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= Sucrose 0.86 Release Notes =

= Sucrose 0.86 Release Notes =

The toolbar used in the Activities has been redesigned. The previous design using small text tabs to group toolbar options together caused a number of usability difficulties. Many of these issues have been addressed in the redesign. For example, the redesign provides a solution for the "how do I stop an activity" issue, pointed out in {{Bug|452}} (the older toolbar design did not provide an always visible "Stop" button, causing confusion for our young learners). Among the Activities, Browse, Write, Calculate, Terminal, Read, ImageViewer, and Turtle Art have already been ported to use the new Toolbar design, while work on many others is under way. See [[Features/New Toolbar Design]] for more details about the new design.

The toolbar used in the Activities has been redesigned. The previous design using small text tabs to group toolbar options together caused a number of usability difficulties. Many of these issues have been addressed in the redesign. For example, the redesign provides a solution for the "how do I stop an activity" issue, pointed out in {{Bug|452}} (the older toolbar design did not provide an always visible "Stop" button, causing confusion for our young learners). Among the Activities, Browse, Write, Calculate, Terminal, Read, ImageViewer, and Turtle Art have already been ported to use the new Toolbar design, while work on many others is under way. See [[Features/New Toolbar Design]] for more details about the new design.

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[[Image:0.86_Browse_new_toolbar.png|thumb|none|800px|The new '''Browse''' toolbar design.‎ There is an activity toolbar containing the title entry, the share and the keep button.]]

[[Image:0.86_Browse_new_toolbar.png|thumb|none|800px|The new '''Browse''' toolbar design.‎ There is an activity toolbar containing the title entry, the share and the keep button.]] [[Image:Old-browse-toolbar.png|thumb|200px|The old Browse toolbar, for comparison]]

[[Image:write_0.86_toolbars.png‎|thumb|none|800px|The new '''Write''' toolbar design.‎]]

[[Image:write_0.86_toolbars.png‎|thumb|none|800px|The new '''Write''' toolbar design.‎]] [[Image:Old-Write-toolbar.png|thumb|200px|The old Write toolbar, for comparison]]

=== Switch to Metacity window manager ===

=== Switch to Metacity window manager ===

=== Ad hoc Networking ===

=== Ad hoc Networking ===

New ad-hoc networking facilities allows you to connect with other Sugar users over wireless in an ad-hoc manner without relying on any wireless networking infrastructure. This is the so called "under-a-tree scenario", where children can work, play, and learn collaboratively in any place imaginable, without requiring any wireless access point, which for many children is unavailable or only available at school. (The One Laptop per Child XO-1 computer provides similar functionality with its firmware-based 802.11s (mesh) network.)[[Features/Ad_hoc_Networking | Ad-hoc networking]] allows Sugar to use this feature with most of the wireless hardware commonly found on computers. Furthermore it allows one to share an Internet connection using the same mechanism. Fore more details see [[Features/Ad_hoc_Networking/Testing|Ad-hoc network testing]].

New ad-hoc networking facilities allows you to connect with other Sugar users over wireless in an ad-hoc manner without relying on any wireless networking infrastructure. This is the so called "under-a-tree scenario", where children can work, play, and learn collaboratively in any place imaginable, without requiring any wireless access point, which for many children is unavailable or only available at school. (The One Laptop per Child XO-1 computer provides similar functionality with its firmware-based 802.11s (mesh) network.)[[Features/Ad_hoc_Networking | Ad-hoc networking]] allows Sugar to use this feature with most of the wireless hardware commonly found on computers. Furthermore it allows one to share an Internet connection using the same mechanism. For more details see [[Features/Ad_hoc_Networking/Testing|Ad-hoc network testing]].

[[Image:ad-hoc_0.86_feature.png|thumb|none|400px|Using an ad-hoc local network in Sugar.]]

[[Image:ad-hoc_0.86_feature.png|thumb|none|400px|Using an ad-hoc local network in Sugar.]]

== Looking at the release cycle details ==

== Looking at the release cycle details ==

You can browse the notes of each development release in [[{{Upcoming Stable Release}}]]. Their respective sources are listed there as well.

You can browse the notes of each development release in [[0.86]]. Their respective sources are listed there as well.

== Looking Forward to 0.88 ==

== Looking Forward to 0.88 ==