• Banshee was migrated to the Last.fm 2.0 API . (GNOME bug 541227)
• A general search feature has been added to Rygel, including Tracker.
• The GtkNotebook widget got an “action area”, to be used for things like having a single close tab button to the right of all tabs. Johannes Schmid wrote about it in his weblog: GtkNotebook action widgets . (GNOME bug 116650)
• Totem gained an on-screen display when in fullscreen mode, Bastien Nocero announced it in A little OSD . (GNOME bug 600985)
• Simon van der Linden added the possibility to import wrappers from pygi to pygobject.
• The GNOME Shell got presence items added to the status menu . (GNOME bug 601458)
• Behdad Esfahbod reverted a commit to vte, as not clearing the alternate screen caused issues with less.
• Basic Mac OS X integration (menu, dock, bundle) has been pushed to gedit.
• Empathy was fixed to ask for password when joining a protected room (GNOME bug 579341)
• The View Properties dialog of Gnumeric was converted to be instant-apply.
• William Walker added provisional support for GNOME Shell magnifier service to Orca.

• 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.

¹: actually this commit count is wrong as the same branch is created and deleted several times, to get rebased, changing the commit identifiers along the way.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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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Project	Commits
vala	90
seed	85
ooo-build	56
gnome-scan	54
gnomemm	52
evolution	45
empathy	38
tracker	35
anjuta	33
rygel	33

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Jürg Billeter	91	vala, gtksourceview
Robert Carr	66	seed, gir-repository
Jorge Gonzalez Gonzalez	64	ekiga, gnome-media, evolution and others
Étienne Bersac	56	gnome-scan, gegl
Bastien Nocera	53	nautilus-cd-burner, totem, gnome-media and others
Matej Urbančič	45	vino, eog, libgweather and others
Xavier Claessens	37	empathy
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)	35	rygel, jhbuild
Murray Cumming	31	gnomemm, glom, libgda and others
Gabor Keleman	31	gimp, network-manager-openconnect, damned-lies and others

• 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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