On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 1) I think that completely white background would be the best.
I would love to see what this looks like.
> 2) Going to the download page, the first sentence I read is "Sage for
> Microsoft Windows is currently not native available," (and at the
> first read I actually missed the word native). I don't think it is
> good to start describing technical problems before explaining how to
> use Sage in Windows NOW.
I agree with this. Also, though there is no 100% native MSVC build of
Sage for Windows, I have -- much to my surprise -- had numerous
people rave about the VMware version of Sage. It does have a number
of important advantages that a native version of Sage for windows might
not have, which some people value:
* it includes fully working and free GCC, fortran, (and now) latex.
* it can be paused and resumed at any point, so rebooting windows doesn't
mean losing a long-running computation
* it is sandboxed so can't hurt the rest of the OS (and conversely)
* though not 64-bit now, it would be trivial for us to create a
fully 100% 64-bit version of it (vmware fully supports 64-bit
under windows).
* on machines with intel's vtx instruction set (which is very common
these days) the performance hit is < 5%. In fact, I've seen performance
under vmware Linux beat native windows/osx performance, because of
(1) good 64-bit support, and (2) code being much more optimized for
Linux than Windows/OS X, because authors use Linux more.
So the vmware distro of sage isn't a priori a total disaster. That said
I really *really* want a full native version of Sage on Windows...
> 3) I have a screen with small grain and use large system fonts in
> Windows, so in IE the text on "buttons" from the main page is broken
> into two lines like 2008-\n05-05 and it is not pretty.
>
> 4) Perhaps the same issue - in the list of publications numbers
> starting from 10 are truncated on the left (a part of the first digit
> is still visible)
>
> 5) The page with the map of developers takes a bit to load, so maybe
> it should not be linked to "many people" on the main page - I expected
> to see just a list of contributors and was wondering why it is not
> opening.
>
> 6) It may be nice to have a counter of people who have made donations
> and/or total amount of them, like Wikipedia does.
I'm against this. I haven't thought through exactly why, but I don't think
it's the right model for Sage at all. It also gives way too much the feeling
of a NPR fund raiser.
> 7) I think it would be nice to have a link to on-line notebook more
> visible. Maybe among the big buttons, or maybe even in the beginning
> of the download page it can be written that it is very easy to try
> Sage, even without downloading/installing.
>
> Thank you!
> Andrey
Thanks for all the feedback.
-- William
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