GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 2699 commits, in 227 projects, by 271 happy hackers (and 1213 were translation commits).

• 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.

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This week… 2529 commits, in 212 projects, by 272 happy hackers (and 838 were translation commits).

• We are approaching the 2.28.0 release and with freezes in place translators are now the heavy contributors, highlights of this week are the Serbian and Catalan teams, increasing their completion status by over five percents, and the Portuguese and Spanish teams, achieving 100% translated strings for the UI.
• A new “Auto DJ” feature has been contributed to Banshee, it will add new randomly selected tracks to the play queue when it gets empty (GNOME bug 565767)
• Kupfer, a simple launcher in the style of Gnome Do, added a new Calculator plugin and a new “Rename To…” action.
• Vincent Untz updated gnome-menus and gnome-panel to work with the new X-GNOME-FullName .desktop key.
• Rygel added support for publishing thumbnails of media items . (GNOME bug 590702)
• Alexander Larsson did some GObject performance work (in the glib gobject-performance branch), improving the speed of instance creation for classes that do not have properties, and the interface lookup algorithm.
• Brasero got a new “introspection” branch where support for gobject introspection is developed.
• The display order of files in Eye of GNOME, that was broken for some locales, has been fixed by Felix Riemann . (GNOME bug 594403)
• The adblock Epiphany extension has been updated to work with Epiphany/webkit, Xan Lopez blogged this and other Epiphany features . (GNOME bug 562762)

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This week… 2207 commits, in 200 projects, by 262 happy hackers (and 654 were translation commits).

• Michael Natterer added support for layer trees in Gimp, the UI still needs to be improved but there is now a Folder button in the layers dialog . (GNOME bug 86337)
• Totem browser plugin now overrides the HTTP user-agents for Quicktime and Windows Media Player, this fixes playback of the Apple trailers . (GNOME bug 375867)
• David Zeuthen started a “new-ui” branch to rework the UI of libgdu-gtk and palimpset.
• Brasero has been fixed to not use readcd (-clone) to copy audio CD, as it doesn’t keep CD-TEXT . (GNOME bug 580813)
• Epiphany gained back its “view source” command . (GNOME bug 503968)
• A new g_mkstemp_full() function has been added to glib, to expose more parameters than g_mkstemp(), allowing more flexibility when creating temporary files . (GNOME bug 594034)
• In Gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow added handling of ODF import/export of surface plots originally created in Excel . (GNOME bug 594041)
• Matthew Barnes updated the “mailing-list-actions”, “save-calendar” and “publish-calendar” evolution plugins to the bonobo-liberated Evolution.
• On the same topic Lucian Langa started porting evolution-rss for the new Evolution.

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This week… 1813 commits, in 179 projects, by 261 happy hackers (and 401 were translation commits).

• Totem has been updated to use its new logo in both the browser plugin and main player (GNOME bug 480200), and to display embedded cover images in audio streams (GNOME bug 581249).
• Marek Kašík added SVG support to GtkPrintBackendFile, this allows printing to SVG 1.2 files. (GNIME bug 357655)
• Gimp got a palette export script which allows exporting palettes to .css, .php, .py, .txt and .java by adding a Export to menu item in the palette context menu in the Palettes dockable . (GNOME bug 304399)
• Paolo Bacchilega imported his “ext” branch to gthumb, that refactors much of it into a system of extensions.
• In GNOME Shell Marina Zhurakhinskaya enabled hot corner for triggering the overview mode; to enter and leave the overview mode by just moving the mouse to the top left corner of the screen,
  and Owen Taylor added a desktop file, to allow making GNOME Shell the desktop default by adding it to the auto-start items
• Empathy was changed so dragndropping contacts will move them from group to group, instead of duplicating them in both groups . (GNOME bug 585443)
• David Zeuthen added a first usable version of the Create RAID Array dialog to GNOME Disk Utility.
• A new display-configuration branch has been created in gdm, to pursue GNOME bug 536355, to get back the ability to start and stop displays dynamically.
• Xan Lopez reimplemented a password viewer for Epiphany, that fetches the data from the GNOME keyring, which is where WebKit stores it . (GNOME bug 579217)
• In his Summer of Code project Guillaume Beland ported gnibbles to Clutter 1.0, fixed a collision bug and added some nice animations and effects.

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This week… 1954 commits, in 172 projects, by 279 happy hackers (and 293 were translation commits).

• Amitakhya Phukan added Assamese translations to a bunch of modules.
• Pierre Wieser rewrote much of the foundations of nautilus-actions, and ported to GtkBuilder along the way.
• Along the same line Felix Riemann removed the last bit of libglade from gnome-settings-daemon (GNOME bug 582502); Jaap Haitsma ported gnome-nettool (GNOME bug 580149), Christopher Taylor did gnome-screensaver (GNOME bug 463010), and Javier Jardón migrated the GTK+ wizard of Anjuta.
• A target to generate PDF files have been added to gtk-doc exposed targets.
• Several release team scripts, and jhbuild, have added support for SHA-256, to replace MD5 checksums with a better hashing algorithm.
• Thanks to Thibault Saunier, libgdata gained support for the Google Documents service (GNOME bug 587073); this is an important step in his Nautilus: Add support to Google docs for GNOME GSOC.
• Evolution got a rewrite of its calendar cache, backends will be migrating to it after some more testing.
• Working on GtkTreeView performances Benjamin Otte looked at Epiphany location bar and changed it to set a fixed width on its cell renderer.
• Murray Cumming published a toolpalette branch for GTK+, implementing a new tool palette container widget, with groups of toolbar items that can be shown as a grid of icons or a list of names (GNOME bug 567729).
• Also in GTK+ Michael Natterer added a bunch of API to access sealed flags or members, as they are necessary for applications to port applications to a GSEAL-enabled GTK+.
• Banshee added support for WebOS, used in the Palm Pre (GNOME bug 585112).
• Ray Strode ported the GDM greeter to PolicyKit 1.0, and made it so, that in case of duplicated names, it appends the username to differentiate the entries.
• After discussing the matter with designers at GUADEC, William Jon McCann patched libgnome to disable icons on menu items and buttons (GNOME bug 583352, GNOME bug 557469); guidelines on the proper usage of icons should now be published.

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This week… 1950 commits, in 167 projects, by 242 happy hackers (and 218 were translation commits).

• Banshee gained a “shuffle by album” option (GNOME bug 348582)
• Epiphany support for Python extensions has been removed, the supported language for extensions other than C/C++ is now JavaScript through Seed.
• Support for publishing geolocation information has been merged into Empathy (GNOME bug 571666)
• Milan Crha added a folder emblem to show new mail arrivals to Evolution (GNOME bug 323037); also Evolution dropped support for CDE (GNOME bug 582939).
• Support for the JPEG 2000 image format has been added to Gimp (GNOME bug 111409)
• GTK+ gained a new GtkInfoBar widget, similar to GeditMessageArea and similar widgets in Firefox. Its API is inspired by GtkDialog, with a content area and an action area. The message area uses symbolic colors for different background colors for warnings, errors, informational messages, etc . (GNOME bug 555344)
• Rhythmbox track change notification bubbles gained a “Skip” button (GNOME bug 331272)
• Shaun McCance created a new “mallard” branch for Yelp, to add support for the new Mallard document format.
• Christian Persch made a few HIG improvements to the NetworkManager connection editor (GNOME bug 584223)
• JHBuild GUI was rewritten to be totally awesome (and to not require libglade).
• PyBank, the bindings for GIRepository, got handling of structs as return values.
• Most importantly, Anjuta splash screen got rewritten from the obsolete libgnomecanvas to straight cairo (GNOME bug 571740).

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This week… 1881 commits, in 190 projects, by 250 happy hackers (and 279 were translation commits).

• DBus support has been added to gjs . (GNOME bug 580948).
• gnome-power-manager went back to use the original idletime code to fix backlight bugs, Richard Hughes explained in his commit that “The new IDLETIME code from gnome-session is very buggy, and the old code was much easier to understand. This should fix random DPMS off blanking and the fade-up-down-up on session resume.”
• In Empathy Pierre-Luc Beaudouin added support to display the locations of contacts on a map widget (provided by libchamplain ). (GNOME bug 571667)
• Vinagre gained a new “read-only” toggle button in its toolbar . (GNOME bug 583230)
• Johannes Schmid removed the remaining libglade bits from anjuta, that is now using GtkBuilder . (GNOME bug 530740)
• gdl, the GNOME Docking Library, removed its dependency on libgnome (GNOME bug 580860) and dropped libglade in favour of GtkBuilder (GNOME bug 582511).
• xchat-gnome got rid of the deprecated GTK+ symbols it was using (GNOME bug 572239).
• More than five years after it was first reported, thanks to the migration to WebKit, Epiphany will now set the Referer header when opening links in new tabs . (GNOME bug 120341)

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This week… 2205 commits, in 220 projects, by 230 happy hackers (and 267 were translation commits).

• Still in the aftermath of the Git migration, 189 commits were about DOAP files and JHBuild got his Git support quite improved.
• Empathy now displays the transfer speed in its file transfer dialog . (GNOME bug 580097)
• Meld has added support for SVK . (GNOME bug 416418)
• Epiphany was fixed to use GNOME settings for the default font sizes, instead of the WebKitGTK+ defaults.
• The libgnomeui dependency was removed from both the GStreamer Properties and the Media Profiles in gnome-media.
• Peter Bloomfield ported the Balsa mail client to use GMime 2.4.
• In evolution-data-server, Rob Branford ported libedata and libebook to D-Bus in the D-Bus branch, and Philip Withnall converted the Google calendar backend to use the external libgdata in the libgdata-port branch.
• David Zeuthen commited his GDBus work in a new gdbus branch of glib; and Dan Winship merged his GResolver (a glib-ish interface to DNS) branch into glib (and blogged about it ). (GNOME bug 548466)
• Nautilus now use g_timeout_add_seconds instead of g_timeout_add where appropriate (GNOME bug 574033); also Deprecated GTK+ symbols were removed . (GNOME bug 565038)
• Shaun McCance pushed his Mallard branch to the gnome-doc-utils repository.
• GNote, the Tomboy Gtkmm clone, got support for Add-ins . (GNOME bug 578980)

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This week… 1889 commits, in 207 projects, by 235 happy hackers (and 407 were translation commits).

• The Git migration happened, and 84 commits were about doap files, and 44 about .gitignore files.
• gnome-netstatus, empathy and gnome-dictionary (from gnome-utils , GNOME bug 577943) all switched to GtkBuilder.
• libgdata added support for ETags, to allow for versioning when querying, updating and deleting entries . (GNOME bug 578661)
• A new plugin has been added to eog, to order images randomly in slideshow mode . (GNOME bug 562135)
• Libchamplain got support for more advanced markers, allowing to set many properties on markers, allowing features such as attached image or text and how if should be displayed (wrapped, ellipsized, etc .). (GNOME bug 576055)
• Matthew Barnes updated gnome-video-arcade to make game play back work again with recent MAME releases.
• Sabayon was updated to use Xephyr instead of Xnest.
• Xan Lopez fixed backwards search in Epiphany Find Toolbar.
• Empathy got a new “join chatroom” dialog, which will only load the room list when the rooms are displayed.
• Seed imports system was changed to match the one in gjs, making it easier to port applications between them. Robert Carr posted details in some Seed updated.

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This week… 2594 commits, in 269 projects, by 223 happy hackers (and 993 were translation commits).

• 2.26 got released on Wednesday, and translators worked hard, a special mention for the Maithili and Assamese teams, that improved their percentages by near 20 points.
• An initial backend support for GDB Variable Objects landed in Nemiver.
• Philippe Rouquier started splitting brasero between backend and application.
• The Mini-Commander applet got support for https URL . (GNOME bug 575782)
• Cosimo Cecchi fixed nautilus to spawn its windows on the correct screen, instead of always using the default one . (GNOME bug 555078)
• Epiphany got support for translucent link-message statusbar, ‘Inspired’ from Chrome, will show the link-message in a translucent floating div on the bottom left corner of the web view if the normal statusbar is hidden.
• Cody Russel improved the GTK+ menu theming on Win32, using the new menu styling API, it makes GTK+ looks much better on Windows Vista . (GNOME bug 538840)
• Rhythmbox will now use the new GtkEntry API for the “clear” icon in its search entry, rather than libsexy’s SexyIconEntry; also GnomeHRef usage has been replaced with GtkLinkButton, that removes the libgnome dependency.
• Also the Rhythmbox Jamendo XML parser got rewritten to create database entries in a single pass, rather than creating an intermediate structure and converting that to database entries. This speeds up catalogue loading and reduces memory consumption . (GNOME bug 424423)
• Rygel got transcoding support, from any format (that GStreamer can handle) to
  mp3, LPCM and mpeg transport stream.
• In the Murrine GTK+ engine Andrea Cimitan removed shadows from comboboxentry’s button and welcomes any feedback on this.
• Finally two new modules in Subversion this week: Jordi Mas imported Mistelixa, a DVD authoring tool, and Krzesimir Nowak imported libvtemm, C++ bindings to libvte.

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