0.84/0.84.0 Notes

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Sucrose 0.84.0 Release Notes

Announcement

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!

Compatibility

When you upgrade a computer running an earlier version,

• The old datastore will be updated to the new format.
• Your old profile (in .sugar/default/config) will be imported into GConf

If you later downgrade from Sucrose 0.83.x to an earlier version,

• The datastore is incompatible
• You will be prompted to enter all your profile settings like you are on first boot

Most of the activities in Sucrose 0.83.x should be compatible with Sucrose 0.82 , the version shipped with XO Software Release 8.2.0. An exception is Browse, which depends on new versions of XULRunner and Hulahop. Read likewise may soon depend on a new version of Evince

Glucose modules

• sugar-toolkit 0.83.4
• sugar 0.83.5
• sugar-artwork 0.83.3
• sugar-base 0.83.3
• sugar-datastore 0.83.2
• sugar-presence-service 0.84.0
• etoys 4.0.2205-2

Glucose news

sugar-presence-service

• 0.84.0 Final release
• No changes since 0.83.3

sugar-artwork

• add system-logout icon (part of #207)

Fructose modules

• read 63
• chat 62
• terminal 23
• imageviewer 5
• jukebox 7
• turtleart 39
• browse 103
• etoys 99
• write 61
• calculate 28
• log 17
• pippy 25

Fructose news

terminal

• Change default font size to 10 from 8
• New translations

calculate

• Support 'real' scientific notation #4250
• Add switching between exponential/scientific notation
• Allow changing of number of displayed digits
• Change cursor on equations to Hand #6612
• Fix fall-through of unhandled CTRL keys (eg CTRL+Q)
• Add recursion detection
• Fixed error-handling bug

read

• #7343 Enable a horizontal scroll bar
• #2837 Implement TOC navigation in Read (sayamindu)
• #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
• #3060 Filter object chooser so it shows only images
• #8972 Save to OpenDocument if we cannot export in the original format

imageviewer

• Remove hacks needed because of d.sl.o #258 (Tomeu)
• New languages and translations

jukebox

• share/keep button hidden
• new translations added

turtleart

• updated de and sv artwork

Fructose dependencies

• hulahop 0.4.8