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_ander...@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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing > listSugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.orghttp://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >
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