Test group release notes/2009 and earlier

Build 478, RC1 notes

Change log since 472:
Base OS:

• Add avahi-autoipd

• Fix up keysymbols for keyboard

• NetworkManager
  • Autoip work

• Sugar
  • Better palette positioning
  • Reject invalid nick names in the intro screen
  • Make startup notification work from the journal and clipboard
  • Do not create a new object when resuming from the journal

Activities:

• Web
  • Arabic translation

• Journal
  • Button to copy objects to the clipboard.
  • Spanish and Arabic translations.
  • Palette positioning fix.

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• I was able to connect to my home AP with WEP key. One XO worked the first time and one of them took about 3 tries of entering the WEP key (and I'm pretty confident I used the right key).
• On another XO, when it wouldn't connect to my AP, I logged in as root, typed 'ifconfig' and saw that there was no eth0 interface. I typed 'ifup eth0' twice (the first time it failed). And then it connected to my AP. (I'll write this up as a bug)
• After the first XO connected to the infrastructure AP, I tried to connect the second XO via the Mesh. That was never able to connect, but I did see that an 'olpc-mesh' ad-hock network shows up on iStumbler.
• I was able to open a number of activities (pretty much one at a time) and do some basic testing. Everything responded very slowly and gets incredibly slow after only a few minutes of trying to test. When it got to the point of no response in about 60 seconds (for something that usually takes only a few seconds), then I would reboot.
• I'm not sure how to close some activities.
• At this point I think we can start adding bugs to trac.

- Kim

Build 472 notes

• XO is not getting on the mesh.

==> (J5) For now if you want you can log into root at a terminal and type:

 chmod +x /etc/NetworkManager/callouts/*

• Some activities loaded and started up... the camera keeps hanging for me; I did get a picture out of it before the activity got hung up.
• The activities that did start up showed up in the journal, and provided a more detailed view. Resume worked for me on the newsreader activity which had started up properly.

- Kim

• Like Kim said, the mesh is very broken. It couldn't successfully connect to begin with, so I had no internect connection. Also, if you go to Neighborhood and right-clicked on the Mesh icon, it (as well as all the wireless access points) disappeared from the view.
• Additionally, right-clicking on a wireless access point icon got me stuck in Neighborhood view - couldn't open frames or switch views.
• The biggest improvement seems to be that Journal appears to be working a lot better. Resume and preview work now, and search appears to at least open up a search window, though it doesn't find much (unless I type nothing in the text field).
• Shared activities now appear on the mesh.
• I can't quit out of journal anymore, which is good.
• If the user is supposed to be able to click with the trackpad, the sensitivity is still off. On at least one occasion I moused over the "shutdown" option in the middle of the screen and phantom-clicked it. Actually, that does highlight a potential flaw with the click-shutdown icon being in the middle of the screen - even without the trackpad problem, the chance of accidentally clicking it when, say, trying to click an icon on the donut, would be considerable.
• Didn't have any problems with Camera - all activities loaded fine for me except Paint and Call - but the real-time display is still not functional.
• Chat and Call have the same activity icon.
• Paint, rotate screen, and frame toggle are still broken in all the same ways as 466.
• When left idle for ~20 minutes, the screen's display bugged out. Looked like it was trying to go into suspend, but messed up.

- John

Build 466 notes

• Search feature in Journal is broken, and you cannot Resume from Journal.
• Journal is not on the taskbar, but unlike 465 it opens properly upon boot now. However, since I can still quit out of it with alt-C, there should either be a) a way to open it from the taskbar or b) no way to quit out of it.

==> Quit out of it with ctl c.

• Opening Paint completely breaks the activity donut (this was a problem in 465 too). Once Paint is opened, icons no longer appear on the donut, and clicking the spaces on the donut will not switch you to that activity. All the icons for activities you open appear clipped on the left side of the screen. Also, Paint itself doesn't open properly either.
• Frequently, activities will open when I mouse over them on the taskbar but don't click them. This was an issue in 465 and it seems even more prevalent now.
• Mouse speed is still much higher than before (is this intentional?)
• Frame Toggle key does not work.
• Rotate screen key does not do anything.
• Cannot power down by pressing the power button - you must either use the option from the XO icon at the center of the donut, or hold down the power button.
• Read now has an icon for opening files (as opposed to 465), but it doesn't work.
• Camera still has no real-time display and the video function is still broken.

- John

• When you press the power button, nothing happens (if you hold it down for >5 seconds it shuts down immediately). This is going to be suspend soon...so think of it as a feature.
• To shut down, now you can use the icon on the home page. When you hover over your XO icon you will get see a shutdown flyover. This worked for me.
• I opened Abiword, wrote some text, then went to the journal. It showed a new entry, after another click or two I saw a third Abiword entry. None of them let me resume.
• I tried opening other activities (camera, calc, paint) and they would show up in the donut while it was trying to open, then just disappear.
• After closing the journal with CTL C, I was able to open another activity (paint).
• After some inactivity, the screen went into a suspend mode and resumed when I hit a key! (I believe that is the proper behavior)

- Kim