William Stein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nearly two weeks ago I had the notebook stabilized and all known new
> bugs fixed (after separating it off from sage as a separate program
> and rewriting the expect stuff). But I realized that it would be a
> total nightmare to introduce yet another sobj ("sage object") storage
> format, which would make refactoring code extremely painful, and just
> have to be changed again. So, I created an "abstract storage layer"
> and implemented an storage system for *everything* in the Sage
> notebook which doesn't use any special Sage-related pickles. Some
> data is stored as pickled basic Python objects that can be read from
> any version of Python with or without Sage installed, but that is it.
> Rewriting the notebook to use an abstract storage layer is the sort
> of thing that at first seems like it will take a day, but then takes
> more than a week. Anyway, I did it. However, it's hard to imagine
> that I didn't introduce numerous new bugs in the process, though I do
> not know of any bugs at all.
>
> So, I did an automatic migration of http://demo.sagenb.org to the new
> notebook and put that at http://uw.sagenb.org/. I hope people will
> test http://uw.sagenb.org/! Please try it. Report any bugs at all
> that you find. Note that I've changed the icon in the upper left
> corner to a new "sage notebook" icon that Harald Schilly designed, and
> there are a few other small tweaks interface tweaks that people have
> requested.
Thanks for all of your work on this!
I don't like that the icon takes up a lot of vertical space that is not
used otherwise. On a computer projector at 800x600 or 1024x768,
especially with a mac where you can't make the browser go full-screen,
the vertical real-estate is premium. Ideally, when you "Toggle" the
header, there would be only one line at the top of the notebook before
the cells start.
At the very least, maybe putting the version number right under "Sage
Notebook" would justify the extra vertical space. I think it would be
better if the icon were only one line high, and the toggle collapsed
everything to one line.
Jason
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Jason Grout
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