[OLPC-Philippines] Fwd: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] OLPC OS 10.1.3 final release

[Cherry Withers]

Oops...sorry for the double post! You must've beat me to it by a coupla
seconds Jerome. :-)
On Jan 16, 2011 3:10 AM, "jgotangco at gmail.com" <jgotangco at gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
> Date: Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:59 PM
> Subject: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] OLPC OS 10.1.3 final release
> To: OLPC Development <devel at lists.laptop.org>
> Cc: iaep <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>, testing at lists.laptop.org, Sugar
> Devel <Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>, support-gang at laptop.org
>
>
> Dear olpc community,
>
> we are very pleased to announce build os860 as the final 10.1.3
> release build for XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops!
>
> This is an update to software release 10.1.2 that fixes important bugs
> and includes some new improvements (listed at the bottom of this
> mail). The release is based on Fedora 11 and contains the latest Sugar
> 0.84 and the GNOME desktop.
>
> The full release notes can be found at [1]. Instructions for
> installing the release on an XO can be found at [2].
>
> Many thanks to everyone -- testers, translators, documenters,
> developers and others -- who contributed to this release!
>
> On behalf of the OLPCA-team,
>   Simon
>
> [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3
> [2] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3#Installation
>
>
>
> ==New features==
>
> ===Collaboration "under a tree" on XO-1.5===
> We have significantly improved collaboration when XO-1.5 is used with
> no Access Points available ("under a tree"). The Neighborhood View now
> shows three default Ad-hoc networks (for channels 1, 6, and 11) in
> user-friendly icons, and XOs will auto-connect without user
> intervention. This behavior is similar to the "mesh" behavior on XO-1.
>
> ===Sharing/Backup Journal entries using a mass storage device===
> You may now share Journal entries with another learner using a [[USB
> drive]] or SD card. The user experience is: Martin wants to give a
> picture he has been drawing to Simon. He plugs in his USB drive and
> copies the Journal entry on the drive. Simon plugs in Martin's drive
> in his laptop. The entry will be shown with Martin's XO color on the
> drive. Simon copies Martin's entry into his Journal.
>
> You can use this feature to backup Journal entries to a USB drive or SD
card.
>
> ===Connect your XO to external projectors and monitors===
> We have added support for USB2VGA adapters. You can now connect an XO
> to a projector over a USB2VGA adapter and project what is on your XO
> screen onto a screen or for many people to see.
>
> ===Screen Rotation on XO-1.5===
> On XO-1.5 it is now possible to rotate the screen using the 'rotate'
> button. This allows learners to use the XO in ebook mode.
>
> ===Protected Activities Support===
> In this build certain activities are protected from being deleted by
> accident. In the activity list in the home view the erase option is
> disabled for those. Protected activities are: Browse, Terminal, Log,
> Write, ImageViewer and Record.
>
> ===Better interaction between GNOME and Sugar===
> Switching between Sugar and GNOME user interfaces is smoother. Changes
> of settings in GNOME now do not affect Sugar, and vice-versa.
>
> The ~/Activities directory is now hidden from the user in GNOME, to
> prevent accidental deletions that could harm Sugar. The networking
> settings are now synchronized so enabling/disabling networking is
> unified.
>
> Users can now change GNOME panels and fonts without risk of breaking
> GNOME -- invalid settings are reset on restart.
>
> The dialog to set a GNOME keyring password when connecting to a secure
> wireless network has been disabled.
>
> ===Browse===
> A home button has been added into the Browse toolbar. The button
> returns to the home page, where important links are.
>
> A busy cursor has been added for when a page is loading. This was
> present in 8.2.1 but missing from 10.1.2.
>
> Finally, previews for downloaded images have been added, so that the
> Journal will show appropriate thumbnails of downloaded images.
>
> ===Paint===
> The Paint activity has been improved a lot:
>
> * The cursor has been enhanced and realigned,
> * Text tool has been improved
> * New filters: invert colors and mirror effects
> * Tool size and shape are shown
> * Improvements to copy and paste
>
> ===Read===
> Scrolling has been improved.  The up and down directional keypad to
> the left of the XO display will now scroll, which is especially useful
> if the laptop is in ebook mode. Using the fn key with the up and down
> arrow keys will now scroll by page.
>
> ===Write===
> You can now paste images into Write. Images can be copied from Browse,
> Paint or Write. You can now put images into tables and export to PDF.
>
> The style list has been reordered to place paragraph text styles
> before heading styles.
>
> ===Wikipedia===
> Page loading has been sped up and several smaller fixes made.
>
> ===Scratch===
> A new camera plugin adds importing from camera on XO-1.
>
> ===Activity Updates===
> We included the latest versions of Calculate, Colors, Distance, Etoys,
> Help, InfoSlicer, Jukebox, Labyrinth, Memorize, Physics, Pippy, Turtle
> Art and Typing Turtle.
>
> ===System Lid Behavior===
> When the lid is closed on the XO, the laptop will suspend its
> operations and turn off the screen.  Historically re-opening the lid
> has turned on the screen and woken up the laptop for normal use.  In
> order to avoid a problem where stacked XO units may accidentally turn
> each other back on, this wake-up behavior has been disabled.  To wake
> up the laptop from suspend press the power button once.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Jerome G.
> http://gotangco.com
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