Wow!! -walter
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Simon Schampijer <si...@schampijer.de> wrote: > Dear Sugar Community, > > Since, this date is Feature, API and String freeze everyone was busy > getting their features in. > > From a user point of view we want to highlight the following: > > === Naming alert on journal entry creation === > The journal's search and browsing capabilities are less useful if all > entries are named the same regardless of their actual content or > meaning to the user. That is why an alert has been added that encourage > the user to set the title and other properties, like available in the > journal detail view, of a newly created journal entry. This alert is > only shown on the creation of a new journal entry, not on resume. > > === Display recent activities in the home view === > In order to make easier to continue past work, the home view will > display recent entries in the activity palettes. > > You can decide if you want the activity icons to represent the last > journal entry with a new setting in the favourites view palette: > > === Journal === > Tomeu Vizoso has been doing a wonderful work of bringing the journal > implementation closer to it's design.The Object chooser can now be > filtered by data type. > > A favourite filter has been added to the journal toolbar to give a > better way of marking entries as 'important'. More regression fixes went > into the support of removable devices after moving from maintaining an > index file on the device to the use of POSIX calls. > > === New ColorToolButton Widget === > Benjamin Berg added a new ColorToolButton widget. It is already in use > in the Write activity to select a colour for the text. > > === Control Panel=== > The 'About my XO' section has been renamed to 'About my Computer' to > reflect the use of Sugar on non-XO hardware. Morgan Collett added the > possibility to change the jabber server without restarting Sugar. > > === Autoconnect to Access Point === > NetworkManager does autoconnect on Sugar startup to the last Access > Point you were connected successfully to. > > === Logout Option === > Sayamindu Dasgupta added a logout option to the xomenu. Eben Eliason > added the accessibility of the xomenu to the groups and mesh view and to > the friends tray in the frame. > > === New Logic for the devices positions === > The logic to position the frame devices has been reworked. Plug in your > devices and try it out. > [500 external devices eg. USB drive] > [400 3rd party devices eg. speech] > [300 transient connection devices eg. AP] > [200 transient devices eg. camera] > [100 static devices eg. battery] > > === Table of Content Support in Read === > The Read activity now shows the Table of Content for PDF files which > support this feature. This eases navigation of large PDF files considerably. > > === Acknowledgment === > A big thanks goes to all the translators, that are working so hard to > make Sugar a terrific localized environment and the infrastructure team > that provides our members with tools and services to make their live easier. > > > Thanks everyone for your great contributions! > > You can find more details and screenshots at > [1] http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.83.4 > > The Sucrose Release Schedule can be found here > [2] http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap#Schedule > > > In behalf of the sugar community, > Your Release Team > > _____________________________________________________ > > == Glucose news == > > === sugar-toolkit === > * separate debug settings from xsession {{Bug|163}} > * show an alert on activity close for suggesting the user to set > properties of the entry {{Bug|215}} > * add a colorpicker to Sugar, only the ColorToolButton is public for now > * move the palette to new style gobject properties > * {{OlpcBug|3060}} Add the possibility of filtering the object chooser > by data type > * fix uninstallling of activities that use symlinks {{Bug|171}} > * remove the hacks for asking the X server for screenshots and use > gtk.Widget.get_snapshot() instead > > === sugar === > * make the journal entries in the favorites palette resumable > * simplify the constants used to identify favorite layouts > * separate debug settings from xsession {{Bug|163}} > * add logout option {{Bug|207}} to xomenu (sayamindu, icon by eben) > * change jabber server without sugar restart {{Bug|142}} > * About my XO -> About my Computer > * {{Bug|196}} Fix setting the timezone in debian > * autoconnect to AP that we connected to last {{Bug|8}} > * add a favorites mode setting for deciding if the favorites view > resumes by default or not > * resume by default the last activity from the favorites view > * implement filtering by file type for removable devices > * {{Bug|132}} Filter by timestamp, not by mtime > * add support for text queries on removable devices > * dont abort if we cannot read a file from a removable device > * add a favorite filter to the journal toolbar > * sanitize the file name when we copy to removable devices > * {{Bug|36}} Refresh the detailed view when the entry changes > * {{Bug|38}} Refresh full metadata when editing so we dont lose properties > * Focus Search is not exposed via dbus anymore {{Bug|89}} > * {{Bug|131}} 'open with' does not work for clipboard item > * {{Bug|165}} Install bundles when they get into the journal > * add Resume item to the file transfer palette > * {{Bug|126}} Fix erase button in the journal > * following eben's spec for the device positions > > === sugar-base === > * Don't print logs to tty instead of shell.log in the emulator > * Trivial port to GIO instead of GnomeVFS > > === sugar-presence-service === > * {{Bug|142}} Restart a server-based collaboration session / switch > servers on the fly > > === sugar-datastore === > * {{Bug|181}} Replace deprecated os.popen by subprocess > * {{Bug|140}} Crash when joining a shared Read > > === sugar-artwork === > * add activity-journal icon to artwork > * add system-logout icon (part of {{Bug|207}}) > * add everything needed for the colorpicker. That is a small icon and a > bit in the gtkrc. > * fix triangular arrows by looking at the parent_bg_color option > * add icons for object transfers > > === etoys === > * offer full authoring-tools menu to all users > * make Anthy based Japanese input work > * add About flap on start screen > * enable screen scaling a bit more eagerly > * include icons for mimetypes > > > == Fructose news == > > === calculate === > * Support 'real' scientific notation {{OlpcBug|4250}} > * Add switching between exponential/scientific notation > * Allow changing of number of displayed digits > * Change cursor on equations to Hand {{OlpcBug|6612}} > * Fix fall-through of unhandled CTRL keys (eg CTRL+Q) > * Add recursion detection > * Fixed error-handling bug > > === read === > * {{OlpcBug|7343}} Enable a horizontal scroll bar > * {{OlpcBug|2837}} Implement TOC navigation in Read (sayamindu) > * {{Bug|145}} Prevent object chooser appearing when joining a shared session > > === browse === > * use cjson instead of json (nirbheek) > * new translations > > === chat === > * use cjson instead of simple-json (nirbheek) > * Updated translations: he, en_US, sv > > === write === > * Make use of the ColorToolButton that benzea landed in sugar-toolkit > * {{OlpcBug|3060}} Filter object chooser so it shows only images > * {{OlpcBug|8972}} Save to OpenDocument if we cannot export in the > original format > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel