Hi Rob, thank you very much for your feedback! :)
Greetings, Lucio. On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
