run Script and change the default sage root directory. Right now I created it completely outside of Sage, but I can of course replace the app that is in Sage, or add this in addition. Does anyone prefer the application that is currently created? Obviously sage -bdist will have to be changed as well, but that shouldn't be hard. I'm not a Cocoa expert by any means, so if someone knows how to improve things please let me know and/or send patches. One thing that I would like it to do is turn red while the server is starting (is there a good way to detect this?). Also, is there a way to do something like the following: ./sage -browse http://localhost:8000/ What I'm doing is sage -c 'import sage.misc.viewer as b; os.system(b.browser() + " http://localhost:8000/";)' Phew. I don't know why my emails always turn out to be novels. -Ivan -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
