[ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 Release Candidate 2 (0.83.6)

[david at lang.hm]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Simon Schampijer wrote:

> Dear Sugar Community,
>
> this is Release Candidate 2 for the upcoming 0.84 Release - see the [1]
> for more details. Only one more week to go in this release cycle. Please
> test this release and report all the bugs you find that we are able to
> fix them in time. A friendly BugSquad [2] will be available to triage
> those bugs accordingly and the developers can never have enough bug
> food. If you have non-bug feedback about features you can use the
> sugar-devel mailing list to share it with us.
>
> From a user point of view we want to highlight the following changes
> that have been made:
>
> === Resume by Default ===
> Resume by default is now the way we handle activity startup. The option
> in the Favourites View palette has been removed completely. You can
> still start a new instance using the 'Start' option in the Activity palette.
>
> === View Source ===
> There has been some refinements to the View Source dialog. You can
> access it from the Activity palette in the Frame or by using
> 'Shift+Alt+V' directly.

not by Fn+space? (as marked on the keyboard)

David Lang

> The coloured activity icon represents the source of the activity
> instance. The outlined activity icon represent the bundle source for the
> activity itself, the template. We use this to help draw a distinction
> between the "activity instance" and the "activity bundle"
>
> Using the uncoloured outline to represent the bundle vs the coloured
> icon to represent an instance has been the design cue all along.
>
> === File transfer ===
> We make use of the files new file transfer files now.
>
> === Read ===
> Morgan fixed an error that was introduced due to changes in Evince.
>
> === Browse ===
> Martin Langhoff has been adding functionality to authenticate with the
> Schoolserver. When registered with the server an HTTP Cookie is created
> to ease the use of services on the Schoolserver in future sessions.
> Thanks to Daniel Drake Browse propagates the current locale now. This
> helps to use web services and pages in your mother language. Try it out
> with the [http://addons.sugarlabs.org/ addons] page for example.
>
>
> Thanks everyone for your great contributions!
>
> In behalf of the sugar community,
>    Your Release Team
>
>
> [1] The Sucrose Release Schedule can be found here
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap#Schedule
>
> [2] More Info about the BugSquad at
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad
>
> [3] You can find more details and screenshots at
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.83.6
>
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________________________
>
> Modules that changed:
>
> == Glucose news ==
>
> === sugar-toolkit ===
> * Don't try to hide the tray if the activity has none (alsroot) {{Bug|395}}
> * NamingAlert: Icon dependent on the entry type {{Bug|353}}
> * Updated Languages
>
> === sugar ===
> * Revert "Add a favorites mode setting for deciding if the favorites
> view resumes by default or not"
> * Listen for changes in the Activities dir and install/uninstall
> activities accordingly {{Bug|235}}
> * Fix sorting of favorite icons by installation_time {{Bug|387}}
> * View Source: Option and accelerator in activity frame palette
> * View Source: Use activity icon outline for Bundle Source, part of
> {{Bug|360}}
> * View Source: Hide Python Bytecode files {{Bug|361}}
> * Use the file transfer icons
> * Many new translations!
>
> === sugar-base ===
> * Many new translations!
>
> === sugar-artwork ===
> * Icon for a generic document, part of {{Bug|360}}
> * Add view source icon
>
>
> == Fructose news ==
>
> === Chat ===
> * Translation update
>
> === Read ===
> * AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'evince_embed_init'
> {{Bug|351}}
> * Translation updates.
>
> === Browse ===
> * Create a HTTP Cookie to authenticate with the Schoolserver (Martin
> Langhoff)
> * Deprecation fix: Use bundle_id instead od service_name
> * Set intl.accept_languages based on the locale (Daniel Drake)
> * New Translations
>
>
> == Fructose dependencies news==
>
> === Hulahop ===
> * hulahop_get_view_for_window implicitly converted to pointer (Dann
> Frazier) #20
>
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