[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.84 Release Candidate 1 (0.83.5)

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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
> 
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