0.96/Feature List

Proposed Features for 0.96

These features have been proposed for the Sugar 0.96 Release cycle and await approval.

Owner	Name	Summary
Simon Schampijer	Transfer to many	This Feature will allow to transfer a Journal item to more than one person at the same time.
Gonzalo Odiard	Global Text to Speech	When the user press Alt+Shift+S the currently selected text should be said by the computer.
Simon Schampijer	Can share	This feature will make it clearer if an activity can collaborate or not.
Simon Schampijer	Display Device	A frame device to control the display. The idea is to add their an option to change the brightness and to take a screenshot. Both actions are only available via the keyboard as of today.
Walter Bender	Features/Write_to_journal_anytime	Replacement for the Naming Alert that lets you write to the Journal at any time while working on an activity.
Gonzalo Odiard	Features/Journal_data_tagged_private_or_public	Provide a way to identify Journal entries as private for the owner or public.
Walter Bender	Features/Multiple_home_views	Option to have different collections of activities on the Home View for formal (classroom) and informal (home) use.
Walter Bender	Features/Thumbs_View_in_Journal	Thumbs view plugin for Journal.
Walter Bender	Features/Background_image_on_home_view	Add the ability to set a background image to the Home View.
Walter Bender	Features/Journal_Volume_Toolbar_enhancement	The VolumesToolbar class in volumetoolbar.py should be extended so that Sugar activities can "mount" directories containing example projects, e.g., the samples subdirectory in Turtle Art. Thus samples will be available through the Sugar Chooser rather than having to use the GNOME file chooser.
Walter Bender	Features/Activity_specific_metadata_in_Journal	The idea is to record metadata related to the use of an activity and display it in the detail view of the Journal.

Accepted Features for 0.96

These features have been accepted by the Release Manager for the Sugar 0.96 Release.

Owner	Complete	Name	Summary	Updated
Gonzalo Odiard	0%	Evince Introspection Bindings	The pygtk bindings used until F14 to use the evince backend in Read activity, are no longer present in F16. We need use the new gi based bindings.	1-Nov-2011
Manuel Quiñones	0%	Port Browse to use WebKit through introspection	Browse and related components are switching to WebKit as its back-end technology provider.	1-Nov-2011
Simon Schampijer	0%	GTK3	Sugar needs to rebase itself on new generations of its key underlying technologies: GTK+ 3 and PyGObject Introspection.	1-Nov-2011

Feature Process

• The process for adding, proposing, and accepting new features into Sugar is on the Features/Policy page.
• The deadline for proposing and completing new features is the Feature Freeze on the 0.96/Roadmap
• Feature pages in process but not targeted for a particular release can be found in Category:Feature Page Incomplete