[ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

Wed Jan 21 15:54:26 EST 2009

Wow!!

-walter

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Dear Sugar Community,
>
> Since, this date is Feature, API and String freeze everyone was busy
> getting their features in.
>
>  From a user point of view we want to highlight the following:
>
> === Naming alert on journal entry creation ===
> The journal's search and browsing capabilities are less useful if all
> entries are named the same regardless of their actual content or
> meaning to the user. That is why an alert has been added that encourage
> the user to set the title and other properties, like available in the
> journal detail view, of a newly created journal entry. This alert is
> only shown on the creation of a new journal entry, not on resume.
>
> === Display recent activities in the home view ===
> In order to make easier to continue past work, the home view will
> display recent entries in the activity palettes.
>
> You can decide if you want the activity icons to represent the last
> journal entry with a new setting in the favourites view palette:
>
> === Journal ===
> Tomeu Vizoso has been doing a wonderful work of bringing the journal
> implementation closer to it's design.The Object chooser can now be
> filtered by data type.
>
> A favourite filter has been added to the journal toolbar to give a
> better way of marking entries as 'important'. More regression fixes went
> into the support of removable devices after moving from maintaining an
> index file on the device to the use of POSIX calls.
>
> === New ColorToolButton Widget ===
> Benjamin Berg added a new ColorToolButton widget. It is already in use
> in the Write activity to select a colour for the text.
>
> === Control Panel===
> The 'About my XO' section has been renamed to 'About my Computer' to
> reflect the use of Sugar on non-XO hardware. Morgan Collett added the
> possibility to change the jabber server without restarting Sugar.
>
> === Autoconnect to Access Point ===
> NetworkManager does autoconnect on Sugar startup to the last Access
> Point you were connected successfully to.
>
> === Logout Option ===
> Sayamindu Dasgupta added a logout option to the xomenu. Eben Eliason
> added the accessibility of the xomenu to the groups and mesh view and to
> the friends tray in the frame.
>
> === New Logic for the devices positions ===
> The logic to position the frame devices has been reworked. Plug in your
> devices and try it out.
>  [500 external devices eg. USB drive]
>  [400 3rd party devices eg. speech]
>  [300 transient connection devices eg. AP]
>  [200 transient devices eg. camera]
>  [100 static devices eg. battery]
>
> === Table of Content Support in Read  ===
> The Read activity now shows the Table of Content for PDF files which
> support this feature. This eases navigation of large PDF files considerably.
>
> === Acknowledgment ===
> A big thanks goes to all the translators, that are working so hard to
> make Sugar a terrific localized environment and the infrastructure team
> that provides our members with tools and services to make their live easier.
>
>
> Thanks everyone for your great contributions!
>
> You can find more details and screenshots at
> [1] http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.83.4
>
> The Sucrose Release Schedule can be found here
> [2] http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap#Schedule
>
>
> In behalf of the sugar community,
>    Your Release Team
>
> _____________________________________________________
>
> == Glucose news ==
>
> === sugar-toolkit ===
> * separate debug settings from xsession {{Bug|163}}
> * show an alert on activity close for suggesting the user to set
> properties of the entry {{Bug|215}}
> * add a colorpicker to Sugar, only the ColorToolButton is public for now
> * move the palette to new style gobject properties
> * {{OlpcBug|3060}} Add the possibility of filtering the object chooser
> by data type
> * fix uninstallling of activities that use symlinks {{Bug|171}}
> * remove the hacks for asking the X server for screenshots and use
> gtk.Widget.get_snapshot() instead
>
> === sugar ===
> * make the journal entries in the favorites palette resumable
> * simplify the constants used to identify favorite layouts
> * separate debug settings from xsession {{Bug|163}}
> * add logout option {{Bug|207}} to xomenu (sayamindu, icon by eben)
> * change jabber server without sugar restart {{Bug|142}}
> * About my XO -> About my Computer
> * {{Bug|196}} Fix setting the timezone in debian
> * autoconnect to AP that we connected to last {{Bug|8}}
> * add a favorites mode setting for deciding if the favorites view
> resumes by default or not
> * resume by default the last activity from the favorites view
> * implement filtering by file type for removable devices
> * {{Bug|132}} Filter by timestamp, not by mtime
> * add support for text queries on removable devices
> * dont abort if we cannot read a file from a removable device
> * add a favorite filter to the journal toolbar
> * sanitize the file name when we copy to removable devices
> * {{Bug|36}} Refresh the detailed view when the entry changes
> * {{Bug|38}} Refresh full metadata when editing so we dont lose properties
> * Focus Search is not exposed via dbus anymore {{Bug|89}}
> * {{Bug|131}} 'open with' does not work for clipboard item
> * {{Bug|165}} Install bundles when they get into the journal
> * add Resume item to the file transfer palette
> * {{Bug|126}} Fix erase button in the journal
> * following eben's spec for the device positions
>
> === sugar-base ===
> * Don't print logs to tty instead of shell.log in the emulator
> * Trivial port to GIO instead of GnomeVFS
>
> === sugar-presence-service ===
> * {{Bug|142}} Restart a server-based collaboration session / switch
> servers on the fly
>
> === sugar-datastore ===
> * {{Bug|181}} Replace deprecated os.popen by subprocess
> * {{Bug|140}} Crash when joining a shared Read
>
> === sugar-artwork ===
> * add activity-journal icon to artwork
> * add system-logout icon (part of {{Bug|207}})
> * add everything needed for the colorpicker. That is a small icon and a
> bit in the gtkrc.
> * fix triangular arrows by looking at the parent_bg_color option
> * add icons for object transfers
>
> === etoys ===
> * offer full authoring-tools menu to all users
> * make Anthy based Japanese input work
> * add About flap on start screen
> * enable screen scaling a bit more eagerly
> * include icons for mimetypes
>
>
> == Fructose news ==
>
> === calculate ===
> * Support 'real' scientific notation {{OlpcBug|4250}}
> * Add switching between exponential/scientific notation
> * Allow changing of number of displayed digits
> * Change cursor on equations to Hand {{OlpcBug|6612}}
> * Fix fall-through of unhandled CTRL keys (eg CTRL+Q)
> * Add recursion detection
> * Fixed error-handling bug
>
> === read ===
> * {{OlpcBug|7343}} Enable a horizontal scroll bar
> * {{OlpcBug|2837}} Implement TOC navigation in Read (sayamindu)
> * {{Bug|145}} Prevent object chooser appearing when joining a shared session
>
> === browse ===
> * use cjson instead of json (nirbheek)
> * new translations
>
> === chat ===
> * use cjson instead of simple-json (nirbheek)
> * Updated translations: he, en_US, sv
>
> === write ===
> * Make use of the ColorToolButton that benzea landed in sugar-toolkit
> * {{OlpcBug|3060}} Filter object chooser so it shows only images
> * {{OlpcBug|8972}} Save to OpenDocument if we cannot export in the
> original format
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Walter Bender
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