GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 1906 commits, in 181 projects, by 237 happy hackers (and 363 were translation commits).

• 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.

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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… 1171 commits, in 146 projects, by 141 happy hackers (and 236 were translation commits).

• gedit got an internal message bus to let its plugins communicate.
• Epiphany updated from its own EphySearchEntry and EphyIconEntry to GtkEntry, it also uses the new “progress in entry” support to draw progress in the location bar.
• gconftool got a new –toggle option, to toggle a boolean key.
• gossip removed libgnomeui and libgnomevfs, and started to use libcanberra-gtk for sound support.
• Jonathan Matthew added some basic window management effects to gnome-shell . (GNOME bug 563844)
• A new version of l10n.gnome.org (damned-lies) went live, merging in the Vertimus translation tool that was already used by some teams. (announce).
• A low diskspace checker has been added to the housekeeping plugin of gnome-settings-daemon . (GNOME bug 557647)
• gnome-build that was a standalone module but only used by anjuta has been merged in anjuta.
• GtkEntry Caps Lock warning mode switched to using an icon.
• seed got a 0.3 (and 0.3.1) release and Robert Carr sent a summary of what happened since 0.1.

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This week… 1540 commits, in 182 projects, by 162 happy hackers (and 229 were translation commits).

• Most important, ORBit2 stopped calling g_thread_init() to accomodate the sensitiveness of Microsoft Windows and will display a warning if it was not previously called, this will need changes in a lot of places . (GNOME bug 547885)
• Jürg Billeter fixed lots of bugs in vala, applied patches, and generally enhanced things (notably the D-Bus server was rewritten to directly use libdbus, without dbus-glib marshalling) and released 0.5.3.
• Vala-related, Stefan Walter removed last vala traces from seahorse.
• The libgnomeui dependency was removed from the brightness and inhibit applets, NetworkManager OpenVPN and PPTP support, and libgnome usage was removed from the dictionary applet.
• Alexander Larsson merged eel into nautilus and eel usage was consequently removed from nautilus-cd-burner and brasero.
• Empathy got autocompletion of contact names in its “new message” dialog box . (GNOME bug 552296)
• Patrick Welche updated Dasher from gnome-vfs to gvfs.
• g_timeout_add_seconds replaced g_timeout_add in several new places: in nautilus-sendto, gnome-power-manager, gedit, gnome-games, seahorse.
• The AAC profile, as defined in gnome-media, and used by applications such as Sound Juicer and gnome-sound-recoreder, switched to LC-AAC profile . (GNOME bug 498617)

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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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