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

[James Cameron]

Yes, the palette opening is a regression, it didn't do it in 0.82.

Yes, activities "sometimes" not marked as a favourite was recently
fixed by Martin on #4841.

https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/629

But unfortunately it wasn't reviewed in time, so it will only be in
OLPC packages.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 03:45:43AM +0400, Tony Anderson wrote:
> Hi, James
> 
> My apologies. I even see it the search box on a 0.82. I am traveling at the
> moment so I can't check this out further. On the 0.82 XO-1, the
> search is blacked
> out.
> 
> Shows how you can not see what you are not looking for.
> 
> On the 0.82 version, the cursor is centered when the Home View opens,
> but in that version, the 'palette' opened only on a right-click.
> 
> As you can imagine, I have the teachers switch to the List View and make
> activities favorites. This has happened when installing a new version of an
> activity from a usb key - sometimes it is not marked as a favorite.
> 
> Tony
> 
> On 01/25/2016 01:37 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> >The home view search has been there for years.  It allows activities
> >to be started by name, and is especially useful when the activity is
> >not a favourite.  It can be used by teachers to avoid problems with
> >children who have removed an activity from their favourites.
> >
> >The buddy icon palette is open on startup because;
> >
> >1.  the operating system sets the cursor position to centre of screen,
> >
> >2.  Sugar puts an icon under the cursor, and immediately receives an
> >event saying the cursor has entered the icon,
> >
> >3.  Sugar doesn't recognise the difference between this event and a
> >genuine cursor movement,
> >
> >4.  Sugar displays the palette.
> >
> >Because of sugar-build and VirtualBox, most developers won't have
> >noticed this bug.  In an emulated environment, the cursor is rarely
> >positioned this way.
> >
> >No, you're wrong about not being able to switch view.  Even with the
> >palette up, the view hot keys respond properly.  The palette isn't
> >modal.
> >
> >On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 06:35:43PM +0400, Tony Anderson 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:
> >>       □ [1]http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/
> >>         sugar-0.107.2.tar.xz
> >>       □ [2]http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/
> >>         sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.107.2.tar.xz
> >>       □ [3]http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/
> >>         sugar-artwork-0.107.2.tar.xz
> >>       □ [4]http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/
> >>         sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.107.2.tar.xz
> >>       □ [5]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] [6]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.108/Roadmap
> >>
> >>
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> >>References:
> >>
> >>[1] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.107.2.tar.xz
> >>[2] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.107.2.tar.xz
> >>[3] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.107.2.tar.xz
> >>[4] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-datastore/sugar-datastore-0.107.2.tar.xz
> >>[5] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-runner/sugar-runner-0.107.2.tar.xz
> >>[6] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.108/Roadmap
> >>[7] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >>[8] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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