Changes

This page is meant to give you an overview of the features, enhancements and bug fixes you can expect. Furthermore it has information for developers, packagers and deployers.  

This page is meant to give you an overview of the features, enhancements and bug fixes you can expect. Furthermore it has information for developers, packagers and deployers.  

== How to contribute with testing ==

== How to contribute with [[0.94/Testing|testing]] ==

It is very important to get feedback during the development cycle to fix bugs as early as possible and to get a stable release at the end. The order of stability depends among other things as well on '''you'''.  

It is very important to get feedback during the development cycle to fix bugs as early as possible and to get a stable release at the end. The order of stability depends among other things as well on '''you'''.  

If you find bugs please report them into the [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Labs bug tracker] indicating the 0.93.x version in the ticket version field. If you have hardware from OLPC you can use one of the current development builds for testing: [http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os3/ os3] for the i686 architecture (XO 1 and XO 1.5) and [http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os41/ os41] for the new ARM hardware (XO 1.75). Hardware specific bugs especially with the new 1.75 hardware please report at the [http://dev.laptop.org/ OLPC bug tracker]. The current development version is as well available in [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16 Fedora 16] and [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Jhbuild sugar-jhbuild] (sugar* master branches).

If you find bugs please report them into the [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Labs bug tracker] indicating the 0.93.x version in the ticket version field. If you have hardware from OLPC you can use one of the current development builds for testing: [http://build.laptop.org/11.3.0/os3/ os3] for the i686 architecture (XO 1 and XO 1.5) and [http://build.laptop.org/F14-arm/os41/ os41] for the new ARM hardware (XO 1.75). Hardware specific bugs especially with the new 1.75 hardware please report at the [http://dev.laptop.org/ OLPC bug tracker]. The current development version is as well available in [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/16 Fedora 16] and [[Development_Team/Jhbuild |sugar-jhbuild]] (sugar* master branches).

== What is new for users ==

== What is new for users ==

The copy option in the Journal entry palette has been enhanced. It allows to copy to an external device and has an option to copy to the clipboard. The same enhancements have been made to the palette in the detail view. The palette for a file on an external device allows to copy to the Journal and to the clipboard. The detail view has been changed accordingly as well.

The copy option in the Journal entry palette has been enhanced. It allows to copy to an external device and has an option to copy to the clipboard. The same enhancements have been made to the palette in the detail view. The palette for a file on an external device allows to copy to the Journal and to the clipboard. The detail view has been changed accordingly as well.

In previous versions when you clicked on the icon in the detail views it copied directly to the clipboard. This functionality has been moved to the palette itself, on left click the palette is opened and the learner is presented with the copy options.

In previous versions when you clicked on the icon in the detail views it copied directly to the clipboard. This functionality has been moved to the palette itself, on left click, the palette is opened and the learner is presented with the copy options.

=== Easier way to exchange files between the Journal and the underlying file system ===

=== Easier way to exchange files between the Journal and the underlying file system ===

An option to duplicate an activity has been added to the view source alert.

An option to duplicate an activity has been added to the view source alert.

=== New startup animation ===

=== New Activity startup animation ===

Gonzalo has been working on a new startup animation using the alpha value of the icon. This fixes the issue where we did not see the startup screen immediatly after clicking on the icon and reduces the startup time a bit. Here is a short demo video of the affect, the XO on the right side is the one using the alpha value to do the animation.

Gonzalo has been working on a new startup animation for Activities using the alpha value of the icon. This fixes the issue where we did not see the startup screen immediately after clicking on the icon and reduces the startup time a bit. Here is a short demo video of the affect, the XO on the right side is the one using the alpha value to do the animation.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE7eXjsQm_g Help activity startup]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE7eXjsQm_g Help activity startup]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4qMB4eayU4 Browse startup]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4qMB4eayU4 Browse startup]

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=== Search for activities in your Favorites View ===

=== Search for activities in your Favorites View ===

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The activity search in the Favorites View has been enabled. This means faster access to your tools and more time for doing. Technically the alpha value of icons is used to differentiate between a matching and a non-matching result. The same design is used now in the neighborhood view as well.

The activity search in the Favorites View has been enabled. This means faster access to your tools and more time for doing. Technically, the alpha value of icons is used to differentiate between a matching and a non-matching result. The same design is used now in the Neighborhood view as well.

== What is new for distributors and deployers ==

== What is new for distributors and deployers ==

=== API ===

=== API ===

* The Keep button has been deprecated and should not been used in newly written code. It will be removed completely from the API later, please adjust existing activities accordingly.

* The Keep button has been deprecated and should not been used in newly written code. It will be removed completely from the API later; please adjust existing activities accordingly.

=== Activity Authors guidelines ===

=== Activity Authors guidelines ===