0.84/Sugar

Sugar

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Compatibility

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Detailed changes

0.83.1

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

0.83.3

• Fix uninstalling activities from the home view
• Make sugar control panel support selection of multiple languages d.l.o
• Add saving and loading of the nm connections and support for WPA #8876
• Implement a global handler for the view source key
• Initial implementation of activity notifications
• Wireless network frame device #9
• Make sugar control panel support selection of multiple languages #8876
• Update Icon in the AP palette #7
• Control Panel needs to list wireless firmware version #8131

0.83.4

• 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

0.83.5

• 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
• Fix setting the timezone in debian #196
• 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
• Filter by timestamp, not by mtime #132
• 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
• Refresh the detailed view when the entry changes #36
• Refresh full metadata when editing so we dont lose properties #38
• Focus Search is not exposed via dbus anymore #89
• 'Open with' does not work for clipboard item #131
• Install bundles when they get into the journal #165
• Add Resume item to the file transfer palette
• Fix erase button in the journal #126
• Following eben's spec for the device positions

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