[sugar] Sucrose 0.81.2 Development Release

[Simon Schampijer]

The Glucose modules[1] from Sucrose 0.81.2 went into the olpc image joyride-2024. 
Here are instructions[2] how to update and how to get the Fructose modules[3].

[1] Glucose modules
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy#Glucose:_The_base_Sugar_environment

[2] Update instructions 
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.81.2#Instructions_to_test_in_olpc_joyride

[3] Fructose modules
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy#Fructose:_A_set_of_demonstration_activities

Best,
    Simon


Simon Schampijer wrote:
> Watch out your teeth!
> 
> The new Sucrose[1] 0.81.2 Development Release is out!
> 
> This release has many great improvements. Pippy and the Log activity fixed the 
> platform specific issues and could be added to the release. Refinements has been 
> made to the activity list view like adding installation dates of the activities, 
> sorting by dates and searching in the list of activities.
> 
> The control panel has been refactored and has now a graphical interface as well as 
> the command line one. Refactoring work has been done as well in the bundlebuilder 
> and a speaker device has been added to the frame so you can control the volume of 
> your speakers from there. In Etoys new phrases have been marked for translation to 
> improve internationalization even more.
> 
> Make sure to check out the new palette features for links in the web-activity and 
> try to quit the terminal activity by quitting the shell. As another little smoke 
> test you could use the control panel to change your buddy to use a light fill color 
> and check that the chat activity uses black text for your messages then.
> 
> Finally, if the frame pops up unintentionally during these actions you can find now 
> a slider to set different activation delays for the frame in the control panel.
> 
> More detailed news are at [2] and as well at the end of this email.
> 
> If your feature missed that train, don't be sad the next cycle is already on in two 
> weeks[3].
> 
> Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!
> 
> In behalf of the sugar community,
>     Your release team
> 
> 
> [1] Sucrose
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy#Sucrose:_The_interface.2C_plus_a_set_of_demonstration_activities
> 
> [2] Release Notes: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/CurrentRelease/Sucrose
> 
> [3] Sucrose Release Schedule: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Roadmap#Schedule
> 
> ___________________________________________________________
> 
> sugar-base
>      * Fix logging (Tomeu)
> 
> sugar-toolkit
>      * Add an installation time property to the activity bundle (Tomeu)
>      * Reveal palettes on right-click (Eben)
>      * Refactor bundlebuilder and add dist_source command (Marco)
>      * Enable journal to do open-with for activity bundles (Chema)
>      * Add timezone, hot_corners, warm_edges to the profile (Simon)
> 
> sugar
>      * Search in the activity list (Tomeu)
>      * Add installation date in the activity list (Tomeu)
>      * Improve performance of the activity list (Tomeu)
>      * Sort activities in the list and ring by installation date (Tomeu)
>      * Speaker device (Martin Dengler)
>      * Graphical frontend for the control panel (Simon)
>      * Rotate the dpad keys when the screen rotate button is pressed (Erik Garrison)
> 
> sugar-artwork
>      * Skipped this release
> 
> sugar-datastore
>      * Skipped this release
> 
> sugar-presence-service
>      * Skipped this release
> 
> etoys
>      * more translatable phrases
>      * minor tile fixes
> 
> journal-activity
>      * Arabic translations update (Khaled)
>      * Italian translations update (Carlo)
>      * Misc small fixes (Simon and Tomeu)
> 
> Fructose modules
>      * read-activity 46
>      * chat-activity 40
>      * terminal-activity 12
>      * web-activity 89
>      * etoys-activity 81
>      * write-activity 55
>      * calculate-activity 19
>      * log-activity 9
>      * pippy-activity 22
> 
> Fructose news
> 
> read-activity
>      * Skipped this release
> 
> chat-activity
>      * #5767: Use black text on light fill colors (matthias)
> 
> terminal-activity
>      * #5520: Make the activity exit when the user exits the shell. (sayamindu)
> 
> web-activity
> 89
>      * Make the object chooser transient on the activity window. (tomeu)
> 88
>      * Add Edit toolbar (tomeu)
>      * Add Follow link item to link palette (tomeu)
>      * Add palette for images (tomeu)
>      * Add a simple palette for links with an option to copy to the clipboard (tomeu)
> 
> calculate-activity
>      * Skipped this release
> 
> write-activity
>      * Skipped this release
> 
> log-activity
>      * make users non-olpc be able to read the sugar logs - this is important for 
> the activity running on non xo platforms
> 
> pippy activity
>      * Add check to not fail on new gtksourceview2 API - this is needed for the 
> activity to run on non xo platforms
> 
> 
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