Platform Team/Sweets Distribution/0.94/Features

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The list of major features that this repository has, on top of pristine Sucrose, with information how to configure them.

Improved Telepathy related code

A part of Telepathy related code was rewritten to try to minimize regressions from Glucose-0.88 code. The goal is to make Shell's Telepathy related functionality the same level stable as it was in 0.88 before total redesigning Telepathy related code.

Blacklist Shell components

Summary

To make deployment distribution more flexible, Sweets Distribution provides functionality to blacklist usage of particular Shell components. The reason for such blacklisting is that otherwise, the only way is removing unneeded Shell components from the installation directory, i.e., upstream packages need to be patched or post-install procedures should be processed. Blacklisting makes it possible to reuse upstream Shell packages as-is and change only local client configuration.

Blocking rules

The blocking rules should be placed to [blacklist] configuration section. Each section item blacklists particular Shell component:

  • deviceicon
    Space separated list of python files, from deviceicon directory, to disable corresponding device icons;
  • cpsection
    Space separated list of directory names, from cpsection directory, to disable corresponding Control Panel sections;
  • globalkey
    Space separated list of python files, from globalkey directory, to disable corresponding global keys.

Disabled reusing of system users while registration

In pristine Sucrose, this feature is enabled by default. That means that system user will be reused as Sugar nickname while Sugar initial startup. To revert original behavior, set /desktop/sugar/user/default_nick GConf key to system.

Registration on school servers is disabled by default

Sugar Shell support registration on OLPC XS school server. Sweets Distribution does not provide OLPS XS and this functionality is disabled by default. To revert original behavior, set /schemas/desktop/sugar/show_register GConf key to true.

Closer integration with login managers

Sugar Shell will reuse language setting from GDM manager, #2603.

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