GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 3183 commits, in 208 projects, by 294 happy hackers (and 1032 were translation commits).

• In gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen landed the new ATA SMART user interface.
• Rhythmbox gained support for downloading cover art from discogs.com and MusicBrainz (GNOME bug 410684).
• The libchamplain map widget gained support for keyboard shortcuts, to navigate and zoom the map . (GNOME bug 582872)
• Ekiga switched to boost for both smart pointers and signals (GNOME bug 575005)
• The “kill-bonobo” branch of Evolution is now the “master” git branch, this marked 45 old bugs as fixed.
• gconf-editor has been ported to PolicyKit 1.0 . (GNOME bug 585596)
• A shutter sound will now be played when taking a screenshot (GNOME bug 592372).
• Gnome Shell improved the way it displays search results, it now has bigger fonts and brighter colour for the headings, and more padding.
• Daniel Elstner worked on the C++ bindings so they could get their API references published on library.gnome.org.
• Jean Bréfort moved gnumeric to use GooCanvas instead of FooCanvas.
• Finally devhelp has been ported to make use of libunique.

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This week… 1687 commits, in 167 projects, by 184 happy hackers (and 391 were translation commits).

• In Conduit, John Stowers added a new dataprovider that changes the desktop wallpaper, and suggests connecting to a flickr RSS feed…
• Sound Juicer media support has been ported from libnautilusburn to libbrasero-media . (GNOME bug 567286)
• After much testing Behdad Esfahbod removed the ClassDef->Defined field in Pango, and the associated special-handling code; he wrote “The special-casing was consuming lots of memory. EIGHT MEGABYTES for loading DejaVu Sans! While this could be complete fixed, I decided to remove the special-handling code altogether. I don’t think it will make any real difference, and if it does, we’ll fix fonts.”; in another commit he also saved over 2000 alloc calls when loading DejaVu Sans.
• Deskbar got an OpenSearch module . (GNOME bug 528184)
• Cosimo Cecchi implemented write support for the ObexFTP gvfs backend . (GNOME bug 519071)
• Following libnotify acceptance as an external dependency, Empathy got support and will now show a popup notification when receiving a new message.
• Ryan Lortie added _async functions for GDataInputStream (async versions of read_line and read_until ). (GNOME bug 568575)
• file-roller got ported to use gtkbuilder instead of libglade.
• A good bunch of memory leaks were fixed in brasero.
• The Volume Control balance widget got updated to use the new GTK+ scale marks.
• Banshee got a basic clutter UI for rendering the video texture from the clutter sink in the media pipeline.
• Theppitak Karoonboonyanan went on building modules out of their source trees and filed bugs and patches against those failing, many of those issues are already fixed (in gnome-settings-daemon, Ekiga, Brasero and gnome-keyring).
• Callum McKenzie finally killed the last bit of libgnome in gnome-applets; and returned the mixer applet.
• Long standing GTK+ bug (lastly spotted in a post on Planet Gnome by Ruben Vermeersch) got nailed with a patch from Simos Xenitellis . (GNOME bug 162726)
• Rhythmbox improved its handling of transcoding format selection for MTP devices, now preferring MP3 over M4A/AAC . (GNOME bug 567524)
• Pavel Kostyuchenko work on Anjuta/Glade3 integration (part of GSoC, see project his proposal) finally got commited . (GNOME bug 542412)

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This week… 1123 commits, in 144 projects, by 154 happy hackers (and 120 were translation commits).

• Ted Gould posted about gtk_timeout_add_seconds and a few modules (anjuta, ekiga, totem, libbonobo, libegg, brasero) already got fixes.
• Niepce Digital got imported in subversion repository.
• Xan Lopez added support for the WebKit web inspector in Epiphany (and Robert Carr did the same thing for seed minibrowser).
• Vincent Untz got back hacking on gnome-panel, removal of libgnomeui and deprecated API usage, single include, bug fixes and stuff.
• vino added correct support for IPv4 mapped IPv6, and added a new feature to able to set the network interface to listen on (GNOME bug 403183).
• gvfs got a new trash backend written by Ryan Lortie.
• Nautilus gained the possibility to call PackageKit to install applications for for unsupported mime types.
• German Poo-Caamano gave some love to gnome-nettool (portability fixes, better accessibility support, and other fixes and enhancements).
• gtkhtml got improved smileys (toolbar to insert them, obedience to the icon naming specification; screenshots are available in GNOME bug 563841.
• Also, Przemysław Grzegorczyk wrote a lot of patches to clean up GLib and GTK+ includes, see GNOME bug 563413. This earned him a Subversion account.

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This week… 1363 commits, in 162 projects, by 184 happy hackers (and 164 were translation commits).

• The getting-rid-of-libgnome-and-gnome-vfs quest continues with Ekiga losing its dependency on libgnome and Anjuta removing some gnome-vfs usage
• Matthias Clasen added lockdown support in the gnome-settings-daemon keybinding plugin (GNOME bug 553434)
• In rhythmbox Christophe Fergeau switched several g_timeout_add to g_timeout_add_seconds so it wakes up the CPU less often; and Bastien Nocera added detection of the new PSP-3000
• Bedhad Esfahbod added pangocairo backend to vte, and made it the default; it is as fast as the xft backend.
• NetworkManager got support for PKCS#12 private keys
• Evince got support for PDF layers (but it doesn’t seem like such support has been merged in poppler yet)
• Murray Cumming created projects.gnome.org, to host project pages that were on www.gnome.org/projects/; he posted to devel-announce to explain the motivation and implications
• Finally, in GTK+-land, Michael Natterer added the new orientation API to GtkRange

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