Attendees

Elaine, Eric, Conrad, TomG, Scooter, TomF

Agenda

• UCSF security
• "Experimental Commands" tool
• Updates [All]
• Chimera2 guinea pigs
• wx vs. qt5, round N
• color name matching
• Translating UI to commands
• help
• toolshed web site

Discussion

• "Experimental Commands" tool
  • For "core" experimental commands
  • For experimental tools, their commands go with the tool
  • Need command to identify which tool registered which commands
  • Conrad will look into implementation (medium priority)
• Updates
  • Greg changed command registration description API
  • TomG added help menu entries for documentation
    • displays in system web browser
    • Greg will rename "help" to "usage" and make "help" bring up Chimera2 HTML window displaying command help text
    • Documentation is now included in distribution
  • Tom is working on getting Linux Chimera2 to run out of the box
    • Complete distribution with required libraries
    • Greg will make a "real" Linux installer soon
• Chimera2 guinea pigs
  • Ezra wanted a Linux version but was scared into finding a Mac
  • Work with Peter Rose for start-up view?
    • Discuss with Ezra?
    • Use largest inertia direction for initial view?
  • Matt Baker (Wah Chiu lab) asked about Chimera2 for Gorgon
• wx vs. qt5, round N
  • Q: What is the fee for a 5-developer license and what is the cost of annual renewal for such license? Is there an academic discount?
  • Q: Can third parties develop free extensions to our application without a commercial license?
  • Q: Is the commercial PyQt documentation different from the GPL version? If not, why is it not redistributable (just out of curiosity)?
• color name matching
  • Color names are case sensitive, with standard color names all in lower case
  • "style" command should have parallel syntax to "color" command
  • Change color name shortening currently to match shortest color name instead of first alphabetic match
• Meeting adjourned
• Translating UI to commands
• help
• toolshed web site

Action Items

• Need to change Chimera2 version from 2.0 to 0.1
• Decide on how to handle ambiguity (All)
• Conrad will discuss toolshed implementation with Greg. Set up a web site on plato for tool distribution.
• Conrad will send email asking about wx "git pull" request status