Attendees

Elaine, Eric, Greg, Conrad, TomG, TomF, Scooter

Agenda

• Review action items from last meeting
• Chimera 1.11.1 release
• ChimeraX issues
• Meghan issue
• Should GUIs, e.g., model panel,
  • log command equivalents (sometimes difficult)
  • generate command text and execute as command

Discussion

• Previous action items:
  • ChimeraX licensing
    • build_tools/copyright_update.py fixes copyrights, use "make" to run with correct arguments
    • PyQt (commercial version) is now the default window system, wx is NOT included
    • Click-through license for non-commercial ChimeraX is almost working
    • We will create "Software Used in ChimeraX" page of actually used packages and add reference from documentation
      • When possible, include links to software license page instead of complete license text
• Chimera 1.11.1 release
  • Need to bring license changes from trunk to 1.11
    • Elaine will bring them from trunk to 1.11 for 1.11.1 release
  • Start 1.11.1 candidate release on Monday
• ChimeraX issues
  • Ribbon progress
    • Conrad implemented "peptide" keyword for "cartoon orient" option
    • Lots of stuff on Elaine's documentation page
    • Conrad is still working on curved (arc) strands
  • Middle-mouse drag does not work right with PyQt5.7 on the Mac
    • Middle-mouse drag is a Mac issue. Works on Windows and Linux.
    • Eric will check whether the problem has been reported in PyQt/Qt lists
      • Relevant page: ​https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/151407/
  • X3D export
    • Cylinders work
    • View point, background color are included
    • Textures are not included
    • Want instancing to reduce output size
      • Appearance nodes use instances
      • Others need to be converted
    • ​1gcn examples
    • To be done:
      • Binary x3d
      • Triangle masks
      • Instancing for geometry
      • Check performance of X3D viewers before next two items
      • Single HTML file with both viewer and model information
      • Generating shims (e.g., cobweb)
      • -- Lower priority --
      • Meshes
      • Lighting and material
      • Clip planes
      • Text
  • Need to port side view to PyQt
• Meghan issues
  • Harvest protein h-bonds from mmCIF
  • Identify ss bonds
  • Struts vs h-bonds, which subset of h-bonds/ss-bonds to use
  • TomF will get presentation and discuss with Meghan
• Should GUIs, e.g., model panel log stuff?
  • Yes.
  • Do it now for "obvious" panels like Save Dialog

Outstanding Action Items

• TomF will get answers for ChimeraX license
• Setting up ChimeraX distribution:
  1. Conrad will get copyrights into source/documentation files
  2. Greg will include PyQt in daily builds
  3. Conrad will implement click-through license
  4. Greg will create embedded software list
  5. Greg will find a prereq package that requires a copy of the license to be included but does not install it with the software