0.84/0.83.4 Notes

Sucrose 0.83.4 Release Notes

Announcement

Thanks everyone for the 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

• sugar-toolkit 0.83.4
• sugar 0.83.5
• sugar-artwork 0.83.3
• sugar-base 0.83.3
• sugar-datastore 0.83.2
• sugar-presence-service 0.83.3
• etoys 4.0.2205-2

Glucose news

sugar-toolkit

• separate debug settings from xsession #163
• show an alert on activity close for suggesting the user to set properties of the entry #215
• add a colorpicker to Sugar, only the ColorToolButton is public for now
• move the palette to new style gobject properties
• #3060 Add the possibility of filtering the object chooser by data type
• fix uninstallling of activities that use symlinks #171
• remove the hacks for asking the X server for screenshots and use gtk.Widget.get_snapshot() instead

sugar

• make the journal entries in the favorites palette resumable
• simplify the constants used to identify favorite layouts
• separate debug settings from xsession #163
• add logout option #207 to xomenu (sayamindu, icon by eben)
• change jabber server without sugar restart #142
• About my XO -> About my Computer
• #196 Fix setting the timezone in debian
• autoconnect to AP that we connected to last #8
• add a favorites mode setting for deciding if the favorites view resumes by default or not
• resume by default the last activity from the favorites view
• implement filtering by file type for removable devices
• #132 Filter by timestamp, not by mtime
• add support for text queries on removable devices
• dont abort if we cannot read a file from a removable device
• add a favorite filter to the journal toolbar
• sanitize the file name when we copy to removable devices
• #36 Refresh the detailed view when the entry changes
• #38 Refresh full metadata when editing so we dont lose properties
• Focus Search is not exposed via dbus anymore #89
• #131 'open with' does not work for clipboard item
• #165 Install bundles when they get into the journal
• add Resume item to the file transfer palette
• #126 Fix erase button in the journal
• following eben's spec for the device positions

sugar-base

• Don't print logs to tty instead of shell.log in the emulator
• Trivial port to GIO instead of GnomeVFS

sugar-presence-service

• #142 Restart a server-based collaboration session / switch servers on the fly

sugar-datastore

• #181 Replace deprecated os.popen by subprocess
• #140 Crash when joining a shared Read

sugar-artwork

• add activity-journal icon to artwork
• add system-logout icon (part of #207)
• add everything needed for the colorpicker. That is a small icon and a bit in the gtkrc.
• fix triangular arrows by looking at the parent_bg_color option
• add icons for object transfers

etoys

• offer full authoring-tools menu to all users
• make Anthy based Japanese input work
• add About flap on start screen
• enable screen scaling a bit more eagerly
• include icons for mimetypes

Fructose modules

• read 63
• chat 62
• terminal 21
• imageviewer 5
• jukebox 6
• turtleart 23
• browse 103
• etoys 99
• write 61
• calculate 28
• log 16
• pippy 25

Fructose news

calculate

• Support 'real' scientific notation #4250
• Add switching between exponential/scientific notation
• Allow changing of number of displayed digits
• Change cursor on equations to Hand #6612
• Fix fall-through of unhandled CTRL keys (eg CTRL+Q)
• Add recursion detection
• Fixed error-handling bug

read

• #7343 Enable a horizontal scroll bar
• #2837 Imprement TOC navigation in Read (sayamindu)
• #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
• #3060 Filter object chooser so it shows only images
• #8972 Save to OpenDocument if we cannot export in the original format

Fructose dependencies

• hulahop 0.4.8