On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote:
> > Hi > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 03:14:03AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > > (3) How to start the notebook interface -- obviously I don't care, > but > > new users find this very important, I would guess? > > If a user is that new that this doesn't make sense, should she even be > here? Where is "here"? Using the command line? I'm confused by your question. You're saying "doesn't make sense", but that's not why notebook() is in the banner. It's so people know there is a notebook interface at all (many wouldn't), and how to invoke it. Many users all over have shell accounts on unix systems, they type Sage because they've heard about it, but they know nothing else. Note that the notebook can also be used remotely on a remote server, and that by typing notebook? a user should be able to figure out how to set that up pretty quickly too. > > І have the following desktop icon: > > j...@muizenberg:~/Desktop$cat SAGE.desktop > #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open > > [Desktop Entry] > Encoding=UTF-8 > Version=1.0 > Type=Application > Terminal=true > Icon[en_ZA]=gnome-panel-launcher > Name[en_ZA]=SAGE > Exec=sage -notebook > Name=SAGE > Icon=/usr/local/src/sage-4.1/data/extcode/notebook/images/sageicon.png > 0 j...@muizenberg:~/Desktop$ > > A new course will start next week, and the students will be presented only > with this' they need nothing except the notebook for quite some time. > > The banner need not take care of this, but a desktop icon as above might > be a good inclusion with the sage tarball. I suppose there could be one > for kde, gnome, xfce, etc. Thanks! It will be great for somebody to contribute some icons... > > > regards, > Jan > -- > .~. > /V\ Jan Groenewald > /( )\ www.aims.ac.za > ^^-^^ > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
