0.102/Notes

Sucrose 0.101.4 Release Notes

Introduction

Sugar 0.101.4 (unstable) is the feature-freeze version of the Sugar learning platform on the road towards the 0.102 release. It was released 8 March 2014.

The main changes in this cycle are primarily bug fixes and enhancements to existing features.

Sugar Commits since 0.100

Author	Commit
Gonzalo Odiard	Show a error message if the activity updater can't connect to the server …
Gonzalo Odiard	Microformat updater: fix parser …
manuq	Merge branch 'rcunning01-master'
rcunning01	Set GNU GPL in monospace font …
Ignacio Rodríguez	Use hardcode names and colors.
Gonzalo Odiard	Microformat updater: set cache header …
Ignacio Rodríguez	Unit test for profile, age, gender, color and nick.
Daniel Narvaez	Pyflakes fixes
Frederick Grose	Rework wireless control panel section to respect non-wireless connect… …
Daniel Narvaez	Fix pep8 errors
Prasoon Shukla	Fixed ticket 4694. …
edudev	A small bug fix, due to the GSettings port and homeview key merging
Gonzalo Odiard	Inhibit suspend while doing text to speech …
Gonzalo Odiard	Display keyboard shortcuts in palettes - Fixes #4716 …
Gonzalo Odiard	CurrentActivityIcon need check if _home_activity is None - Fixes #4725 …
Ignacio Rodríguez	Use set_color_xo instead set_color …
manuq	Expose variables used by inner functions
Daniel Narvaez	Revert "Remove unused variable from journal misc.py" …
Daniel Narvaez	Remove unused variable from journal misc.py
Walter Bender	add missing file: agepicker.py
Daniel Narvaez	Add keybinding to dump the ui tree
Walter Bender	Add age and gender to user profile …
manuq	Icon API change: use pixel_size …
Gonzalo Odiard	Fix error while trying to open journal palette. Fixes #4637 …
Martin Abente Lahaye	Fix missing options in batch copy palette …
Gonzalo Odiard	Add viewhelp.py to POTFILES.in
Gonzalo Odiard	Implement Activity Help feature …
edudev	Asynchronous file copying
Daniel Narvaez	Add the gsettings schemas for translation
edudev	GConf to GSetitngs port, tier 2 …
Gonzalo Odiard	Fix method name in journal multiple objects operation …
manuq	Remove monochrome from battery icon while charging …
Walter Bender	Fix typo in GConf code …
Ignacio Rodríguez	Port AboutMe section to Grid
edudev	Use .splice_async() in filetransfer.py …
edudev	GConf backward compatibility …
edudev	Change paths to non deprecated scheme
edudev	GConf to GSettings port
Daniel Narvaez	Remove trailing space
Sam	Fixed an issue with the show_launcher option having no effect
Gonzalo Odiard	CP background section need set the cursor at exit - SL #4667 …
Gonzalo Odiard	Fix control panel search focus issue - SL #3188 …
Gonzalo Odiard	Fix "Show feedback in detailview when sugar can't manage a entry" …
Gonzalo Odiard	Fix "Restart button in detailview does not works if palette is opened… …
Gonzalo Odiard	Fix Clone of gtk3 activities - SL #4608 …
Gonzalo Odiard	Consolidate the control of what can be resumed in the journal …
Gonzalo Odiard	Show feedback in detailview when sugar can't manage a entry - SL #328 …
Gonzalo Odiard	Fix regression introduced by ae54fc4 …
ChristoferR	Unnecessary checkout for getting file size, Fixes: #2303 …
Walter Bender	add jarabe/view/alerts …
Walter Bender	Set limit to open activities and open instances …
Daniel Narvaez	Revert "Shows path instead of activity name in Title bar. Fixes #3073" …
Daniel Narvaez	Add padding to the journal button palette …
cheekujodhpur	Shows path instead of activity name in Title bar. Fixes #3073
Daniel Narvaez	Revert "Removes pulsing from start-up icon. Fixes #3092" …
Jerry Vonau	Remove OLPC specific code from sugar-control-panel …
Gonzalo Odiard	Do not update the journal when in the detail view - SL #4658 …
Gonzalo Odiard	Reorganize the code to avoid duplications … Gonzalo Odiard About computer: show when was the last update on system packages …
Gonzalo Odiard	About this computer: Display secondary licenses if needed …
Gonzalo Odiard	Display the model in the control panel About this computer section …
Gonzalo Odiard	Add a gconf option to show/hide the Register option - SL #4640 …
Daniel Narvaez	Improve shutdown/restart/logout configurability …
Daniel Narvaez	Trivial string change …
Gonzalo Odiard	Avoid popup the palette while a dragging in the Journal - SL #3999 …
Walter Bender	The set hidden attribute ioctl doesn't work for …
Gonzalo Odiard	Add 5 GHz frequency channels table - SL #4459 …
Gonzalo Odiard	Update version of Sugar to 0.100 …
Walter Bender	Fix to fix of SL #4650 … Walter Bender
Gonzalo Odiard	Avoid switch to the Journal or change views when a modal window is op… …

How to contribute with testing

Testing and reporting issues is a big help for the developing team.

Instructions are here 0.100/Testing

Credits

Many people contributed to this release indirectly, including testing, documentation, translation, contributing to the Wiki, outreach to education and developer communities. On behalf of the community, we give our warmest thanks to the developers and contributors who made this Sugar release possible.

We want to especially thank:

• the Infrastructure team which does all this great work in the background without which the development would not be possible at all,

• the deployments that provide the development team with feedback from the field,

• the Design team which guided the design of features with UI changes or impact on the workflow,

• the Translation team which makes sure that Sugar is enjoyable in the local languages of our users,

• the developers that submit patches for new features and bug fixes and do review other's patches,

• the maintainers that make sure their code is shippable and which provide packagers with new tarballs,

• the packagers which provide distributions with new Sugar packages,

• the SoaS team for providing a Sugar version to test with during the development cycle,

• the testers for finding the small and bigger issues,

• the release team and Development team for coordinating those efforts.

Daniel Narvaez took the responsibility of manage the release.