0.84/0.83.1 Notes

Sucrose 0.83.1 Release Notes

Announcement

"Enhancements to the clipboard to provide visual consistency with the Sugar environment"

Glucose modules

• sugar-toolkit 0.83.1
• sugar 0.83.1
• sugar-artwork 0.83.1
• sugar-base 0.83.1
• sugar-datastore 0.83.0
• sugar-presence-service 0.83.1
• etoys 3.0.2160

Glucose news

sugar-toolkit

• Mark modules as STABLE/UNSTABLE/DEPRECATED
• #8420 Failure to handle 404 in ChunkedGlibHTTPRequestHandler
• #7649 Activities needs to access sugar-toolbox's members directly
• #8617 Clipboard scroll buttons icons point left/right, should point up/down
• #8604 Tray control should support highlight on drag
• #8840 Can't join shared activity
• #8674 8.2-764, Software Update erased complete /home/olpc/Activities directory
• #8626 Icons overlap unnecessarily in crowded neighborhood view.
• #8563 Sugar Palette doesn't handle 'table menus'.
• #8532 SIGCHLD fights with threads.
• #8485 Shell navigation leaks
• #8375 gst usage in the shell wastes 2.6mb
• #8394 sugar shell leaks presence service info
• #8469 palette.menu is leaked
• #8394 sugar shell leaks presence service info
• #8392 Remove "dynamic" font height computation
• #5428 downloads not starting in Browse due to old compreg.dat
• #7999 7+% of shell startup time is spent in `grab' of sugar._sugarext.KeyGrabber
• #8000 Pulsing icon on activity launch significantly slows activity start-up
• #7270 setup release does not update the bundle number
• #7959 gettext translations slows journal's scrolling
• #7733 Cannot install Wikipedia-10.xo
• #7533 Activity does not respond to ctrl-q keyboard shortcut unless the 'Activity' tab is visible

sugar

• 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
• #5867 "Battery fully charged" shows up in error (battery is removed)
• #8623 Jabber server description is ambiguous
• #8900 Should re-request closed random views
• #7545 Should request random activities/buddies to populate the mesh view
• #5751 Clipboard objects need meaningful labels.
• #8606 Dragging within the clipboard creates duplicate clippings
• #7408 Cursor lock while dragging icons in Home (or anywhere)
• #8604 Tray control should support highlight on drag

sugar-artwork

• Ensure that all common drag operations use a sugar cursor
• Generate two themes based on SUGAR_SCALING
• #8779 Merge sugar-artwork patches from debian package.
• #8778 allow prelightning of buttons

sugar-base

• Add dispatcher implementation from django
• Mark modules as STABLE

sugar-datastore

• The datastore has been rewritten, to simplify and improve maintainability. As a first step the API was not changed at all (other than removing removable devices support), so that the new implementation was swapped in without changes to activities and Sugar
• Drop for now the management of removable devices inside the DS. Removable devices support in Sugar should happen without intervention from the DS
• #8155 The datastore should hard link identical files, to handle repeated downloads of the same content without filling up NAND
• Support arbitrary metadata properties that activities wish to add #4662
• Degrade gracefully if a database gets corrupted- Basic functionality should only depend on the filesystem being available. Any other data structures (full text index) should be rebuildable from the filesystem #6269

sugar-presence-service

• #7581: Don't ignore buddies without keys. This improve interoperability with non Sugar clients.
• #7849: Display PS version in the log.
• Use gconf to get Sugar profile settings.
• #8444: Don't rely on the roster to check if a contact handle is channel specific or not - so PS will properly create Buddy objects discovered using Gadget. Furthermore, this workaround has the nice side effect to improve compatibility with bugged shared roster (as the one of ejabberd).
• #5618: Discard invalid handles if InspectHandles failed.

etoys

This version copes with the datastore using byte arrays for strings, thus allowing to resume again

Fructose modules

• read-activity 60
• chat-activity 60
• terminal-activity 20
• browse-activity 100
• etoys-activity 96
• write-activity 60
• calculate-activity 25
• log-activity 16
• pippy-activity 25

Fructose news

read-activity

• The version bump is to allow for stable releases after Read-52 which is the current stable release.
• #8350 Use journal object picker if not resuming a file
• #7017 Read sharing can deadlock.

chat-activity

• The version bump is to allow for stable releases after Chat-48 which is the current stable release.
• #8471 Can't resume a previous Chat entry with Write anymore

browse-activity

• Add a "Download image" option to the image palette (tomeu)
• Add a "Download link" option to the link palette (tomeu)
• Get downloads and upload alerts for multiple windows to work (marco)
• Handle download names with non-ascii characters #8857 (tomeu)

terminal-activity

• #4646 Systemwide keyboard shortcuts break terminal apps (e.g. nano)
• #8515 Terminal-activity: path does not contain olpc-update

Updated translations:

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Fructose dependencies

• hulahop 0.4.7

Fructose dependencies news

hulahop

Provide the ground to make downloads and uploads work for multiple instances (marco)