Sucrose 0.83.4 Release Notes

Announcement

Since, this date is Feature, API, String freeze everyone was busy getting their features in.

From a user point of view we want to highlight on the following:

Naming alert on journal entry creation

The journal's search and browsing capabilities are less useful if all entries are named the same regardless of their actual content or meaning to the user. That is why an alert has been added that encourage the user to set the title and other properties, like available in the journal detail view, of a newly created journal entry. This alert is only shown on the creation of a new journal entry, not on resume.

Make the journal entries in the favourites palette resumable

The favourites view in the home view displays the last entries for each activity and allows easy resuming. You can decide if this is the default behaviour in the favourites view palette at the top right.

Journal

Tomeu has been doing a wonderful work of bringing the journal implementation closer to it's design.The Object chooser can now be filtered by data type. A favourite filter has been added to the journal toolbar to give a better way of marking entries as 'important'. More regression fixes went into the support of removable devices after moving from maintaining an index file on the device to the use of POSIX calls.

New ColorToolButton Widget

Benzea added a new ColorToolButton widget. It is already in use in the Write activity to select a colour for the text.

Control Panel

The 'About my XO' section has been renamed to 'About my Computer' to reflect the use of Sugar on non-XO hardware. Morgan added the possibility to change the jabber server without restarting Sugar.

Autoconnect to Access Point

NetworkManager does autoconnect on Sugar startup to the last Access Point you were connected successfully to.

Logout Option

Sayamindu added a logout option to the xomenu.

New Logic for the devices positions

[500 external devices eg. USB drive]
[400 3rd party devices eg. speech]
[300 transient connection devices eg. AP]
[200 transient devices eg. camera]
[100 static devices eg. battery]

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

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

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

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