[IPython-dev] Notebook: File Browser

[Brian Granger]

Very good point.

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On Jul 9, 2013, at 11:48 PM, Matthias BUSSONNIER <bussonniermatthias at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Le 10 juil. 2013 à 06:08, Brian Granger a écrit :
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>> The biggest change we have in the works is that the URLs for notebooks
>> will start to use paths and notebook names like this:
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>> /notebook/path/to/my/notebook.ipynb
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>> This will make it trivial to write the type of code you are talking
>> about.  But I think we will probably still have an actual GUI in the
>> dashboard for navigation.  We will be talking about this stuff at the
>> dev meeting in two weeks.
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> I disagree
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> If I'm on my laptop, 
> the server on rackspaces 
> and the kernels on amazon. 
> The magic don't make sense.
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> (same if the 3 are on the same machine, but it's more difficult to see if you don't know the internal)
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> -- 
> Matt
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>> Cheers,
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>> Brian
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>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Carl Smith <carl.input at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I noticed that there's still plans to add a GUI file browser to the
>>> dashboard. Can I just ask why we can't have a magic to open a
>>> notebook? The Notebook already handles every file operation, except
>>> opening notebooks, so what does adding a GUI file browser buy anyone?
>>> especially if there's some kind of shell or single cell interface in
>>> the dashboard.
>>> 
>>> It'd be nice if I could call `ls` in the Notebook and have the output
>>> clickable, so each file would be a link. Clicking a directory would cd
>>> to it, clicking a notebook would open it, clicking an image would
>>> render it... something like that. That way user could still click
>>> their way around the file system, just hitting links instead of icons,
>>> and adding icons is easy in a browser, but probably going a bit too
>>> far.
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>> -- 
>> Brian E. Granger
>> Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
>> bgranger at calpoly.edu and ellisonbg at gmail.com
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