0.82/Notes

Sucrose 0.82 Release Notes

What's New For Users

Graphical Control Panel

Sucrose 0.82 introduces a graphical user interface to modify the preferences. The command line interface is still available. Due to the request from many users we added an option that you can tweak the activation delay of the frame. The activation by hot corners can be turned off completely. Detailed information on each section and how to use the panel can be found here.

The main page of the control panel with the available sections

Object chooser improvements (tomeu)

The object chooser allows users to place objects from the journal into activities. In this release, we have added search, filtering, removable devices support, and a much better look.

Choosing an image to place in a Write activity

New palettes in Browse (tomeu)

Palettes provide ways to invoke actions on graphical elements, and in this release we have added to Browse two new palettes:

Palette allowing to copy images to the clipboard

Palette allowing to follow links and copy them to the clipboard

Multiple layouts in the home view and ability to move icons around (tomeu)

Users have asked insistently for a better way to organize lots of activities in the Sugar shell, so we have implemented new ways to list activities and operate on them.

Favorites organized in a ring and layout switcher

Favorites organized freely by the user

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

Thanks to members of the worldwide OLPC Translation Project, who can be found on the localization mailing list.