Hi Lucio, For what it is worth, I ran the LiveCD on a very new MacBook with an Intel 64-bit chip and it ran just fine. Not being a regular Mac user for some time, I did have to plug in a mouse to get a right-click ;-)
Re: taskbar. No, I think it is fine as is - just wasn't what I was expecting, so I asked. Rob On May 23, 5:58 pm, Lucio Lastra <luciolas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > 1) Yes. I'll put a comment in the wallpaper so it helps the users. > > 2) No problem with the two Sage items, I'll research about the > login and password or directly ask Alfredo how he did it. > > 3) That is the idea of the taskbar, to be extremely minimal and to > switch between windows using Alt + Tab. Do you think is better > to make it bigger, like it was before? If so I change it. > > Thank you very much for the feedback. > > Greetings, > > Lucio. > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > > > Hi Lucio, > > > It's working great for me - the improvements make a big difference in > > usability for the novice. I really like the way it starts up with a > > very clean screen featuring the Sage logo. And the bigger terminal > > window and fonts work much better on a high-resolution screen. Two > > comments and a question: > > > 1. At the screen mentioned above you need to know to right-click. Do > > you think a small amount of text below the logo on the wallpaper > > graphic (eg "Right-click for menu") would be helpful? > > > 2. How about two Sage-related menu items: "Sage Command Line" and > > "Sage Notebook"? I'd think the latter would be easy to add since its > > just a -notebook switch on the command line? It would probably > > bring up a terminal window to ask about passwords first, though. I > > wonder if you can preload the disc with a default password setup so > > attempts to use the notebook don't ask for it. Nothing is ever going > > to be saved anyway since it is a LiveCD so I'd guess that right now > > you'll be asked every time for a password. However, I think there may > > be some rearrangement of the authentication procedures coming soon, so > > maybe this should wait until then. > > > 3. I get a very limited "task bar" from Fluxbox. No icons, just a > > time and a left/right arrow to cycle through the available windows. > > Is this the intended behavior? > > > I think this is certainly ready for wider use now. Thanks for all the > > great work putting this together! > > > Rob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
