Please point to some instructions on 'How to' use the .tar files for testers without a jhbuild installation. Thank you!
Simon Schampijer-2 wrote: > > Dear Sugar Community, > > This is Release Candidate 1 for the upcoming 0.84 Release - see [1] for > more details. Only two more weeks to go in this release cycle. Please > test this release and report all the bugs you find that we are able to > fix them in time. A friendly [2] will be available to triage those bugs > accordingly and the developers can never have enough bug food. If you > have non-bug feedback about features you can use the sugar-devel mailing > list to share it with us. > > From a user point of view we want to highlight the following changes > that have been made in this release: > > === Journal === > The translation of the dates in the Journal is working now again. Please > verify with your favorite language that this works for you. A 'Clear > search' button has been added to the 'No matching entries' message, > following Eben's specification. Also the space used and left is now > displayed in the volume palette in the Journal. > > ==== Journal entry palette ==== > The journal entry palette has seen some great improvements. We have a > 'View Details' option that brings you to the details of the entry > directly. Also the icon for the file transfer was designed and added by > Gary C. Martin. Furthermore you do not need to go to the detail view any > more to select the activity you want to start or resume the entry with - > this option is now available in the palette as well. > > === Naming Alert === > When you stop an activity from the Frame the activity is resumed and one > can refine the activity metadata in the Naming Alert. As well a saving > error of the activity will not prevent one any more from closing the > activity due to the Naming Alert. > > === Palettes === > There were some positioning issues of the palette that got fixed. Please > report back any issues you still find. Another palette related fix was > that on right click on an Access Point icon we do reveal the palette as > it is the behavior in all the other places in the UI and do not try to > connect to the Access Point. > > === Keep error when displaying a file in Browse, Read, ImageViewer === > This is one of my favorite fixes as this has been broken for quite a > while. When trying to display for example an image in Browse or the > ImageViewer there was an keep error when closing the activity. > > === Resume activity === > Last release we added the ability to resume an activity by default > instead of creating a new instance. The list of the available entries in > the palette when you hover of the activity in the home view is now > updated directly. As this is an interesting new feature, we would like > to hear about any issues you might have with it and positive feedback of > course as well. > > === Control Panel === > We now hide any OLPC-specific fields on non-xo machines. For example in > the 'About my Computer' section we display the build dependent on the > distribution (i.e. Fedora). As the Power section was only relevant on > the XO, it is hidden in non OLPC distributions. > > === Frame Devices === > Right-clicking on the speaker device icon does not mute the speakers > anymore. > > === Clipboard === > Several fixes were made to the detection of images dragged and dropped > to the clipboard in the Frame. > > > Thanks everyone for your great contributions! > > In behalf of the sugar community, > Your Release Team > > > [1] The Sucrose Release Schedule can be found here > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Roadmap#Schedule > > [2] More Info about the BugSquad at > http://sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad > > [3] You can find more details and screenshots at > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.83.5 > > > __________________________________________________________________________________ > > Modules that changed: > > == Glucose modules== > * sugar-toolkit 0.83.6: > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.83.6.tar.bz2 > > > > * sugar 0.83.7: > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.83.7.tar.bz2 > > > > * sugar-artwork 0.83.4: > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.83.4.tar.bz2 > > > > * sugar-datastore 0.83.3: > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.83.3.tar.bz2 > > > > == Glucose news == > > === sugar-toolkit === > * Dates in journal are not translated {{Bug|55}} > * Keep error when displaying a file in Browse, Read, ImageViewer, etc > {{Bug|258}} > * Palette positioning fixes {{Bug|298}} > * 'Resume' activity window when NamingAlert is displayed {{Bug|293}} > * Naming alert prevents activity close on keep error {{Bug|224}} > > === sugar === > > * Resume Activity list is not updated directly {{Bug|322}} > * Fix network panel on XO (Sascha Silbe) {{Bug|290}} > * Only show cp power section on xo {{Bug|320}} > * Add logout option to the buddy menu (Sayamindu) {{Bug|207}} > * Launch activity also when clicking on the palette icon {{Bug|335}} > * Use the activity icon for the 'Start new' palette item {{Bug|314}} > * Close the object chooser when the activity is closed {{Bug|329}} > * Dates in journal are not translated {{Bug|55}} > * Don't mute when right-clicking the speaker icon {{Bug|278}} > * Correctly cache the connection to the OHM service {{Bug|249}} > * Show launcher screen immediately after the user clicks to start an > activity {{Bug|243}} > * Use documend-send icon (Gary C Martin) {{Bug|227}} > * Try harder to get an icon for a clipping > * Hide the journal activity in the home view {{Bug|87}} > * Correctly initialize the TrayIcon > * Add 'View Details' option to object palette in journal > * Translation updates > * Hide OLPC-specific fields on non-xo machines {{Bug|133}} > * Add a 'Clear search' button to 'No matching entries' message {{Bug|266}} > * Correctly detect when a query in the journal is empty {{Bug|255}} > * Avoid launching two instances of the same activity instance {{Bug|238}} > * Add start-with option to objectpalette in the journal > * Fix dnd of icons in the favorite view {{Bug|213}} > * Right click on AP should reveal palette not connect to AP {{Bug|10}} > * Display space used and left in the volume palette in the journal > {{Bug|33}} > * Don't update the zoom level when a dialog window pops up > * Fix filtering the objectchooser with data types {{Bug|219}} > > === sugar-artwork === > * Add documend-send icon (Gary C Martin) {{Bug|227}} > * Add application-x-generic as a copy of application-octet-stream > {{Bug|13}} > * Add icons drive-harddisk and drive > > === sugar-datastore === > * Rename the installed package from olpc.datastore to carquinyol > * Only try to remove the checksum dir if it already exists > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/-ANNOUNCE--Sucrose-0.84-Release-Candidate-1-%280.83.5%29-tp2329664p2337130.html Sent from the It's an education project, not a laptop project. mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) 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