I don't know if this comment is relevant or not to this thread or not but I use the "Discard&quit" button *very* frequently. I tell my students to log into the local Sage server, do the homework, and share it with me. They often leave the process going (I guess they just kill their browser?), so I open each one that is still running and hit the D&q button. I probably do that about 30-50 times each time a class assignment is due. It seems useful to me to have a command that quits the processes started by the worksheet and makes no other changes.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So there are these buttons at the top of my worksheets saying "Save", > "Save & quit", "Discard & quit". What do they do? Do we need them? > Random comments: > > It seems to me that right now, "Save & quit" and "Discard & quit" do > the same thing: return to the list of active worksheets. For example, > I just opened a worksheet, made a tiny little change and hit "Discard > & quit". When I reopened the worksheet, the change was visible -- it > hadn't been discarded. So is there any actual difference between the > two? Should there be? If not, they should be consolidated into one > button: "Quit worksheet" or "Close worksheet". > > If we *do* want those buttons to have different behaviors, then here's > an idea: when you open a worksheet, you should actually be working on > copy of it, and the original one shouldn't be changed until you hit > "Save" or "Save & quit". If you hit "Discard", then the copy is > thrown away. Before you hit any of those buttons, the copy should be > on the list of active worksheets (in case there is a crash or > something like that). > > Finally, whether those buttons do the same thing or not, their > behavior should also be changed as follows: if the list of worksheets > is already open in another tab or window (likely to be the case with > 3.4.1.rc1, for example), then clicking those buttons saves or discards > as necessary, then just closes the current tab/window, and perhaps > selects (and refreshes?) the window containing the list of worksheets > -- it shouldn't keep the current tab/window open displaying a second > copy of the list of worksheets. > > John > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
