Features

Policy

This section of the wiki is for proposing and tracking new Sugar features. As described in more detail on the Policy Page, we have a process by which community ideas on how Sugar should evolve get transformed into actionable proposals.

Upcoming Stable Release Roadmap

The upcoming stable release is Sugar 0.114.

• See the 0.114/Roadmap and 0.114/Feature List

Feature status

Featured marked as "In progress" or "Idea stage" represent opportunities for developers to contribute.

Feature	Proposed by	Status
3G Support|Martin Abente|Landed
About Me|Walter Bender|Landed
Accessibility control panel|Esteban Arias|In progress
Accessibility virtual keyboard|Esteban Arias|In progess
Activity.info|Walter Bender|Idea stage
Activity Help|Kalpa Welivitigoda|Landed
Activity Objects|Aleksey Lim|Idea stage
Activity as a regular Journal Object|Aleksey Lim|Idea stage
Activity specific metadata in Journal|Walter Bender|In progress
Ad hoc Networking|Simon Schampijer|Landed
Add Information In About Computer|Gonzalo Odiard|Landed
Automatic Proxy Settings|Ariel Calzada|In progress
Automatic activity updates|Daniel Drake|Landed
Avoid surplus Activity launching|Christoph Derndorfer|Obsolete
Background image on home view|Walter Bender|Landed
Backup and Restore|Greg Smith|Landed
Buddy Positioning|Simon Schampijer|In progress
Bug Report|Aleksey Lim|Idea stage
Bulletin Board|Walter Bender|Obsolete
Can share|Simon Schampijer|Idea stage
Change home view name|James Cameron|Waiting review
Classroom management|Walter Bender|In progress
Clipboard Item Transfer|Simon Schampijer|Idea stage
Clock in Frame|Tony Forster|In progress
Comment box in journal detail view|Walter Bender|Landed
Configuring Hidden Wifi Access Points|Ajay Garg|Landed
Connection Indication|Simon Schampijer|Idea stage
Content support|Daniel Drake|Landed
Cordova Container for Sugar|Lionel Laské & Puneet Kaur|Landed
Develop Web|Kartik K Perisetla|Idea stage
Discovery mode|John Tierney|Idea stage
Display Device|Martin Abente|Landed
Display section for control panel|Walter Bender|Idea stage
Dotted Activity Versions|Simon Schampijer|Landed
Edit panel on Frame|Walter Bender|Idea stage
Enhanced Gettext|Sayamindu Dasgupta|Landed
Enhanced color selector|Walter Bender|Landed
Evince Introspection Bindings|Gonzalo Odiard|Landed
Fast Language Switch|Aleksey Lim|Idea stage
Fixing Collab (Tubes)|Sam Parkinson|Landed
Flash Activities|Tomeu Vizoso|Landed
Font configuration|Daniel Drake|Unknown
Frame Panels|Aleksey Lim|Unknown
FreeDesktop integration|Sebastian Silva|In progress
GObject Introspection|Tomeu Vizoso|Landed
GTK3|Tomeu|Landed
Global Text To Speech|Gonzalo Odiard|Landed
Host Version|Christoph Derndorfer|Idea stage
Icon Change|Ignacio Rodríguez|Landed*
Improved Accessibility|Tomeu Vizoso|Landed
Inquiry learning global chat|John Tierney|Idea stage
Introduction Tutorial|Erick Lavoie|Landed*
Join Limits|Walter Bender|Landed
Journal Entry Sharing|Simon Schampijer|Landed
Journal Sort|Andrés Ambrois|Landed
Journal Volume Toolbar enhancement|Walter Bender|Idea stage
Journal data tagged private or public|Walter Bender, Gonzalo Odiard|Idea stage
Keyboard CP Section|Sayamindu Dasgupta|Landed
Language keyboard options|Walter Bender|Idea stage
Launch Limits|Walter Bender|Landed
Lease Information Display|Anish Mangal|Unknown
License selection in Journal|Anish Mangal|Unknown
Messages Notification|Martin Abente|Landed
Metacity|Tomeu Vizoso|Landed
Multi XS-server registration|Manash Pratim Das|In progress
Multi selection|Ajay Garg|Landed
Multiple home views|Walter Bender|Landed
Neighborhood List View|Tomeu Vizoso|Idea stage
Network control panel|Frederick Grose|Landed
New ASLO|Sam Parkinson|In progress
New Toolbar Design|Aleksey Lim|Landed
Notification Progress Bar|Sam Parkinson|In progress
Notification Replacement|Sam Parkinson|In progress
Notification System|Sam Parkinson|In progress
Notification Urgency|Sam Parkinson|In progress
Object Bundles|Aleksey Lim|Unknown
Object Collections|Aleksey Lim|Unknown
Onscreen Keyboard| Sayamindu|Landed
Optimize TreeViews|Manuel Quiñones and Gonzalo Odiard|Landed
Optional activity updates|Martin Abente Lahaye|Landed
Optional adhoc autoconnect|Martin Abente Lahaye|Landed
Parental controls|Tony Forster|Idea stage
Patch workflow|ALeksey Lim|Obsolete
Peer to Peer Objects Sharing|Aleksey Lim|Landed
Plain Query Format|Aleksey Lim|Idea stage
Print Support|Daniel Castelo|Unknown
Problem Reports|Wade Brainerd|Landed*
Proxy Settings|Sascha Silbe|Landed
Publish Sugar Version|Gonzalo Odiard|Landed
Remove Presence Service|Tomeu Vizoso|Landed
Replace GtkMenu|Sam Parkinson|In progress
Replace combo box in journal search|Walter Bender|Landed
Replace combo box in language panel|Walter Bender|Landed
Resource monitoring|Fred Grose|Unknown
Revised Browse default-bookmarks.html|Mel Chua|Landed
Semantic Web|Christophe Gueret|In progress
Server Objects Sharing|Aleksey Lim|Idea stage
Show Thumb Drives As Hierarchical|James Simmons|Idea stage
Signed Bundles|Wade|Idea stage
SimpleActivity|Agustin Zubiaga|Landed
Simple Messages Notification| Martin Abente|Landed
Smart Objects|Aleksey Lim|Idea stage
SoaS Creation Station|Thomas Gilliard|In progress
SoaS Remixability|Thomas Gilliard|In progress
SoaS customization|Thomas Gilliard|In progress
Social Help|Sam Parkinson|Landed
Spent Times|Martin Abente Lahaye|Landed
Spiral Home View|Walter Bender|Landed
Start activity from another activity|Manuel Quiñones|Landed
Statistics gathering|Sebastian Silva|Idea stage
Sugar3 Docs|Sam Parkinson|In progress
Sugar Activity Library on a Stick|Tom Gilliard|Landed
Sugar Adhoc Networks|Simon Schampijer|Landed
Sugar Bundles|Aleksey Lim|Idea stage
Sugar Creation Kit DVD|Thomas Gilliard|Landed
Sugar Update Control ASLO|David Farning|Landed
Sync datastore object changes|Simon Schampijer|Unknown
TableView Widget|Aleksey Lim|Obsolete
Tabs In Browse|Tomeu Vizoso|Landed
Tags in Journal|Aleksey Lim|Landed
Teacher Buddy|Walter Bender|In progress
Terminal Sharing|Ben Schwartz|Landed
Text To Speech In The Toolkit|Gonzalo Odiard|Landed
Thumbs View in Journal|Aleksey Lim|Landed
Tick based animation|Sam Parkinson|In progress
Toolbar utils|Walter Bender|In progress
Touch|Simon Schampijer|Landed
Touchpad control panel section|Walter Bender|Landed
Transfer to many|Simon Schampijer|Landed
Trigger Bundle Add|Martin Abente Lahaye|Landed
Unified Browser for Objects|Aleksey Lim|Idea stage
Update Favorites|Walter Bender|Landed
WPA-WPA2-Enterprise-Network-Connections|Sascha Silbe|Landed
WebKit|Daniel Drake|Landed
Web services|Walter Bender|Landed
Write to journal anytime|Walter Bender|Landed } * Landed as Sugar Activity See also For a more organized view of the features, see Category:Feature More information: Request New Features | Wish list | Category:Idea | Category:FeatureLanded Subpages Features currently under consideration are described on individual subpages, linked below. 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