Sucrose 0.83.3 Release Notes

Announcement

This is our third Development Release in the 0.84 cycle. Besides all the great bug fixing that has been going into this release we want to highlight some interesting changes.

First of all, big up to the translation team for their steady ongoing work to make sugar an localized environment! Thanks to the maintainers for honouring this with new releases.

Tomeu with the help of Collabora and especially Guillaume landed the first batch of patches that bring file transfer to the journal. Though more or less working, it does still need a lot of love and polishing.

Benjamin and Marco worked together to fix the palette highlighting on tray icons. Many might have wondered for month already why the highlighting when hovering over the device icons was not working right - not it is fixed. Marco fixed as well another palette drawing issue.

Big up to the translation team for their steady ongoing work to make sugar an localized environment!

Daniel brought read back with a rebase of sugar-evince and fearless Walter can not stop coding and brought us a new version of turtleart with image caching.

Thanks everyone for their great work!

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 OLPC 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

Fix palette highlighting on tray icons. Patch by benzea, style tweaks by marcopg
Rework palette state logic. Fix #42
Use g_timeout_add_seconds() for power efficiency
Add colors to icons in menu items
Add accelerator support to menu items
Simplify activity bundle installation
Dont pop down the palette when a submenu opens

sugar

Fix language parsing on Gentoo and ALTLinux #81 (alsroot)
Change the FRAME_POSITION_RELATIVE to follow eben's spec
exec sugar-session
Add wired device icon for the frame
Only show wireless device in the frame when connecting/connected
Use jabber.sugarlabs.org by default
Only create a keydialog for the activating connection
CanvasPulsingIcon: Don't begin pulse loop on resume if not pulsing
Use g_timeout_add_seconds() for power efficiency
Add the journal button to the volumes toolbar in the journal
Remove jarabe/model/volume.py and use gio instead
First try at restoring removable devices support in the journal
make the image viewer activity the default one for iamges

sugar-base

Adding language he, bi, hu, sw, cs, sv, sk, wa
Updated translations

sugar-presence-service

#6248 Presence service broken with NetworkManager-0.7 (NM D-Bus API change)

sugar-datastore

This release just contains a bunch of stability and robustness improvements

sugar-artwork

New icon for the wired network

Fructose modules

Fructose news

read

Update to sugar-evince-2.24 API (Daniel Drake)
Updated translations: es, sl

browse

Updates in the Slovenian language

jukebox

ObjectPicker option added while directly running the activity
67 languages added :)

chat

Updated translations: es
Fix crash in _add_log when buddy is None, and make _add_log more robust (morgs)
Sugar API update: Use self.shared_activity not self._shared_activity (morgs)

turtleart

caching images -- the first time you load it, it takes about 30 seconds. subsequent loads are almost instant

terminal

Updated translations

imageviewer

New translations

Fructose dependencies

hulahop 0.4.8

0.84/0.83.3 Notes

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