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

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

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.

• Features/3G Support
• Features/3G Support/Database Support
• Features/3G Support/Share
• Features/3G Support/Testing
• Features/About
• Features/About Me
• Features/Accessibility control panel
• Features/Accessibility virtual keyboard
• Features/Activity.info
• Features/Activity Help
• Features/Activity Objects
• Features/Activity as a regular Journal Object
• Features/Activity specific metadata in Journal
• Features/Ad hoc Networking
• Features/Ad hoc Networking/Testing
• Features/Add Information In About Computer
• Features/Automatic Proxy Settings
• Features/Automatic activity updates
• Features/Avoid surplus Activity launching
• Features/Background image on home view
• Features/Backup and Restore
• Features/Backup and Restore/Enhancements
• Features/Browse JS Fiddler
• Features/Buddy Positioning
• Features/Bug Report
• Features/Bulletin Board
• Features/Can share
• Features/Change home view name
• Features/Classroom management
• Features/Clipboard Item Transfer
• Features/Clock in Frame
• Features/Comment box in journal detail view
• Features/Configuring Hidden Wifi Access Points
• Features/Connection Indication
• Features/Content support
• Features/Cordova Container for Sugar
• Features/Dashboard
• Features/Develop Web
• Features/Discovery mode
• Features/Display Device
• Features/Display section for control panel
• Features/Dotted Activity Versions
• Features/Edit panel on Frame
• Features/Enhanced Gettext
• Features/Enhanced Gettext/Testing
• Features/Enhanced color selector
• Features/Enhanced color selector/Patch-colorpicker
• Features/Enhanced color selector/Patch-view
• Features/Enhanced color selector/Patch-window
• Features/Enhanced color selector/Patch-xocolor
• Features/Enhanced color selector/Testing
• Features/Enhanced color selector/atch-edit-undo
• Features/Evince Introspection Bindings
• Features/Fast Language Switch
• Features/Feature Template
• Features/Feature Template/Testing
• Features/Fixing Collab (Tubes)
• Features/Flash Activities
• Features/Flash Activities/Testing
• Features/Font configuration
• Features/Frame Panels
• Features/FreeDesktop integration
• Features/GObject Introspection
• Features/GTK3
• Features/GTK3/API wish list
• Features/GTK3/Desktop Summit activities
• Features/GTK3/Development
• Features/GTK3/Porting
• Features/GTK3/Porting/Finance
• Features/GTK3/Porting/GetBooks
• Features/GTK3/Porting/Implode
• Features/GTK3/Porting/InfoSlicer
• Features/GTK3/Porting/Jukebox
• Features/GTK3/Porting/Log
• Features/GTK3/Porting/Record
• Features/GTK3/Porting/TamTam
• Features/GTK3/Porting/Typing Turtle
• Features/GTK3/Shell
• Features/GTK3/Shell/GTK3 Port
• Features/GTK3/Shell/Hippo Removal
• Features/GTK3/Shell/Hippo Removal/Testing on the XO
• Features/GTK3/Theme
• Features/Global Text To Speech
• Features/Host Version
• Features/Icon Change
• Features/Improved Accessibility
• Features/Improved Accessibility/Testing
• Features/Inquiry learning global chat
• Features/Introduction Tutorial
• Features/Introduction Tutorial/Overlay
• Features/JS Fiddler
• Features/Join Limits
• Features/Journal Entry Sharing
• Features/Journal Entry Sharing/Testing
• Features/Journal Plugins
• Features/Journal Sort
• Features/Journal Volume Toolbar enhancement
• Features/Journal data tagged private or public
• Features/Journal features for 0.96
• Features/Journal features for 0.96/Education Team Talks
• Features/Keyboard CP Section
• Features/Keyboard CP Section/Testing
• Features/Language keyboard options
• Features/Launch Limits
• Features/Lease Information Display
• Features/License selection in Journal
• Features/Messages Notification
• Features/Metacity
• Features/Metacity/Testing
• Features/Multi XS-server registration
• Features/Multi selection
• Features/Multi selection screenshots
• Features/Multiple home views
• Features/Multiple home views/Testing
• Features/Multiple schoolserver registration
• Features/Neighborhood List View
• Features/Network control panel
• Features/Network control panel/Testing
• Features/Network status
• Features/New ASLO
• Features/New ASLO/Testing
• Features/New Toolbar Design
• Features/New Toolbar Design/Testing
• Features/Notification Progress Bar
• Features/Notification Replacement
• Features/Notification System
• Features/Notification Urgency
• Features/Object Bundles
• Features/Object Collections
• Features/Obsolete/Ad hoc Networking
• Features/Obsolete/Ad hoc Networking/Testing
• Features/Onscreen Keyboard
• Features/Optimize TreeViews
• Features/Optional activity updates
• Features/Optional adhoc autoconnect
• Features/Parental controls
• Features/Patch workflow
• Features/Peer to Peer Objects Sharing
• Features/Plain Query Format
• Features/Policy
• Features/Print Support
• Features/Problem Reports
• Features/Problem Reports/Testing
• Features/Proxy Settings
• Features/Publish Sugar Version
• Features/Python3
• Features/Remove Presence Service
• Features/Remove Presence Service/Testing
• Features/Replace GtkMenu
• Features/Replace combo box in journal search
• Features/Replace combo box in language panel
• Features/Resource monitoring
• Features/Revised Browse default-bookmarks.html
• Features/Revised Browse default-bookmarks.html/Testing
• Features/Save-As
• Features/Semantic Web
• Features/Semantic Web/Testing
• Features/Server Objects Sharing
• Features/Sharing Journal Entries Via School Server
• Features/Shell UI Integration
• Features/Show Thumb Drives As Hierarchical
• Features/Signed Bundles
• Features/SimpleActivity
• Features/Simple Messages Notification
• Features/Smart Objects
• Features/Smart Objects/Shared Actions
• Features/SoaS Creation Station
• Features/SoaS Remixability
• Features/SoaS Remixability/Testing
• Features/SoaS customization
• Features/SoaS next
• Features/SoaS v7
• Features/Soas V5/
• Features/Social Help
• Features/Spent Times
• Features/Spiral Home View
• Features/Spiral Home View/Testing
• Features/Start activity from another activity
• Features/Statistics gathering
• Features/Sugar3Docs/HowToWrite
• Features/Sugar3 Docs
• Features/Sugar3 Docs/How To Write
• Features/Sugar 0.90
• Features/Sugar Activity Library on a Stick
• Features/Sugar Activity Library on a Stick/Testing
• Features/Sugar Adhoc Networks
• Features/Sugar Adhoc Networks/Testing
• Features/Sugar Bundles
• Features/Sugar Creation Kit DVD
• Features/Sugar Screenshot Dialog Popup
• Features/Sugar Update Control ASLO
• Features/Sugar Update Control ASLO/Testing
• Features/Sync datastore object changes
• Features/TableView Widget
• Features/TableView Widget/Testing
• Features/Tabs In Browse
• Features/Tabs In Browse/Testing
• Features/Tags in Journal
• Features/Teacher Buddy
• Features/Terminal Sharing
• Features/Text To Speech In The Toolkit
• Features/Thumbs View in Journal
• Features/Tick based animation
• Features/Toolbar utils
• Features/Touch
• Features/Touch/Development
• Features/Touch/Programming Tips
• Features/Touch/Testing
• Features/Touch/Testing os11
• Features/Touch/Testing os6
• Features/Touch/Testing os8
• Features/Touchpad control panel section
• Features/Touchpad control panel section/Testing
• Features/Transfer to many
• Features/Transfer to many options
• Features/Transfer to many screenshots
• Features/Trigger Bundle Add
• Features/Unified Browser for Objects
• Features/Update Favorites
• Features/Variable-Appearance-of-Buddy-Icon
• Features/WPA-WPA2-Enterprise-Network-Connections
• Features/WPA-WPA2-Enterprise-Network-Connections/Testing
• Features/WebKit
• Features/WebKit/Development
• Features/Web services
• Features/Web services/Testing
• Features/Write to journal anytime
• Features/Write to journal anytime/Testing
• Features/Zero Sugar Activities