On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 10:29 AM, kcrisman<kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sep 8, 12:39 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM, kcrisman<kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Are there any other things you get complaints about that aren't listed >> >> here? >> >> > I'll try to think of things; I am quite sure that things like drop- >> > down menus for commands would be popular, but I don't think we're >> > going that direction. >> >> I'm not at all opposed to at least doing design work in that direction! > > Then go ahead and do that. Even having a proof-of-concept for > something like "highlight function, do something (copy?) pull down > action menu, pick *plot*, and return" would be useful, because it > would enable someone (not me) with the ability and desire to take the > notebook and make it usable in that way. > > Or even a clickable list of functions (organized in sublists) > somewhere near the help button, just as a quick reference for (say) > all number theory pre-imported commands, not one that would *do* > anything.
Thanks for the ideas. > I know #6001 has been steadily getting ready for prime time... does > that include the possibility of highlighting and querying? Often I > have created Obj = command1(command2(old-object)).newcommand and want > to ask for help on newcommand because I forgot the syntax, but ? there > just yields some kind of error. A related thing for usability is > #5644 - sometimes the docstrings are so long you forget what you were > doing. > > Incidentally, will the notebook rewrite be done in stages that we can > test out, or released as a big thing all at once sometime late this > fall? It was great to have time to test TinyMCE before the release, > for instance. I only know how to do development in little stages. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
