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<span style="font-size:188%">Sucrose 0. | <span style="font-size:188%">Sucrose 0.98 Release Notes</span> | ||
== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
Sugar 0.98 is the new version of the [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar learning platform]. It | 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). | ||
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. | ||
== 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. | |||
===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. | |||
===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. | |||
===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. | |||
===Search in all Views=== | |||
There is now the possibility to search in all the Views, the Home, the Group and the Neighbourhood View. | |||
== What's new for developers == | == What's new for developers == | ||
===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. | |||
=== Activity Authors guidelines === | === Activity Authors guidelines === | ||
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=== API === | === API === | ||
Please see the [[0.96/Notes#API]] for which API has been removed during the switch from toolkit-gtk2 to toolkit-gtk3. | * 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. | ||
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. | |||
=== Tutorials === | === Tutorials === | ||
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== What's new for packagers == | == What's new for packagers == | ||
* python-cjson is no longer a dependency of Sugar | * python-cjson is no longer a dependency of Sugar | ||
* latest [http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libxklavier/log/ libxklavier] is a soft dependency | |||
== Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n) == | == Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n) == | ||
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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. | * [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- | * [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- | * [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- | * [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- | * [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- | * [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. | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/etoys/etoys-5.0.2408.tar.gz etoys 5.0.2408] | ||
=== <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/Pippy/Pippy- | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Browse/Browse-149.tar.bz2 Browse 149] | ||
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/ | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Read/Read-106.tar.bz2 Read 106] | ||
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/ | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/TurtleArt/TurtleArt-167.tar.bz2 TurtleArt 167] | ||
* [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/Chat/Chat-78.tar.bz2 Chat 78] | |||
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Paint/Paint-53.tar.bz2 Paint 53] | |||
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Jukebox/Jukebox-29.tar.bz2 Jukebox 29] | |||
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Log/Log-32.tar.bz2 Log 32] | |||
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/ImageViewer/ImageViewer-54.tar.bz2 ImageViewer 54] | |||
* [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/Etoys/Etoys-116.tar.gz Etoys 116] | * [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/Etoys/Etoys-116.tar.gz Etoys 116] | ||
== How to contribute with testing == | == How to contribute with testing == | ||