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= Sucrose 0.83.4 Release Notes =

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Since, this date is Feature, API, String freeze everyone was busy getting their features in.

From a user point of view we want to highlight on the following:

From a user point of view we want to highlight the following:

=== Naming alert on journal entry creation ===

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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.

=== ~~Make the journal entries~~ in the ~~favorites palette resumable~~ ===

[[Image:NamingAlert.png‎]]

~~The favorites view in~~ the home view ~~displays~~ the ~~last entries for each~~ activity ~~and allows easy resuming~~. You can decide if ~~this is~~ the ~~default beavior~~ in the ~~favorites~~ view palette ~~at the top right~~.

=== 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.

[[Image:ResumeEntry.png‎]]

You can decide if you want the activity icons to represent the last journal entry with a new setting in the favourites view palette:

[[Image:SetResumeOption.png‎]]

=== Journal ===

Tomeu has been doing a wonderful 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.

Tomeu Vizoso has been doing a wonderful work of bringing the journal implementation closer to its design.The Object chooser can now be filtered by data type.

[[Image:ObjctChooser.png‎]]

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 ~~widgets~~ ===

[[Image:FavoriteEntry.png‎]]

~~Benzea~~ added a new ColorToolButton widget. It is already in use in the Write activity to select a ~~color~~ for the text.

=== 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.

[[Image:ColorToolButton.png‎]]

=== 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 added the possibility to change the jabber server without restarting Sugar.

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.

=== ~~Network Manager~~ ===

=== 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.

~~Tech~~:

[[Image:Logout.png‎]]

* separate debug settings from xsession #163

=== New Logic for the devices positions ===

* remove the ~~hacks for asking the X server for screenshots~~ and ~~use gtk~~.~~Widget~~.~~get_snapshot() instead~~

The logic to position the frame devices has been reworked. Plug in your devices and try it out.

* Trivial port to GIO instead of GnomeVFS

[500 external devices eg. USB drive]

* Don't print logs to tty instead of shell.~~log in the emulator~~

[400 3rd party devices eg. speech]

[300 transient connection devices eg. AP]

[200 transient devices eg. camera]

[100 static devices eg. battery]

~~User~~:

[[Image:FrameDevices.png‎]]

* add logout option #207 to xomenu (sayamindu, icon by eben)

* autoconnect to AP that we connected to last #8

* File transfer

* add Resume item to the file transfer palette

* following eben's spec for the device positions

* #140 Crash when joining a shared Read

=== 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.

[[Image:Read toc.png|480px]]

Thanks everyone for ~~the~~ great contributions!

=== 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 ==

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=== read ===

* {{OlpcBug|7343}} Enable a horizontal scroll bar

* {{OlpcBug|2837}} ~~Imprement~~ TOC navigation in Read (sayamindu)

* {{OlpcBug|2837}} Implement TOC navigation in Read (sayamindu)

* {{Bug|145}} Prevent object chooser appearing when joining a shared session

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== Fructose dependencies ==

* [http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/hulahop/hulahop-0.4.8.tar.bz2 hulahop 0.4.8]

~~[[Category:DevelopmentTeam/Release]]~~

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+<noinclude>{{GoogleTrans-en}}{{TOCright}}</noinclude>[[Category:Release Notes]]
 = Sucrose 0.83.4 Release Notes =
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 Since, this date is Feature, API, String freeze everyone was busy getting their features in.
-From a user point of view we want to highlight on the following:
+From a user point of view we want to highlight the following:
 === Naming alert on journal entry creation ===
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 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.
-=== Make the journal entries in the favorites palette resumable ===
+[[Image:NamingAlert.png‎]]
-The favorites view in the home view displays the last entries for each activity and allows easy resuming. You can decide if this is the default beavior in the favorites view palette at the top right.
+=== 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.
+[[Image:ResumeEntry.png‎]]
+You can decide if you want the activity icons to represent the last journal entry with a new setting in the favourites view palette:
+[[Image:SetResumeOption.png‎]]
 === Journal ===
-Tomeu has been doing a wonderful 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.
+Tomeu Vizoso has been doing a wonderful work of bringing the journal implementation closer to its design.The Object chooser can now be filtered by data type.
+[[Image:ObjctChooser.png‎]]
+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 widgets ===
+[[Image:FavoriteEntry.png‎]]
-Benzea added a new ColorToolButton widget. It is already in use in the Write activity to select a color for the text.
+=== 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.
+[[Image:ColorToolButton.png‎]]
 === 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 added the possibility to change the jabber server without restarting Sugar.
+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.
-=== Network Manager ===
+=== 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.
-Tech:
+[[Image:Logout.png‎]]
-    * separate debug settings from xsession #163
+=== New Logic for the devices positions ===
-    * remove the hacks for asking the X server for screenshots and use gtk.Widget.get_snapshot() instead
+The logic to position the frame devices has been reworked. Plug in your devices and try it out.
-    * Trivial port to GIO instead of GnomeVFS
+ [500 external devices eg. USB drive]
-    * Don't print logs to tty instead of shell.log in the emulator
+ [400 3rd party devices eg. speech]
+ [300 transient connection devices eg. AP]
+ [200 transient devices eg. camera]
+ [100 static devices eg. battery]
-User:
+[[Image:FrameDevices.png‎]]
-    * add logout option #207 to xomenu (sayamindu, icon by eben)
-    * autoconnect to AP that we connected to last #8
-    * File transfer
-       * add Resume item to the file transfer palette
-    * following eben's spec for the device positions
-    * #140 Crash when joining a shared Read
+=== 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.
+[[Image:Read toc.png|480px]]
-Thanks everyone for the great contributions!
+=== 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 ==
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 === read ===
 * {{OlpcBug|7343}} Enable a horizontal scroll bar
-* {{OlpcBug|2837}} Imprement TOC navigation in Read (sayamindu)
+* {{OlpcBug|2837}} Implement TOC navigation in Read (sayamindu)
 * {{Bug|145}} Prevent object chooser appearing when joining a shared session
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 == Fructose dependencies ==
 * [http://dev.laptop.org/pub/sugar/sources/hulahop/hulahop-0.4.8.tar.bz2 hulahop 0.4.8]
-[[Category:DevelopmentTeam/Release]]