0.84/0.84.0 Notes

Sucrose 0.84.0 Release Notes

Announcement

This is the Final Release in our 0.84 development cycle! Thanks to our testers the developers were able to bring in bug fixes to stabilize the platform. And the translators were busy to get all the strings translated. All the details what have changed from a user point of view will be handled in the detailed 0.84 release notes.

Thanks everyone for your great contributions!

Compatibility

When you upgrade a computer that was running previously Sucrose 0.82,

• 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 0.84.x to an earlier version,

• The datastore is incompatible, so all data in the journal won't be accessible (but will be still there)
• You will be prompted to enter a new name and color like it would happen on first boot

Most of the activities in Sucrose 0.84.x should be compatible with Sucrose 0.82. An exception is Browse, which depends on new versions of Hulahop, Read which depend on the latest version of Evince and Write which depends on the latest version of libabiword.

Glucose modules

• sugar-toolkit 0.84.0
• sugar 0.84.0
• sugar-artwork 0.84.0
• sugar-base 0.84.0
• sugar-datastore 0.84.0
• sugar-presence-service 0.84.0
• etoys 4.0.2206

Glucose news

sugar

• Focus rectangle corners should be rounded #406
• Restore minimal .xol support #459
• Check the activity version and replace an older version upon download #464
• Friendstray: icon reacting to right click #441
• Network device icons don't react on right click #463
• Don't open a launcher window when that activity is already running #426
• Fall back to application-octet-stream for unknown types #458
• Show a generic icon for clippings, if available #454
• Don’t add_bundle on activity dir change when installed already #442
• Make mute sound code togglable
• Keyhandler: Map XF86Search to the journal search
• Keyhandler: Catch all exceptions (thanks to Sascha Silbe)
• Give time for exit to execute when closing the emulator #435
• Dont hardcode the maximum amount of entries to cache in the journal #72
• Add standard ‘Print’ shortcut to take a screenshot
• Use keyboard specific keys to set the volume #430
• Update to new DBus policy #307
• Fix palette appearance on right-click #403
• Switch to existing instance of an activity if it’s already running #410

sugar-toolkit

• Catch all exceptions while saving #224
• Listen for map in Window instead of in Canvas (alsroot) #428
• Restore minimal .xol support #459
• Use the same font size independent from scaling
• Don't recursively clean an activity if it's a symbolic link #444
• Add extension to temp icon file names #458
• Process .py files in subdirectories './setup genplot' (alsroot) #391
• Improve error handling of calls to XGrabKey #431
• Cleanup temp files at exit #435
• Let activities provide their own implementation of get_preview() #152
• Show/Hide the color palette correctly #374
• Support setting None as the secondary text #384
• Only display one line in the secondary text of a clipping palette #384
• Switch to existing instance of an activity if it’s already running #410
• Reveal the palette on right click on an activity icon #409

sugar-base

• 2*42=84

sugar-presence-service

• 0.84.0 Final release
• No changes since 0.83.3

sugar-datastore

• Nice, cool-looking 0.84.0 version number ;)

sugar-artwork

• This component release is part of the effort: "Make Sugar 0.84 appear up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/84_(number)#In_other_fields"

etoys

• updated translations de, el, fr, sv, tr, vi
• fixed 'bearing to' and 'distance to' tiles

Fructose modules

• read 65
• chat 64
• terminal 23
• imageviewer 6
• jukebox 7
• turtleart 41
• browse 105
• etoys 100
• write 63
• calculate 28
• log 17
• pippy 25

Fructose news

terminal

• Change default font size to 10 from 8
• New translations

read

• Sucrose 0.84.0 release
• Translation updates: pt, de, sv, ne

browse

• new translations

chat

• Sucrose 0.84.0 Release
• Translation updates: pt, ne

write

• Update to API change, render_page_to_image starts now with 1 #152
• Override get_preview #152
• Deprecation fix: Use bundle_id instead od service_name
• Updated translations

imageviewer

• Remove hacks needed because of d.sl.o (Tomeu) #258
• New languages and translations

jukebox

• share/keep button hidden
• new translations added

turtleart

• updated de, it and sv artwork

Fructose dependencies

• hulahop 0.4.9