Issue 168

December 25, 2011

This week… 1842 commits, in 176 projects, by 213 happy hackers (and 233 were translation commits).

  • Kai Willadsen changed meld to draw the currently displayed page area in the DiffMap . (GNOME bug 470729)
  • In Eog Felix Riemann made EXIF/XMP summaries available as a sidebar . (GNOME bug 616438)
  • Xavier Claessens added Windows Live oauth2 support to gnome-online-accounts . (GNOME bug 661067)
  • Claudio Saavedra combined the Reload and Stop toolbar buttons of Epiphany into a single one . (GNOME bug 657655)
  • Cosimo Cecchi did work on gnome-documents new application menu.
  • In Evolution Milan Crha made it possible to decrypt GPG mails with anonymous recipient set . (GNOME bug 331361)
  • Jonathan Matthew added extdb, a database for storing external metadata (e.g. album art images), to Rhythmbox.
  • Stef Walter added system prompt and prompter to gcr.
  • Giovanni Campagna reintroduced Wanda The Fish into gnome-shell.
  • Jeffrey Stedfast fixed gmime with regards to multibyte sequences split between two rfc2047 tokens.
  • Yasumichi Akahoshi changed Zenity documentation to use Mallard, and did new and updated screenshots to go along.
  • In Banshee Bertrand Lorentz added a button to go back to the list of audiobooks . (GNOME bug 656439)

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Issue 155

September 25, 2011

This week… 3245 commits, in 236 projects, by 313 happy hackers (and 1194 were translation commits).

  • With the 3.2 release approaching, this is the high peak of contribution by all translators; hat tip to them.
  • In gegl-gtk, Jon Nordby added some public API to create and manage GeglGtkView objects.
  • Bastien Nocera added the required bits for gnome-desktop to get vendor names from PNP IDs . (GNOME bug 659358)
  • Cosimo Cecchi added proper theming to radio and check menu items.
  • Emmanuele Bassi implemented a password hint in ClutterText widgets, to give them the ability to show the last input character. This feature allows easier password entry on platforms with unreliable keyboards, such as touchscreens or small devices . (GNOME bug 652588)
  • Lapo Calamandrei added symbolic icons for input-touchpad, touchpad-disabled and keyboard-brightness.
  • Eugen Dedu added a summary page at the end of ekiga configuration assistant.
  • Jasper St. Pierre made sweettooth error reporting part into its own django application.
  • Audrey Mandet added a waves operator, ported from the legagy gimp plugin, to gegl.
  • In libgda Vivien Malerba made an initial implementation of a GdaDataPivot implementation.
  • Baptiste Mille-Mathias fixed gnome-online-accounts to take proxy settings into account . (GNOME bug 658444)
  • Stef Walter changed seahorse-sharing so that it reconnects to avahi if it restarts.
  • A setting for defining a login screen logo has been added to gdm by Ray Strode.
  • Bastien Nocera added a “stand-by” page to the wacom control center panel, to be used when no tablet is available . (GNOME bug 657424)
  • Mike Gorse fixed accessibility of Nautilus icon canvas widget . (GNOME bug 650897)

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Issue 142

June 26, 2011

This week… 1645 commits, in 151 projects, by 203 happy hackers (and 270 were translation commits).

  • Tom Callaway ported Emerillon to GTK+ 3 . (GNOME bug 649403)
  • Richard Hughes added methods to control the backlight on each output in libgnome-desktop, to be used by the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin.
  • Jon Nordby added introspection support to gegl-gtk.
  • In Caribou Eitan Isaacson converted layout files to XML and made use of XSLT to make keyboard definitions easier.
  • Bastien Nocera added the Chat account type to gnome-online-accounts and implemented it in the Google backend.
  • Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse contributed a patch to libgtop to make CPU load retrieval work on OpenBSD.
  • Alexander Larsson had some initial work done on an edit mode for gnome-contacts.
  • A prototype of integration with the GNOME Online Accounts service has been added to Evolution by Matthew Barnes.
  • Claudio Saavedra replaced the custom dbus-glib activation and uniqueness code of Epiphany by the use of GtkApplication.
  • In gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow improved import/export of repeating rows from/to ODF files.
  • Kevin Kofler contributed support for looking up Plasma services in GNOME PackageKit.
  • Ray Strode made the gdm daemon use gnome-session session files instead of autostart.

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Issue 137

May 22, 2011

This week… 1811 commits, in 154 projects, by 213 happy hackers (and 166 were translation commits).

  • Lapo Calamandrei reworked all window related icons, notably improving the “window new” icon (GNOME bug 650712)
  • John Stowers started working on introspection support for goocanvas.
  • In GNOME Color Manager Richard Hughes added functionality to show optional notifications when a color profile is out of calibration.
  • The colour preferences panel based has been reworked based on feedback from the designers and incorported into gnome-control-center.
  • In gthumb Paolo Bacchilega added the ability to rotate a picture dragging the image.
  • Alexander Larsson added presence icons to chat details in gnome-contacts.
  • Mutter got support for style variants, so that colors from the GTK+ style are picked from the correct theme variant . (GNOME bug 645355)
  • Will Thompson added a /whois command to Empathy . (GNOME bug 571631)
  • Shaun McCance added epub build code to Yelp, and worked on the video javascript and CSS in yelp-xsl.
  • Initial work on a gnome-online-accounts client has been started by David Zeuthen in the goa-client branch of gnome-shell.
  • Stef Walter added support for listing secret gnupg keys in gnome-keyring.
  • Matthias Clasen pushed a prototype of a initial-setup application into the wip/initial-setup branch of gdm.

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