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| == Introduction == | | == Introduction == |
− | Sugar 0.98 is the new version of the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar learning platform]. It will be released the November the 07th 2012 (see [[0.98/Roadmap#Schedule]] for details). | + | Sugar 0.98 is the new version of the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar learning platform]. It was released on November 29th 2012 (see [[0.98/Roadmap#Schedule]] for details). |
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| The main changes in this cycle will be the ported Shell to use GTK+ 3 and Pygobject3 and the touch support in the UI. | | The main changes in this cycle will be the ported Shell to use GTK+ 3 and Pygobject3 and the touch support in the UI. |
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| == What is new for users == | | == What is new for users == |
| + | ===Touch support=== |
| + | The main feature this cycle was the support for touch screen devices. First of all the icons in the Views that do not have a clear primary action have been changed to reveal the Palette on left click or touch. A good example are the Ad-hoc icons. Since hovering over icons to explore their actions is not possible in a touch screen based UI the decision was to change that behaviour. The same is true for the shared activity icons or the buddy icons in the Neighbourhood and Group View. |
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| + | ===New frame behaviour=== |
| + | The Frame interaction has been modified, the learner can use three actions to reveal and hide the Frame: move the mouse into one of the corners, use the frame key on the keyboard and a swipe gesture from the top of the screen towards the centre of the the screen. |
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| + | ===New hover feedback in the Views=== |
| + | While working on the feedback for a long press on the icons in the Views (Home-, Neighbourhood and Group View) we changed the hover feedback to one coherent style in all Views: if you hover over one icon you get a light grey rectangle in the background of the icon indicating the hover over state. When you click or touch the icon it has a dark grey background. |
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| ===Alphabetical ordering in the Home View=== | | ===Alphabetical ordering in the Home View=== |
| The icons in the Home View are now ordered alphabetically. This change has been applied to the favourites view and the activities list view. | | The icons in the Home View are now ordered alphabetically. This change has been applied to the favourites view and the activities list view. |
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| + | ===Search in all Views=== |
| + | There is now the possibility to search in all the Views, the Home, the Group and the Neighbourhood View. |
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| == What's new for developers == | | == What's new for developers == |
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| + | ===sugar-build replaces sugar-jhbuild=== |
| + | Thanks to the work from Daniel Narvaez we have a new tool for building Sugar from the sources: [http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~buildbot/docs/index.html sugar-build]. This has replaced our previous tool [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Jhbuild sugar-jhbuild]. sugar-build does currently support several distributions out of the box Fedora 17, Fedora 18, Ubuntu 12.10, Debian Wheezy in both 32-bit and 64-bit. And adding a new distributions is possible and [http://sugarlabs.org/~dnarvaez/sugar-docs/build.html#adding-a-new-distribution documented] as well. Try it out, you will love the ease and reliability of this new tool. |
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| === Activity Authors guidelines === | | === Activity Authors guidelines === |
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| * The RadioTooolButton expects the "icon_name" property instead of the "named_icon". The API of ToolButton, RadioToolButton and ToggleToolButton has been adjusted to override the icon-name property and add an Icon instance with the set_icon_widget method. [http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/commit/fe11a3aa23c0e7fbc3c0c498e147b0a20348cc12 This change] brings consistent behaviour for all those widgets. | | * The RadioTooolButton expects the "icon_name" property instead of the "named_icon". The API of ToolButton, RadioToolButton and ToggleToolButton has been adjusted to override the icon-name property and add an Icon instance with the set_icon_widget method. [http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/commit/fe11a3aa23c0e7fbc3c0c498e147b0a20348cc12 This change] brings consistent behaviour for all those widgets. |
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− | Please see as well the [[0.96/Notes#API]] for which API has been removed during the switch from toolkit-gtk2 to toolkit-gtk3. | + | Please see as well the [[0.96/Notes#API]] for which API has been removed during the switch from toolkit-gtk2 to toolkit-gtk3, notably is for example the removal of the deprecated _shared_activity member in the activity base class, collaboration might be broken if you do not port that over. |
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| === Tutorials === | | === Tutorials === |
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| === <abbr title="Glucose, the base Sugar environment">Glucose</abbr> modules === | | === <abbr title="Glucose, the base Sugar environment">Glucose</abbr> modules === |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.97.8.tar.bz2 sugar 0.97.8] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.98.3.tar.bz2 sugar 0.98.3] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.97.7.tar.bz2 sugar-toolkit-gtk3 0.97.7] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.98.3.tar.bz2 sugar-toolkit-gtk3 0.98.3] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.97.7.tar.bz2 sugar-artwork 0.97.7] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.98.2.tar.bz2 sugar-artwork 0.98.2] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.97.1.tar.bz2 sugar-datastore 0.97.1] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.98.1.tar.bz2 sugar-datastore 0.98.1] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.97.1.tar.bz2 sugar-toolkit 0.97.1] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.98.0.tar.bz2 sugar-toolkit 0.98.0] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-base/sugar-base-0.96.0.tar.bz2 sugar-base 0.96.0] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-base/sugar-base-0.98.0.tar.bz2 sugar-base 0.98.0] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-5.0.2403.tar.gz etoys 5.0.2403] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-5.0.2408.tar.gz etoys 5.0.2408] |
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| === <abbr title="Fructose, the base set of demonstration activities">Fructose</abbr> modules === | | === <abbr title="Fructose, the base set of demonstration activities">Fructose</abbr> modules === |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Browse/Browse-144.tar.bz2 Browse 144] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Browse/Browse-149.tar.bz2 Browse 149] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Read/Read-104.tar.bz2 Read 104] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Read/Read-106.tar.bz2 Read 106] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-156.tar.bz2 TurtleArt 156] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-167.tar.bz2 TurtleArt 167] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Pippy/Pippy-49.tar.bz2 Pippy 49] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Pippy/Pippy-51.tar.bz2 Pippy 51] |
| * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Calculate/Calculate-41.tar.bz2 Calculate 41] | | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Calculate/Calculate-41.tar.bz2 Calculate 41] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Chat/Chat-77.tar.bz2 Chat 77] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Chat/Chat-78.tar.bz2 Chat 78] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Paint/Paint-47.tar.bz2 Paint 47] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Paint/Paint-53.tar.bz2 Paint 53] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Jukebox/Jukebox-26.tar.bz2 Jukebox 26] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Jukebox/Jukebox-29.tar.bz2 Jukebox 29] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Log/Log-30.tar.bz2 Log 30] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Log/Log-32.tar.bz2 Log 32] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/ImageViewer/ImageViewer-53.tar.bz2 ImageViewer 53] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/ImageViewer/ImageViewer-54.tar.bz2 ImageViewer 54] |
− | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Write/Write-81.tar.bz2 Write 81] | + | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Write/Write-84.tar.bz2 Write 84] |
| * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Terminal/Terminal-41.tar.bz2 Terminal 41] | | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Terminal/Terminal-41.tar.bz2 Terminal 41] |
| * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-116.tar.gz Etoys 116] | | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-116.tar.gz Etoys 116] |