GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 1781 commits, in 178 projects, by 250 happy hackers (and 298 were translation commits).

• 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.

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This week… 2062 commits, in 182 projects, by 247 happy hackers (and 281 were translation commits).

• In the “content-sniffing” branch, Gustavo Noronha Silva started to implement content sniffing in libsoup, including the HTML5 algorithm that sniffs content served as “text/plain” by web servers.
• Hubert Figuiere fixed a bug when printing date/tome values with 0 micro-second, making gnote timestamps compatible with tomboy . (GNOME bug 581844)
• File Roller gained support for lzip and xz compression formats (GNOME bug 579467, GNOME bug 582237).
• The “Palimpset” Disk Utility now uses the new GtkInfoBar to show job progress, there are two screenshots available ((1) and (2)).
• Stefan Walter started working on a DBus API to gnome-keyring secrets, it is currently developed in the “dbus-api” branch.
• Shaun McCance merged Mallard support into both Yelp and gnome-doc-utils.
• GTK+ gained support for special icons for XDG user dirs, this will allow themes to provide different icons for the Documents, Downloads, Music… folders . (GNOME bug 541276)
• Paul Cutler applied a serie of patches to GNOME User Docs (both User Guide and Accessibility Guide), fixing typos and updating them to match the current desktop reality.
• Rhythmbox command line control program (rhythmbox-client) got support for song rating . (GNOME bug 583108)
• Support for touchpad parameters has been added to gnome-settings-daemon (GNOME bug 578444), it still needs a matching patch to be applied in the control center to have a new Touchpad tab in the Mouse Preferences (GNOME bug 154029)

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This week… 1743 commits, in 187 projects, by 195 happy hackers (and 381 were translation commits).

• Alexander Larsson is still working on client side windows in GTK+ and posted a status update.
• A new API to draw routes and lines has been commited to libchamplain . (GNOME bug 572377) (example)
• file-roller has been updated to use new GtkEntry icon support, instead of SexyIconEntry . (GNOME bug 584810)
• gthumb changed from libgphoto to the gphoto gvfs backend . (GNOME bug 583796)
• The gnio rewrite of gvfs FTP support made it so idn/punycode is now supported . (GNOME bug 567871)
• libgnomekbd switched to use single GTK+ includes . (GNOME bug 563629)
• The Hamster applet got the possibility to export reports to CSV . (GNOME bug 549604)
• Support for Adium themes (using WebKit) has been merged in Empathy. Various themes were already tested, and they are listed, with known issues on awiki page (GNOME bug 522069)
• Banshee gained a weighted random mode, to play highest rated songs more often . (GNOME bug 544680)
• Telepathy “tubes” support landed in vino, allowing to share the desktop with Empathy contacts . (GNOME bug 584840)
• Many of the patches Milan Bouchet-Valat created with regards to GTK+ file chooser issues were finally applied.

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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… 1992 commits, in 182 projects, by 186 happy hackers (and 349 were translation commits).

• Lucas Rocha set his eyes on gnome-session, and started fixing bugs introduced in the 2.24 rewrite.
• A library, libbrasero-media, got extracted out of brasero, Philippe Rouquier tells more about it on desktop-devel-list.
• Lightsoff, which was started as an example shipped in the Seed module, has been imported in gnome-games.
• File Roller and Eye of GNOME removed their dependencies and libgnome and libgnomeui; and Anjuta removed its dependency on gnomevfs.
• GVFS got its SMB browsing authentication support much improved (GNOME bug 524485).
• Cosimo Cecchi added sound events support in Empathy (via libcanberra).
• In gnome-keyring-daemon, the new modular SSH agent has been integrated as the main SSH agent.
• Ignacio Casal Quinteiro added a new fullscreen mode to gedit, with a sliding toolbar . (GNOME bug 520749)
• A new plugin was added to nautilus-sendto, to send files over IM via Empathy.

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This week… 1476 commits, in 165 projects, by 160 happy hackers (and 155 were translation commits).

• There were lots of 2.24.2 tagging, with 2.24.2 released on Wednesday.
• Many modules completed the “Cleaning up GTK Includes” goal (file-roller, system-monitor, gnome-session, fast-user-switch-applet, libgweather, gnome-nettool and gnome-netstatus).
• Another goal is about removing deprecated GTK+ symbols, gdm, system-monitor and gnome-netstatus completed it.
• gedit merged plugin system changes from its “new_plugin” branch; this includes a new python plugin loader, references to Python have been removed from gedit core.
• Christian Persh continued cleaning gnome-terminal and added a runtime debugging framework.
• Ron McOuat patch to add support for basic and digest authentication in souphttpstr (in GStreamer) got applied.
• Diego Escalante Urrelo gave some attention to gnome-netstatus, cleaning it up (including the removal of the libgnomeui dependency) and applying some long-waiting patches (most notable being the consideration of Fitt’s law).
• Aisleriot gained a new game, Queen of Italy (aka Terrace)
• Lutz Mueller and Morten Welinder made it possible to drag a sheet from gnumeric to gedit (or any other text program).
• Finally Evolution CalDAV support gained support for VTODO and VJOURNAL resources

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