Issue 194

June 24, 2012

This week… 1377 commits, in 160 projects, by 197 happy hackers (and 247 were translation commits).

  • Christian Hergert changed gnome-desktop to draw monitor labels with rounded corners. (GNOME bug 591025)
  • In gcr Stef Walter reworked how DER pasing works.
  • Alexander Larsson added fast approximations of x2.4 and x(1/2.4) to speed up gamma conversion in babl. (GNOME bug 678318)
  • Lionel Landwerlin added touch events support in Clutter. (GNOME bug 678278)
  • In dia Hans Breuer fixed some SVG import error.
  • Seif Lotfy changed Empathy to show popular contacts in the “Top Contacts” group. (GNOME bug 678083)
  • Giovanni Campagna updated gnome-shell to sort wifi networks by strength. (GNOME bug 658946)
  • Carlos Garcia Campos landed the WebKit2 port of Epiphany.
  • Aurimas Černius added a WebDav sync addin to gnote.
  • In gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen added a settings dialog for power management and acoustic levels.
  • In gnome-control-center Thomas Bechtold contributed the possibility to find connections for a specific MAC address. (GNOME bug 677899)
  • Giovanni Campagna ported the clock from gnome-panel to modern GNOME technologies (gsettings, new libgweather, GDateTime). (GNOME bug 677512)
  • Paolo Bacchilega changed file-roller to be able to run as a D-Bus service as well (org.gnome.ArchiveManager1).

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Issue 193

June 17, 2012

This week… 1400 commits, in 146 projects, by 190 happy hackers (and 191 were translation commits).

  • Jon Dowland updated sound-juicer to use musicbrainz 5. (GNOME bug 676749)
  • Jeffrey Stedfast fixed decoding of some RFC 2184 parameters in gmime.
  • David Zeuthen updated gnome-disk-utility to show sample size and number of samples for benchmarks.
  • Sergio Villar Senin fixed libsoup to not accept cookies for well known public domains. (GNOME bug 673802)
  • Jeremy Whiting made libzeitgeist a hard dependency of folks. (GNOME bug 677428)
  • Guillaume Desmottes landed a new roster view into Empathy.
  • Christophe Fergeau added the possibility to disable SSL checks in librest. (GNOME bug 663786)
  • In gnome control center Stef Walter implemented enterprise logins in add dialog. (GNOME bug 677548)
  • Bastien Nocera changed gnome shell to always enable accessibility. (GNOME bug 678095)
  • Eslam Mostafa updated gnome-clocks to respect the 12/24h global settings.
  • In Meld Kai Willadsen added support for opening new tabs from D-Bus. (GNOME bug 616466)
  • Cosimo Cecchi updated Nautilus to allow dropping of files to bookmarks. (GNOME bug 645353)

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Issue 192

June 10, 2012

This week… 1757 commits, in 162 projects, by 200 happy hackers (and 252 were translation commits).

  • Daniel Drake added a disable-mouse-button-modifiers message to metacity, to be used in Sugar to disable mouse button modifiers. (GNOME bug 677115)
  • Christophe Fergeau fixed librest to avoid an infinite loop when passing wrong HTTP credentials. (GNOME bug 658937)
  • In gnome-media Sebastien Bacher fixed the gnome sound recorder to properly open the control center sound panel. (GNOME bug 667402)
  • In Evince Christian Persch added new APIs to load from streams and GFile. (GNOME bug 654832)
  • Paolo Bacchilega added the possibility for goobox to use libcoverart to fetch CD covers.
  • Milan Crha fixed the “mark as junk” functionality in evolution-ews. (GNOME bug 654543)
  • Bastian Winkler ported GtkGrid into Clutter, as a new ClutterGridLayout layout manager. (GNOME bug 677372)
  • Matthew Barnes landed the account-mgmt branches of evolution and evolution-data-server, a migration guide is available.
  • Richard Hughes changed gnome-settings-daemon updates plugin to automatically download updates rather than installing them.
  • Adel Gadllah updated gnome-shell to not display non urgent notifications while in fullscreen. (GNOME bug 677590)
  • Debarshi Ray merged SkyDrive support into gnome-documents. (GNOME bug 666535)

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Issue 191

June 3, 2012

This week… 1236 commits, in 206 projects, by 193 happy hackers (and 270 were translation commits).

  • Andy Spencer added a compass rose to the grits virtual globe library.
  • Bastian Winkler contributed support for optional transformation functions to pygobject. (GNOME bug 676169)
  • Rui Matos changed gnome-settings-daemon to apply XKB layouts by itself, and stop relying on libgnomekbd. (GNOME bug 676102)
  • Giovanni Campagna modified gnome-shell to show notifications for failed VPN connections. (GNOME bug 676330)
  • In glib Christian Persch added D-Bus register and unregister hooks to GApplication. (GNOME bug 675509)
  • Jonathan Matthew fixed the –set-rating command of rhythmbox-client. (GNOME bug 677318)
  • Paolo Bacchilega added an application menu to file-roller.
  • Taryn Fox added a serie of javascript examples to gnome-devel-docs.
  • Bastien Nocera added a new menu button widget to GTK+, as used in Totem and gnome-contacts. (GNOME bug 668013)
  • Emmanuele Bassi added a new “stopped” signal to Clutter timeline object. (GNOME bug 676854)

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