0.84/Sugar

Sugar

Introduction

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News

• reduced memory usage
• performance improvements in startup

Detailed changes

0.83.1

• Modularized the shell to have every major UI component like the frame the home view and the control panel reside in his own module and be self contained
• Use gconf as a backend to store the profile.
• Several heavy shell dependency have been dropped.
• Merge of the journal and of the shell service into the shell
• "Battery fully charged" shows up in error (battery is removed) #5867
• Jabber server description is ambiguous #8623
• Should re-request closed random views #8900
• Should request random activities/buddies to populate the mesh view #7545
• Clipboard objects need meaningful labels #5751
• Dragging within the clipboard creates duplicate clippings #8606
• Cursor lock while dragging icons in Home (or anywhere) #7408
• Tray control should support highlight on drag #8604

0.83.3

• Fix uninstalling activities from the home view
• Make sugar control panel support selection of multiple languages d.l.o
• Add saving and loading of the nm connections and support for WPA #8876
• Implement a global handler for the view source key
• Initial implementation of activity notifications
• Wireless network frame device #9
• Make sugar control panel support selection of multiple languages #8876
• Update Icon in the AP palette #7
• Control Panel needs to list wireless firmware version #8131

0.83.4

• Fix language parsing on Gentoo and ALTLinux #81 (alsroot)
• Change the FRAME_POSITION_RELATIVE to follow eben's spec
• exec sugar-session
• Add wired device icon for the frame
• Only show wireless device in the frame when connecting/connected
• Use jabber.sugarlabs.org by default
• Only create a keydialog for the activating connection
• CanvasPulsingIcon: Don't begin pulse loop on resume if not pulsing
• Use g_timeout_add_seconds() for power efficiency
• Add the journal button to the volumes toolbar in the journal
• Remove jarabe/model/volume.py and use gio instead
• First try at restoring removable devices support in the journal
• make the image viewer activity the default one for iamges

0.83.5

• Make the journal entries in the favorites palette resumable
• Simplify the constants used to identify favorite layouts
• Separate debug settings from xsession #163
• Add logout option #207 to xomenu (sayamindu, icon by eben)
• Change jabber server without sugar restart #142
• About my XO -> About my Computer
• Fix setting the timezone in debian #196
• Autoconnect to AP that we connected to last #8
• Add a favorites mode setting for deciding if the favorites view resumes by default or not
• Resume by default the last activity from the favorites view
• Implement filtering by file type for removable devices
• Filter by timestamp, not by mtime #132
• Add support for text queries on removable devices
• Dont abort if we cannot read a file from a removable device
• Add a favorite filter to the journal toolbar
• Sanitize the file name when we copy to removable devices
• Refresh the detailed view when the entry changes #36
• Refresh full metadata when editing so we dont lose properties #38
• Focus Search is not exposed via dbus anymore #89
• 'Open with' does not work for clipboard item #131
• Install bundles when they get into the journal #165
• Add Resume item to the file transfer palette
• Fix erase button in the journal #126
• Following eben's spec for the device positions

0.83.7

• Resume Activity list is not updated directly #322
• Fix network panel on XO (Sascha Silbe) #290
• Only show cp power section on xo #320
• Add logout option to the buddy menu (Sayamindu) #207
• Launch activity also when clicking on the palette icon #335
• Use the activity icon for the 'Start new' palette item #314
• Close the object chooser when the activity is closed #329
• Dates in journal are not translated #55
• Don't mute when right-clicking the speaker icon #278
• Correctly cache the connection to the OHM service #249
• Show launcher screen immediately after the user clicks to start an activity #243
• Use documend-send icon (Gary C Martin) #227
• Try harder to get an icon for a clipping
• Hide the journal activity in the home view #87
• Correctly initialize the TrayIcon
• Add 'View Details' option to object palette in journal
• Translation updates
• Hide OLPC-specific fields on non-xo machines #133
• Add a 'Clear search' button to 'No matching entries' message #266
• Correctly detect when a query in the journal is empty #255
• Avoid launching two instances of the same activity instance #238
• Add start-with option to objectpalette in the journal
• Fix dnd of icons in the favorite view #213
• Right click on AP should reveal palette not connect to AP #10
• Display space used and left in the volume palette in the journal #33
• Don't update the zoom level when a dialog window pops up
• Fix filtering the objectchooser with data types #219

0.83.8

• Revert "Add a favorites mode setting for deciding if the favorites view resumes by default or not"
• Listen for changes in the Activities dir and install/uninstall activities accordingly #235
• Fix sorting of favorite icons by installation_time #387
• View Source: Option and accelerator in activity frame palette
• View Source: Use activity icon outline for Bundle Source, part of #360
• View Source: Hide Python Bytecode files #361
• Use the file transfer icons
• Many new translations!

0.84.0

• Focus rectangle corners should be rounded #406
• Restore minimal .xol support #459
• Check the activity version and replace an older version upon download #464
• Friendstray: icon reacting to right click #441
• Network device icons don't react on right click #463
• Don't open a launcher window when that activity is already running #426
• Fall back to application-octet-stream for unknown types #458
• Show a generic icon for clippings, if available #454
• Don’t add_bundle on activity dir change when installed already #442
• Make mute sound code togglable
• Keyhandler: Map XF86Search to the journal search
• Keyhandler: Catch all exceptions (thanks to Sascha Silbe)
• Give time for exit to execute when closing the emulator #435
• Dont hardcode the maximum amount of entries to cache in the journal #72
• Add standard ‘Print’ shortcut to take a screenshot
• Use keyboard specific keys to set the volume #430
• Update to new DBus policy #307
• Fix palette appearance on right-click #403
• Switch to existing instance of an activity if it’s already running #410

Credits

Tomeu Vizoso