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… 1811 commits, in 183 projects, by 217 happy hackers (and 226 were translation commits).

• Evince was changed to output straight PDF for printers supporting PDF natively . (GNOME bug 585442)
• Evolution gained an inline view of application/mbox attachments . (GNOME bug 464131)
• A problem with RSA key size that were not a multiple of 8 has been fixed in gnome-keyring . (GNOME bug 576700)
• A new theme, Moblesse, has been added to the experimental GTK+ CSS theme engine.
• Milan Crha fixed several issues and improved the performance of the evolution-data-server CalDAV backend.
• Philippe Rouquier commited a new layout for the Brasero user interface: the medium selector is still inside the main window and on clicking burn a dialog appears to set the session burning options
• In both libgoffice and gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow improved Open Document Format support (number style output, scientific number output, time and date styles, import of currency symbols, and much more).
• F-Spot Adjust Time dialog, and gnome-session windows, have been ported from libglade to GtkBuilder.
• A Python binding for libbrasero-burn has been added to gnome-python-desktop.
• As explained in his Data about Data weblog post, Alexander Larsson added metadata support in gvfs, and already made Nautilus use it.
• Empathy has been updated to use gnome-session instead of gnome-screensaver to know when the session is idle.
• Benjamin Otte did some research on the GTK+ file chooser performance
  (explained in a tale of waiting message in the
  gtk-devel-list, be sure to also read the followup messages), and pushed a new “filesystemmodel” branch to publicize his work.

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This week… 2349 commits, in 189 projects, by 255 happy hackers (and 298 were translation commits).

• John Carr published his syncml branch of conduit, adding SyncML support for contacts and calendar items.
• Gnumeric got support for more styles in its ODF export (cell, paragraph and text styles).
• Niepce Digital got an initial UI shell and basic gphoto support.
• krb5-auth-dialog added a gconf key to disable its notifications.
• f-spot date range dialog got ported from libglade to gtkbuilder; rhythmbox also replaced libglade by gtkbuilder.
• The graph component in goffice gained support for formatted editing of graph limits that are dates and times . (GNOME bug 574681)
• Evolution search bar got improved, to more closely resemble Firefox . (GNOME bug 580925)
• Rhythmbox status icon has been made into a plugin, with additional capabilities, some aspects of the status icon and the notification popups are now a bit more configurable.
• Willie Walker continued his numerous improvements to the speech generator in Orca, porting Pidgin, Gecko and Thunderbird to the new generator.
• In gnome-utils gsearchtool got rid of its libgnomeui usage . (GNOME bug 573670)
• Brasero gained the possibility to span data across several media . (GNOME bug 438858)

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This week… 1470 commits, in 149 projects, by 183 happy hackers (and 126 were translation commits).

• Support for file transfer has been merged in Empathy; it is currently only available for Link-Local XMPP, support for Jabber should now be implemented in telepathy-gabble; Guillaume Desmottes posted about this.
• gnome-shell is progressing nicely and Owen Taylor gave a status update.
• f-spot moved from gnome-vfs to gio.
• Behdad Esfahbod continued his work on vte and its pangocairo backend, he also removed obsolete backends.
• Josselin Mouette merged Debian patches into esound, which prompted the release of 0.2.41.
• Rhythmbox can now deal with uninitialized iPods.
• Benjamin Otte improved the gvfs FTP backend to work with more FTP servers.
• evolution-mapi, a connector to Microsoft Exchange 2007, gained its own subversion module and has been proposed for 2.26.
• tracker got its indexer module API GObject oriented, this will allow easier bindings development and more flexible behaviour for modules.
• Glade gained a new editor for cell renderers.

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