• In the camel-gobject branch of Evolution, Matthew Barnes replaced Camel’s homegrown type system with GObject.
• Brasero got Tracker support in its search pane . (GNOME bug 465660)
• Simon van der Linden added a method to compare GIBaseInfo objects (GNOME bug 590527)
• Pitivi got preliminary support for video mixing.
• Brian Cameron added back Include, Exclude, and IncludeAll configuration options to GDM, to select which users should be visible; the option had been removd in the 2.22 rewrite. (GNOME 557553)
• Florian Müllner improved the GNOME Shell to switch from the overview to the confirmation dialog some applications display before closing, when an application is closed from the overview . (GNOME bug 602532).
• Also in the GNOME Shell, to support a message tray, Dan Winship added a notification daemon service.
• After doing a first serie of commands two weeks ago, Xavier Claessens added support for the /nick command to Empathy . (GNOME bug 602066)
• Evince has been modified to display files attached to PDF documents (it requires poppler from git master ). (GNOME bug 601839)
• The GNOME Icon Theme got special icons for XDF folders (documents, download, music, pictures…).

Top projects

Project	Commits
gtk+	150
tracker	85
hamster-applet	82
evolution	56
empathy	56
banshee	50
totem	46
gnumeric	34
nautilus-actions	33
pitivi	29

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Matej Urbančič	87	gnome-system-tools, file-roller, gnome-control-center and others
Christian Dywan	75	gtk+, glib
Toms Bauģis	73	hamster-applet
Javier Jardón	61	gtk+, glib, gtk-web and others
Bastien Nocera	48	totem, gnome-bluetooth, nautilus-sendto and others
Matthew Barnes	48	evolution, evolution-data-server, gnomeweb-wml and others
Guillaume Desmottes	35	empathy
Jorge González	34	evolution, libgda, empathy and others
Morten Welinder	31	gnumeric, goffice, libgsf
Pierre Wieser	31	nautilus-actions

• Banshee was migrated to the Last.fm 2.0 API . (GNOME bug 541227)
• A general search feature has been added to Rygel, including Tracker.
• The GtkNotebook widget got an “action area”, to be used for things like having a single close tab button to the right of all tabs. Johannes Schmid wrote about it in his weblog: GtkNotebook action widgets . (GNOME bug 116650)
• Totem gained an on-screen display when in fullscreen mode, Bastien Nocero announced it in A little OSD . (GNOME bug 600985)
• Simon van der Linden added the possibility to import wrappers from pygi to pygobject.
• The GNOME Shell got presence items added to the status menu . (GNOME bug 601458)
• Behdad Esfahbod reverted a commit to vte, as not clearing the alternate screen caused issues with less.
• Basic Mac OS X integration (menu, dock, bundle) has been pushed to gedit.
• Empathy was fixed to ask for password when joining a protected room (GNOME bug 579341)
• The View Properties dialog of Gnumeric was converted to be instant-apply.
• William Walker added provisional support for GNOME Shell magnifier service to Orca.

• Totem got (on-disk) buffering support for downloads, Bastien Nocera blogged about it: No more stuttering.
• The gvfs webdav backend has been changed to remember cookies while it’s running.
• Carlos Garnocho made the SPARQL API of Tracker fully asynchronous.
• Postr (the GNOME Flickr Uploader) has been improved to allow direct editing of title and description, when double clicking (or pressing the Return key) on the photo . (GNOME bug 562162)
• Xavier Claessens added support for some IRC slash commands to Empathy, the currently supported commands are /clear, /topic, /join, /query and /msg . (GNOME bug 573407)
• Also in Empathy Guillaume Desmottes added the display of an error message when codec negotation fails . (GNOME bug 581789)
• The GNOME screensaver got a D-Bus method to show a message on the locked screen, to be used for notification of auto logout.
• In GNOME Shell Dan Winship started a message-tray branch, with some minimal Telepathy support, it has a notification popup for messages and avatar icons.
• Brasero got gobject introspection support for its libraries . (GNOME bug 589073)
• libsoup has been fixed to not change HEAD to GET on 303 redirect.
• A new Google Translate plugin has been added to Kupfer (the command tool inspired by Quicksilver).

¹: actually this commit count is wrong as the same branch is created and deleted several times, to get rebased, changing the commit identifiers along the way.

• A full screen mode has been added to emerillon (GNOME bug 599764).
• John Wendell fixed several memory leaks in Vinagre and gtk-vnc.
• A new “Document License” tab has been added to Evince, it can display license information embedded in PDF files (GNOME bug 349173)
• In GNOME Games, gnometris got renamed to quadrapassel (due to trademark concerns), and same-gnome to swell-foop (due to “GNOME” in the old name).
• Support for group profiles has been added to Sabayon, thanks to Scott Balneaves.
• GTK+ was updated to use standard Mac shortcuts on Mac OS X (Cmd-X, Cmd-C, etc .). (GNOME bug 530351)
• Ignacio Casal Quinteiro ported gedit to GSettings, in the appropriately named gsettings branch of gedit; this is still a work in progress.
• Thomas Thurman added a first theme using CSS to the cowbell branch of metacity, the theme is named Sunshine.
• Peter Bloomfield marked important items in the balsa toolbars, so they work better with the new “text besides icons” default.
• Andreas J. Guelzow added ODF compability function “SHEETS” to Gnumeric.
• Matthew Barnes started porting Evolution from libglade to GtkBuilder.
• Finally usage of libgnomevfs has been removed from gnome-pilot.

¹: actually this commit count is wrong as the same branch is created and deleted several times, to get rebased, changing the commit identifiers along the way.

• A fullscreen mode has been added to xchat-gnome (GNOME bug 445638).
• Jonh Wendell added the ability to use JPEG compression (thus lossy encoding) to vinagre . (GNOME bug 573272)
• Evince has been changed to always use a different process for every document.
• Eog got support for animated images, it plays animated images as supported by GdkPixbufAnimation (GNOME bug 335093).
• gnome-pilot was ported to GtkBuilder, and removed most of its usage of libgnomeui.
• Empathy removed its applets (megaphone, nothere) and Python bindings of libempathy and libempathy-gtk, on the premise they were unused and applications should use telepathy-glib, and a future telepathy-gtk, via gobject-introspection.
• Colin Walters updated the GNOME Shell to use a stable ordering for well-known icons in the notification area (volume, battery, network… ;). (GNOME bug 598313)
• Brasero got changed to no longer store some settings with GConf anymore (like window size or position of widgets) but to save and load them using GKeyFile instead.
• Thomas Thurman worked quite a lot on the “cowbell” metacity branch, to allow styling of window borders using CSS, he also posted a status update.
• Ray Strode made DeviceKit-power optional in gdm.
• GNOME Disk Utility got handling of LUKS volumes.
• Martyn Rucell updated the Totem tracker plugin to the new (0.7) tracker API.
• Paolo Bacchilega added PackageKit support to File Roller, so it will now prompt for new packages when opening archives that require an uninstalled tool.

• The new GtkFileSystemModel worked by Benjamin Otte and Federico Mena Quintero has been pushed to GTK+.
• Also in GTK+, a new GtkSpinner widget has been commited . (GNOME bug 319607)
• libsoup was changed to allow multiple pending connections to a server at once, as only allowing a single connection attempt at once really slows down pages with lots of subresources on servers that disallow persistent connections . (GNOME bug 594768)
• gdm has been converted from using gnome-power-manager to DeviceKit-power . (GNOME bug 596569)
• Jason Clinton pushed the Clutter rewrite of the Nibbles game, done by Guillaume Beland during his summer of code.
• Vinagre has been updated to keep the aspect ratio when using scaling mode . (GNOME bug 593192)
• Jason Childs added support for transparent objects in dia, by adding alpha to the Color structure . (GNOME bug 591525)
• Devhelp has been modified to look for an existing local copy of documents referred by their library.gnome.org location . (GNOME bug 598598)
• xml2po has been fixed to work with parallel builds . (GNOME bug 593175)
• Balsa, Gimp and goffice were all ported to compile fine with GSEAL enabled.

• Nautilus gained a “copy anyway” option in the error dialog it displays when there is not enough space on the destination . (GNOME bug 324361)
• Richard Hugues probably added Super Cow Powers to gnome-packagekit, carefully hiding this fact in 50 commits with “Moo”, or a slight variation, as commit message.
• Ryan Lortie merged the various dconf* utilities in a single “dconf” tool, also he added API documentation.
• The gtk-2.90 branch was created and saw the removal of many deprecated widgets and functions.
• Devhelp got a new fullscreen mode, mostly thanks to code from gedit.
• In Evolution Matthew Barnes finally got pane size restoration to play nicely with maximised windows . (GNOME bug 593612)
• gok has been migrated to use GtkBuilder instead of libglade . (GNOME bug 582504)
• gvfs has been fixed to display the overwrite dialog when restoring already existing files from trash . (GNOME bug 596618)
• Rhythmbox has been ported to use gnome-session for inhibition support, inhibiting the session to go idle (thus preventing gnome-power-manager from suspending the computer due to inactivity ). (GNOME bug 596573)
• Marina Zhurakhinskaya extented GNOME Shell application search to match on menu categories . (GNOME bug 597153)

• Robin Sonefors contributed a prime factorization function to gcalctool (GNOME bug 563217).
• Evolution got rid of all the deprecated GTK+ symbols it used (GNOME bug 572348).
• Pascal Terjan ported the Pidgin nautilus-sendto plugin to use Pidgin D-Bus API (GNOME bug 597039).
• GNOME Shell added a calendar pop-down to the clock (GNOME bug 596432).
• Sound Juicer has been converted to use the Inhibit interface from gnome-session (GNOME bug 596570).
• Vinagre got configurable depth support (in the “depth” branch, to be merged once a new gtk-vnc release gets out ). (GNOME bug 485204)
• Thanks to the efficient scrollback store in vte 0.22 Christian Persch added support for unlimited scrollback to gnome-terminal.
• Nautilus gained a checkbox for not assocating a filetype on open with . (GNOME bug 92497)
• Ryan Lortie commited GSettings property binding support and a GValue serialiser into the gsettings glib branch.
• Empathy fixed its handling of fallback HTML files in Adium themes . (GNOME bug 596303)

• The Perl bindings written by Emmanuel Rodriguez have been merged into libchamplain.
• A branch by Alexander Sack reworking NetworkManager menu has been uploaded (it is named “menu-rework”).
• Mark Kasik added support for the ‘auth-info’ attribute to the CUPS print backend of GTK + (GNOME bug 566522).
• Deprecated GTK+ symbols have been removed from gok (GNOME bug 572686).
• Ryan Lortie published a gsettings branch of Devhelp, demonstrating the conversion from GConf to GSettings.
• GNOME Shell has been updated to not treat 1024×600 as widescreen (GNOME bug 596375).
• The GNOME Volume Control has been changed to allow going up to 150% for output volume (GNOME bug 591285).
• Brasero has been fixed to not leak the CD drive device file descriptor, that kept the drive locked . (GNOME bug 596241)
• Evolution has been changed to use Message-ID instead of Message-Id, for increased compatibility with other applications (GNOME bug 596157).
• Ross Burton switched evolution-data-server calendar to D-Bus instead of Bonobo, in the “dbus-calendar” branch.

• This is the week before the 2.28.0 and translators are working like crazy, Maithili support literally jumped from 43% to 55%, Asturian also jumped, progressing of 8 points; Galician, German and Hungarian all reached 100% of UI strings translated.
• Brasero got event sound support, sounds will be played when a CD finished burning . (GNOME bug 594954)
• A new WebSharing extension has been added to F-Spot.
• Ryan Lortie added a D-Bus service for dconf (GNOME bug 595479).
• Epiphany gained back its context menu, thanks to the new WebKitHitTestResult support in WebKit.
• Nemiver gained support for editing breakpoint condition.
• Evolution got rid of its dependency on libgnome and libgnomeui, Matthew Barnes blogged on how Evolution is now 100% Bonobo free . (GNOME bug 567283)
• Screen locking on suspend or hibernate has been fixed in gnome-session (GNOME bug 595154)
• XChat-GNOME got an option to hide its statusbar (GNOME bug 524030).
• GNOME Shell has been updated to make the run dialog and “looking glass” debug console work in the overview . (GNOME bug 595116)
• David Zeuthen added GObject introspection support to PolkitGtk.