[Sugar-devel] [Announcing] UNSTABLE 0.107.2 release (API, UI and Strings freeze)

[Martin Abente]

The search box allows the user to type e.g. "turtle" and then launch e.g.
Turtle Blocks activity, I think is very useful.

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
wrote:

> Some confusion probably caused by not reading the proposals for this
> release. I was not aware there was a search box in the Home View. What is
> its
> function?
>
> Currently, the XO palette is open when the Home View appears. This is
> presumably a bug and not a feature which will be fixed by putting the focus
> on the search box. I hope this new search box has a sufficiently useful
> function for all XOs to justify this grab for attention.
>
> The problem with the palette is that it is modal and no action can be
> taken on the keyboard (e.g. switch to Journal or Neighborhood View or look
> at Frame) until the cursor is moved. This, of course, requires one more
> step in 'onboarding' to make users aware of the disabling nature of modal
> dialogs.
>
> Tony
>
>
> On 01/23/2016 05:27 PM, Martin Abente wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am pleased to announce the release of Sugar 0.107.2 (unstable). This
> release means that we have reached the API, UI and Strings freeze deadline
> [1] and that we should focus on making sure there are no missing
> translations or exceptional bugs left.
>
> This release comes with the following improvements:
>
>    - Collaboration works on newer systems (e.g. Fedora 23) with
>    activities that do not use Tubes (e.g. Chat).
>    - The search box in home view grabs focus automatically.
>    - More little steps on documenting our toolkit.
>
> The tarballs can be downloaded from:
>
>    -
>    http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.107.2.tar.xz
>    -
>    http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.107.2.tar.xz
>    -
>    http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.107.2.tar.xz
>    -
>    http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.107.2.tar.xz
>    -
>    http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-runner/sugar-runner-0.107.2.tar.xz
>
>
> Special thanks to Sam Parkinson, Nick DeFilippis and our Google Code-In
> students for his contributions, and to James Cameron and Gonzalo Odiard for
> the reviewing work.
>
>
> Regards,
> Martin.
>
> Refs:
> [1] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.108/Roadmap
>
>
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