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 > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Sugar-devel mailing list > >> [7]Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > >> [8]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >> > >>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@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>[8] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Sugar-devel mailing list > >>Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel