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=== Activity Toolbar redesign ===
=== Activity Toolbar redesign ===
The activity toolbar has been redesigned, since the design of using tabs to group options, an activity can have, did not turn out to work so well. More details about the [[Features/New Toolbar Design]]. The redesign gives a solution for the "stop activity issue" pointed out in {{Bug|452}}. Browse and Write have been ported to use the new Toolbar design.
The activity toolbar has been redesigned. The previous design using small text tabs to group toolbar options together caused a number of reported difficulties. More details about the [[Features/New Toolbar Design]]. The redesign provides a solution for the " how do I stop an activity" issue, pointed out in {{Bug|452}}. Browse, Write, Calculate, Terminal, Read, ImageViewer have already been ported to use the new Toolbar design, and many other are underway.
[[Image:Write-toolbar.png]]
[[Image:Write-toolbar.png]]
[[Image:Browse-toolbar.png]]
[[Image:Browse-toolbar.png]]
=== Switch to Metacity window manager ===
Sugar [[Features/Metacity | switches]] the window manager from Matchbox to Metacity. Matchbox was designed for small devices that run all applications maximized. Sugar can run in devices with bigger screens and some more complicated applications break when run in Matchbox. Using Metacity instead means that some unsugarized apps will run better inside Sugar.
=== Flash Activities ===
[http://www.gnashdev.org/ Gnash] has been added to the Sugar Platform, meaning that authors of education content can use [[Features/Flash_Activities | Flash tools to create first class activities]] for Sugar.
=== Tabs in Browse ===
Links that would open in a new window now open in new tabs inside the main activity window, similar to the behavior in other browsers. Though this [[Features/Tabs_In_Browse | feature]] doesn't yet allow the user to explicitly open any link in a new tab, or explicitly create a new tab, it does provide a better experience when using some websites that open multiple windows.
[[Image:Browse-tabs.png]]
=== Ad hoc Networking ===
The new ad-hoc networking facilities allows users to connect with each other over wireless in an ad-hoc manner without wireless infrastructure like access point. This is the so called "under a tree scenario". OLPC provided for similar functionality with XO hardware based on a mesh network. [[Features/Ad_hoc_Networking | Ad-hoc networking]] allows Sugar to use this with most wireless hardware. Furthermore it allows you to share an internet connection using the same mechanism.
== What is new for developers ==
== What is new for developers ==