Sucrose 0.81.2

Announcement

This release has many great improvements. Pippy and the Log activity fixed the platform specific issues and could be added to the release. Refinements has been made to the activity list view like adding installation dates of the activities, sorting by dates and searching in the list of activities.

The control panel has been refactored and has now a graphical interface as well as the command line one. Refactoring work has been done as well in the bundlebuilder and a speaker device has been added to the frame so you can control the volume of your speakers from there. In Etoys new phrases have been marked for translation to improve internationalization even more.

Make sure to check out the new palette features for links in the web-activity and try to quit the terminal activity by quitting the shell. As another little smoke test you could use the control panel to change your buddy to use a light fill color and check that the chat activity uses black text for your messages then.

Finally, if the frame pops up unintentionally during these actions you can find now a slider to set different activation delays for the frame in the control panel.

Glucose modules

Glucose news

sugar-base

Fix logging (Tomeu)

sugar-toolkit

Add an installation time property to the activity bundle (Tomeu)
Reveal palettes on right-click (Eben)
Refactor bundlebuilder and add dist_source command (Marco)
Enable journal to do open-with for activity bundles (Chema)
Add timezone, hot_corners, warm_edges to the profile (Simon)

sugar

Search in the activity list (Tomeu)
Add installation date in the activity list (Tomeu)
Improve performance of the activity list (Tomeu)
Sort activities in the list and ring by installation date (Tomeu)
Speaker device (Martin Dengler)
Graphical frontend for the control panel (Simon)
Rotate the dpad keys when the screen rotate button is pressed (Erik Garrison)

sugar-artwork

Skipped this release

sugar-datastore

Skipped this release

sugar-presence-service

Skipped this release

etoys

more translatable phrases
minor tile fixes

journal-activity

Arabic translations update (Khaled)
Italian translations update (Carlo)
Misc small fixes (Simon and Tomeu)

Fructose modules

Fructose news

read-activity

Skipped this release

chat-activity

#5767: Use black text on light fill colors (matthias)

terminal-activity

#5520: Make the activity exit when the user exits the shell. (sayamindu)

web-activity

89

Make the object chooser transient on the activity window. (tomeu)

88

Add Edit toolbar (tomeu)
Add Follow link item to link palette (tomeu)
Add palette for images (tomeu)
Add a simple palette for links with an option to copy to the clipboard (tomeu)

calculate-activity

Skipped this release

write-activity

Skipped this release

log-activity

make users non-olpc be able to read the sugar logs - this is important for the activity running on non xo platforms

pippy activity

Add check to not fail on new gtksourceview2 API - this is needed for the activity to run on non xo platforms

Instructions to test in joyride

Update to joyride 2024. You can then get the Sucrose 0.81.2 activities with the script (based on bert's activity update script). As user olpc do:

wget http://dev.laptop.org/~erikos/sucrose-activities.py

Then run:

python sucrose-activities.py

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