Latest revision as of 23:07, 2 July 2009

Sucrose 0.83.5 Release Notes

Announcement

This is Release Candidate 1 for the upcoming 0.84 Release - see the Development Team/Release/Roadmap#Schedule for more details. Only two more weeks to go in this release cycle. Please test this release and report all the bugs you find that we are able to fix them in time. A friendly BugSquad will be available to triage those bugs accordingly and the developers can never have enough bug food. If you have non-bug feedback about features you can use the sugar-devel mailing list to share it with us.

From a user point of view we want to highlight the following changes that have been made:

Journal

The translation of the dates in the Journal is working now again. Please verify with your favorite language that this works for you. A 'Clear search' button has been added to the 'No matching entries' message, following Eben's specification. Also the space used and left is now displayed in the volume palette in the Journal.

Journal entry palette

The journal entry palette has seen some great improvements. We have a 'View Details' option that brings you to the details of the entry directly. Also the icon for the file transfer was designed and added by Gary C. Martin. Furthermore you do not need to go to the detail view any more to select the activity you want to start or resume the entry with - this option is now available in the palette as well.

Naming Alert

When you stop an activity from the Frame the activity is resumed and one can refine the activity metadata in the Naming Alert. As well a saving error of the activity will not prevent one any more from closing the activity due to the Naming Alert.

Palettes

There were some positioning issues of the palette that got fixed. Please report back any issues you still find. Another palette related fix was that on right click on an Access Point icon we do reveal the palette as it is the behavior in all the other places in the UI and do not try to connect to the Access Point.

Keep error when displaying a file in Browse, Read, ImageViewer

This is one of my favorite fixes as this has been broken for quite a while. When trying to display for example an image in Browse or the ImageViewer there was an keep error when closing the activity.

Resume activity

Last release we added the ability to resume an activity by default instead of creating a new instance. The list of the available entries in the palette when you hover of the activity in the home view is now updated directly. As this is an interesting new feature, we would like to hear about any issues you might have with it and positive feedback of course as well.

Control Panel

We now hide any OLPC-specific fields on non-xo machines. For example in the 'About my Computer' section we display the build dependent on the distribution (i.e. Fedora). As the Power section was only relevant on the XO, it is hidden in non OLPC distributions.

Frame Devices

Right-clicking on the speaker device icon does not mute the speakers anymore.

Clipboard

Several fixes were made to the detection of images dragged and dropped to the clipboard in the Frame.

Thanks everyone for your great contributions!

Compatibility

When you upgrade a computer running an earlier version,

The old datastore will be updated to the new format.
Your old profile (in .sugar/default/config) will be imported into GConf

If you later downgrade from Sucrose 0.83.x to an earlier version,

The datastore is incompatible
You will be prompted to enter all your profile settings like you are on first boot

Most of the activities in Sucrose 0.83.x should be compatible with Sucrose 0.82 , the version shipped with XO Software Release 8.2.0. An exception is Browse, which depends on new versions of XULRunner and Hulahop. Read likewise may soon depend on a new version of Evince

Glucose modules

Glucose news

sugar-toolkit

Dates in journal are not translated #55
Keep error when displaying a file in Browse, Read, ImageViewer, etc #258
Palette positioning fixes #298
'Resume' activity window when NamingAlert is displayed #293
Naming alert prevents activity close on keep error #224

sugar

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

sugar-artwork

Add documend-send icon (Gary C Martin) #227
Add application-x-generic as a copy of application-octet-stream #13
Add icons drive-harddisk and drive

sugar-datastore

Rename the installed package from olpc.datastore to carquinyol
Only try to remove the checksum dir if it already exists

Fructose modules

Fructose news

No News.

Fructose dependencies

hulahop 0.4.8

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+<noinclude>{{GoogleTrans-en}}{{TOCright}}</noinclude>[[Category:Release Notes]]
 = Sucrose 0.83.5 Release Notes =
 == Announcement ==
-Since, this date is Feature, API, String freeze everyone was busy getting their features in.
+This is Release Candidate 1 for the upcoming 0.84 Release - see the [[Development Team/Release/Roadmap#Schedule]] for more details. Only two more weeks to go in this release cycle. Please test this release and report all the bugs you find that we are able to fix them in time. A friendly [[BugSquad]] will be available to triage those bugs accordingly and the developers can never have enough bug food. If you have non-bug feedback about features you can use the sugar-devel mailing list to share it with us.
-From a user point of view we want to highlight the following:
+From a user point of view we want to highlight the following changes that have been made:
-=== Naming alert on journal entry creation ===
-The journal's search and browsing capabilities are less useful if all entries are named the same regardless of their actual content or
-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.
-[[Image:NamingAlert.png‎]]
-=== 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 Vizoso has been doing a wonderful work of bringing the journal implementation closer to it's design.The Object chooser can now be filtered by data type.
+The translation of the dates in the Journal is working now again. Please verify with your favorite language that this works for you. A 'Clear search' button has been added to the 'No matching entries' message, following Eben's specification. Also the space used and left is now displayed in the volume palette in the Journal.
-[[Image:ObjctChooser.png‎]]
+==== Journal entry palette ====
+The journal entry palette has seen some great improvements. We have a 'View Details' option that brings you to the details of the entry directly. Also the icon for the file transfer was designed and added by Gary C. Martin. Furthermore you do not need to go to the detail view any more to select the activity you want to start or resume the entry with - this option is now available in the palette as well.
-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.
+[[Image:Gary.png‎]]
-[[Image:FavoriteEntry.png‎]]
+=== Naming Alert ===
+When you stop an activity from the Frame the activity is resumed and one can refine the activity metadata in the Naming Alert. As well a saving error of the activity will not prevent one any more from closing the activity due to the Naming Alert.
-=== New ColorToolButton Widget ===
+=== Palettes ===
-Benjamin Berg added a new ColorToolButton widget. It is already in use in the Write activity to select a colour for the text.
+There were some positioning issues of the palette that got fixed. Please report back any issues you still find. Another palette related fix was that on right click on an Access Point icon we do reveal the palette as it is the behavior in all the other places in the UI and do not try to connect to the Access Point.
-[[Image:ColorToolButton.png‎]]
-=== Control Panel===
+=== Keep error when displaying a file in Browse, Read, ImageViewer ===
-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.
+This is one of my favorite fixes as this has been broken for quite a while. When trying to display for example an image in Browse or the ImageViewer there was an keep error when closing the activity.
-=== Autoconnect to Access Point ===
+=== Resume activity ===
-NetworkManager does autoconnect on Sugar startup to the last Access Point you were connected successfully to.
+Last release we added the ability to resume an activity by default instead of creating a new instance. The list of the available entries in the palette when you hover of the activity in the home view is now updated directly. As this is an interesting new feature, we would like to hear about any issues you might have with it and positive feedback of course as well.
-=== Logout Option ===
+=== Control Panel ===
-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.
+We now hide any OLPC-specific fields on non-xo machines. For example in the 'About my Computer' section we display the build dependent on the distribution (i.e. Fedora). As the Power section was only relevant on the XO, it is hidden in non OLPC distributions.
-[[Image:Logout.png‎]]
+=== Frame Devices ===
+Right-clicking on the speaker device icon does not mute the speakers anymore.
-=== New Logic for the devices positions ===
+=== Clipboard ===
-The logic to position the frame devices has been reworked. Plug in your devices and try it out.
+Several fixes were made to the detection of images dragged and dropped to the clipboard in the Frame.
- [500 external devices eg. USB drive]
- [400 3rd party devices eg. speech]
- [300 transient connection devices eg. AP]
- [200 transient devices eg. camera]
- [100 static devices eg. battery]
-[[Image:FrameDevices.png‎]]
-=== 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]]
-=== 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!
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 * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.83.4.tar.bz2 sugar-artwork 0.83.4]
 * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-base/sugar-base-0.83.3.tar.bz2 sugar-base 0.83.3]
-* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.83.2.tar.bz2 sugar-datastore 0.83.2]
+* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.83.3.tar.bz2 sugar-datastore 0.83.3]
 * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-presence-service/sugar-presence-service-0.83.3.tar.bz2 sugar-presence-service 0.83.3]
 * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-4.0.2205-2.tar.gz etoys 4.0.2205-2]
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 === sugar-toolkit ===
 * Dates in journal are not translated {{Bug|55}}
-* Keep error when displaying a file in Browse, Read, ImageViewer, etc 2{{Bug|58}}
+* Keep error when displaying a file in Browse, Read, ImageViewer, etc {{Bug|258}}
+* Palette positioning fixes {{Bug|298}}
+* 'Resume' activity window when NamingAlert is displayed {{Bug|293}}
+* Naming alert prevents activity close on keep error {{Bug|224}}
 === sugar ===
@@ Line 105: / Line 81: @@
 * Don't mute when right-clicking the speaker icon {{Bug|278}}
 * Correctly cache the connection to the OHM service {{Bug|249}}
-* show launcher screen inmediately after the user clicks to start an activity {{Bug|243}}
+* Show launcher screen immediately after the user clicks to start an activity {{Bug|243}}
 * Use documend-send icon (Gary C Martin) {{Bug|227}}
+* Try harder to get an icon for a clipping
+* Hide the journal activity in the home view {{Bug|87}}
+* Correctly initialize the TrayIcon
+* Add 'View Details' option to object palette in journal
+* Translation updates
+* Hide OLPC-specific fields on non-xo machines {{Bug|133}}
+* Add a 'Clear search' button to 'No matching entries' message {{Bug|266}}
+* Correctly detect when a query in the journal is empty {{Bug|255}}
+* Avoid launching two instances of the same activity instance {{Bug|238}}
+* Add start-with option to objectpalette in the journal
+* Fix dnd of icons in the favorite view {{Bug|213}}
+* Right click on AP should reveal palette not connect to AP {{Bug|10}}
+* Display space used and left in the volume palette in the journal {{Bug|33}}
+* Don't update the zoom level when a dialog window pops up
+* Fix filtering the objectchooser with data types {{Bug|219}}
 === sugar-artwork ===
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 * Add application-x-generic as a copy of application-octet-stream {{Bug|13}}
 * Add icons drive-harddisk and drive
+=== sugar-datastore ===
+* Rename the installed package from olpc.datastore to carquinyol
+* Only try to remove the checksum dir if it already exists
 == Fructose modules ==
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 == Fructose news ==
+No News.
-=== calculate ===
-* Support 'real' scientific notation {{OlpcBug|4250}}
-* Add switching between exponential/scientific notation
-* Allow changing of number of displayed digits
-* Change cursor on equations to Hand {{OlpcBug|6612}}
-* Fix fall-through of unhandled CTRL keys (eg CTRL+Q)
-* Add recursion detection
-* Fixed error-handling bug
-=== read ===
-* {{OlpcBug|7343}} Enable a horizontal scroll bar
-* {{OlpcBug|2837}} Implement TOC navigation in Read (sayamindu)
-* {{Bug|145}} Prevent object chooser appearing when joining a shared session
-=== browse ===
-* use cjson instead of json (nirbheek)
-* new translations
-=== chat ===
-* use cjson instead of simple-json (nirbheek)
-* Updated translations: he, en_US, sv
-=== write ===
-* Make use of the ColorToolButton that benzea landed in sugar-toolkit
-* {{OlpcBug|3060}} Filter object chooser so it shows only images
-* {{OlpcBug|8972}} Save to OpenDocument if we cannot export in the original format
 == 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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