[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.85.2 Development Release

[Art Hunkins]

FWIW, I would surely appreciate readable text (as in, *larger size*).

To me, readable size = <big><big> in XML terms. (I'm currently trying to 
change my Activity text in this way - to make it readable on SoaS. I have 
filed a bug report to this effect.)

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Schampijer" <simon at schampijer.de>
To: "Sugar Devel" <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
Cc: "iaep" <iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org>
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 8:31 AM
Subject: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.85.2 Development Release


> Dear Sugar Community,
>
> This is the second development release in the 0.86 release cycle - see
> the schedule [1] for more details. Note, that we are two weeks late with
> this release, as we wanted to land some of the features so we can get
> feedback on, especially the toolbar redesign. This will have no effect
> on the final release date, though.
>
> We are getting closer to the feature freeze and a few features have been
> landed in this release. Please test them carefully and report any bug
> and workflow issues you find to get them in good shape for the release.
> A friendly BugSquad [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:
>
> === Switch to Metacity window manager===
> Sugar switches the window manager from Matchbox to Metacity. Matchbox is
> designed for small devices that run all applications maximized. Sugar
> can run in devices with bigger screens and some applications break when
> run in Matchbox. Using Metacity instead means that some unsugarized apps
> would run better inside Sugar and that Sugar activities would behave
> better when run outside Sugar.
>
> === Flash Activities ===
> Gnash has been added to the Sugar Platform, meaning that authors of
> educative content can use Flash tools [3] to create activities for Sugar.
>
> === Activity Toolbar redesign ===
> The activity toolbar has been redesigned, since the design of using tabs
> to group options, an activity can have, did not turn out to work so
> well. More details about the new toolbar design [4]. The redesign gives
> a solution for the "stop activity issue" pointed out in #452. Browse and
> Write have been ported to use the new Toolbar design.
>
> === Tabs in Browse ===
> Links that would open in a new window now open in new tabs inside the
> main activity window similar to the behavior in other browsers. Though
> this feature [5] isn't proposing any way for the user to explicitly open
> any link in a new tab, or explicitly create a new tab.
>
> === Ad hoc Networking ===
> The new ad hoc networking facilities allows users to connect with each
> other over wireless in an ad hoc manner without infrastructure like an
> Access Point. This is the so called under a tree scenario. OLPC provided
> that functionality based on hardware mesh. This feature allows to
> provide that functionality with nearly all the wireless hardware.
> Furthermore it allows you to do share an internet connection using the
> same mechanism.
>
> === Read ===
> The read activity does support now Epub files. For getting epubs,
> http://www.feedbooks.com and http://www.epubbooks.com/ can be
> recommended. Furthermore this version will let you associate (add and
> edit) notes with your bookmarks, and has a slightly more useful
> fullscreen view (you can now get a rough idea of how much battery is
> left in your laptop/netbook without invoking the frame).
>
> == Compatibility ==
> There are no known compatibility issues, as of today.
>
> == Update to this version ==
> Please use the instructions for your distribution (Fedora, Ubuntu,
> Debian etc) of choice to update to this release.
>
> == What is new for packagers ==
> Please see the details at [7]. The locations of the tarballs are listed
> in the release notes as well.
>
>
> Thanks everyone for your great contributions! You can find more infos
> and pictures at [8].
>
> In behalf of the sugar community,
>    Your Release Team
>
>
> [1] Schedule: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Roadmap#Schedule
> [2] BugSquad: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad
> [3] Flash Activities:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Flash_Activities
> [4] Toolbar: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/New Toolbar Design
> [5] Tabs: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Tabs_In_Browse
> [6] Ad hoc Networking:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Ad_hoc_Networking
> [7] Packagers info:
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/0.85.2_Notes#What_is_new_for_packagers
> [8] Notes: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/0.85.2_Notes
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