[Dextrose] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] OLPC OS 10.1.3 final release

[Steven Parrish]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Some things we may want to steal for Dextrose 2 or Dextrose 3:
>
>
> On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 11:59 +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>
>> ==New features==
>>
>> ===Collaboration "under a tree" on XO-1.5===
>> We have significantly improved collaboration when XO-1.5 is used with no
>> Access Points available ("under a tree"). The Neighborhood View now
>> shows three default Ad-hoc networks (for channels 1, 6, and 11) in
>> user-friendly icons, and XOs will auto-connect without user
>> intervention. This behavior is similar to the "mesh" behavior on XO-1.
>
> Already have.
>
>
>> ===Sharing/Backup Journal entries using a mass storage device===
>> You may now share Journal entries with another learner using a [[USB
>> drive]] or SD card. The user experience is: Martin wants to give a
>> picture he has been drawing to Simon. He plugs in his USB drive and
>> copies the Journal entry on the drive. Simon plugs in Martin's drive in
>> his laptop. The entry will be shown with Martin's XO color on the drive.
>> Simon copies Martin's entry into his Journal.
>>
>> You can use this feature to backup Journal entries to a USB drive or SD
>> card.
>
> Want.
>
>
>> ===Connect your XO to external projectors and monitors===
>> We have added support for USB2VGA adapters. You can now connect an XO to
>> a projector over a USB2VGA adapter and project what is on your XO screen
>> onto a screen or for many people to see.
>
> Want.
>
>
>> ===Screen Rotation on XO-1.5===
>> On XO-1.5 it is now possible to rotate the screen using the 'rotate'
>> button. This allows learners to use the XO in ebook mode.
>
> Want (we probably already have all the pieces)
>
>
>> ===Protected Activities Support===
>> In this build certain activities are protected from being deleted by
>> accident. In the activity list in the home view the erase option is
>> disabled for those. Protected activities are: Browse, Terminal, Log,
>> Write, ImageViewer and Record.
>
> Have.
>
>
>> ===Better interaction between GNOME and Sugar===
>> Switching between Sugar and GNOME user interfaces is smoother. Changes
>> of settings in GNOME now do not affect Sugar, and vice-versa.
>
> Want.
>
>
>> The ~/Activities directory is now hidden from the user in GNOME, to
>> prevent accidental deletions that could harm Sugar. The networking
>> settings are now synchronized so enabling/disabling networking is unified.
>
> Want.
>
>
>> Users can now change GNOME panels and fonts without risk of breaking
>> GNOME -- invalid settings are reset on restart.
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> Want.
>
>
>> The dialog to set a GNOME keyring password when connecting to a secure
>> wireless network has been disabled.
>
> Want.
>
>
>> ===Browse===
>> A home button has been added into the Browse toolbar. The button returns
>> to the home page, where important links are.
>
> Have?
>
>
>> A busy cursor has been added for when a page is loading. This was
>> present in 8.2.1 but missing from 10.1.2.
>
> Want.
>
>
>> Finally, previews for downloaded images have been added, so that the
>> Journal will show appropriate thumbnails of downloaded images.
>
> Want.
>
> (for the above, we probably need to rebase our Browse patches on the
> latest Browse on ASLO)
>
>
>> ===Paint===
>> The Paint activity has been improved a lot:
>>
>> * The cursor has been enhanced and realigned,
>> * Text tool has been improved
>> * New filters: invert colors and mirror effects
>> * Tool size and shape are shown
>> * Improvements to copy and paste
>
> Have
>
>
>> ===Read===
>> Scrolling has been improved.  The up and down directional keypad to the
>> left of the XO display will now scroll, which is especially useful if
>> the laptop is in ebook mode. Using the fn key with the up and down arrow
>> keys will now scroll by page.
>
> Not sure we have this. Is it also in the 0.88 version of Read?
>
>
>> ===Write===
>> You can now paste images into Write. Images can be copied from Browse,
>> Paint or Write. You can now put images into tables and export to PDF.
>>
>> The style list has been reordered to place paragraph text styles before
>> heading styles.
>
> Ditto.
>
>
>> ===Wikipedia===
>> Page loading has been sped up and several smaller fixes made.
>
> Want?
>
>
>> ===Scratch===
>> A new camera plugin adds importing from camera on XO-1.
>
> Probably have.
>
>
>> ===Activity Updates===
>> We included the latest versions of Calculate, Colors, Distance, Etoys,
>> Help, InfoSlicer, Jukebox, Labyrinth, Memorize, Physics, Pippy, Turtle
>> Art and Typing Turtle.
>
> Have.
>
>
>> ===System Lid Behavior===
>> When the lid is closed on the XO, the laptop will suspend its operations
>> and turn off the screen.  Historically re-opening the lid has turned on
>> the screen and woken up the laptop for normal use.  In order to avoid a
>> problem where stacked XO units may accidentally turn each other back on,
>> this wake-up behavior has been disabled.  To wake up the laptop from
>> suspend press the power button once.
>
> Probably have already (is the fix in powerd?).
>
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I agree we should add these to our roadmap and get them into DX2 and
ported into DX3.

Steven