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

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Martin

That is what clicking on the turtle icon does. Is this better on an XO-4 
than tapping on the turtle?

Tony

On 01/24/2016 07:11 PM, Martin Abente wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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