GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 2529 commits, in 212 projects, by 272 happy hackers (and 838 were translation commits).

• We are approaching the 2.28.0 release and with freezes in place translators are now the heavy contributors, highlights of this week are the Serbian and Catalan teams, increasing their completion status by over five percents, and the Portuguese and Spanish teams, achieving 100% translated strings for the UI.
• A new “Auto DJ” feature has been contributed to Banshee, it will add new randomly selected tracks to the play queue when it gets empty (GNOME bug 565767)
• Kupfer, a simple launcher in the style of Gnome Do, added a new Calculator plugin and a new “Rename To…” action.
• Vincent Untz updated gnome-menus and gnome-panel to work with the new X-GNOME-FullName .desktop key.
• Rygel added support for publishing thumbnails of media items . (GNOME bug 590702)
• Alexander Larsson did some GObject performance work (in the glib gobject-performance branch), improving the speed of instance creation for classes that do not have properties, and the interface lookup algorithm.
• Brasero got a new “introspection” branch where support for gobject introspection is developed.
• The display order of files in Eye of GNOME, that was broken for some locales, has been fixed by Felix Riemann . (GNOME bug 594403)
• The adblock Epiphany extension has been updated to work with Epiphany/webkit, Xan Lopez blogged this and other Epiphany features . (GNOME bug 562762)

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This week… 2565 commits, in 231 projects, by 273 happy hackers (and 652 were translation commits).

• Andoni Morales imported longomatch, a sports video analysis tool for coaches and sports scientists using Mono and GStreamer, into git.gnome.org.
• Empathy gained optional support for connman (as used in Moblin) to manage its connectivity status. Sjoerd Simons also pushed his branch porting Empathy to Mission Control 5, which improves the foundations of Empathy and makes integrating Telepathy with the desktop more practical.
• Zhang Sen finished his Summer of Code pushing a new collaborative mode to his sudoku over telepathy tubes.
• The Evolution Exchange autoconfig wizard has been ported to GtkAssistant, evolution-exchange is now libgnome(ui) free . (GNOME bug 580904)
• The “About Me” configuration window was ported to PolicyKit 1.0, to be honest this amounted to removing all traces of PolicyKit from the application.
• Orca got special casing for the no break space character since some synthesizers cannot handle them . (GNOME bug 591734)
• Daniel Elstner continued his work, cleaning the build process of many C++ bindings, and converted the examples in the gtkmm documentation to non-recursive build.
• Brian Cameron improved the documentation for a11y configuration of gdm . (GNOME bug 141378)
• In the Panel Vincent Untz fixed several issues related to multi monitor use cases.

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This week… 2799 commits, in 207 projects, by 314 happy hackers (and 707 were translation commits).

• Nautilus has been changed to inhibit gnome-power-manager when copying files (GNOME bug 334806).
• Simon van der Linden landed much of his summer of code work on pybank (using gobject-introspection to create dynamic Python bindings to gobject libraries) in the gsco2009 branch.
• GConf has removed its libgnome dependency (which was casued by a test client ) (GNOME bug 586435), and was ported to the PolicyKit 1.0 API (GNOME bug 585303).
• Benjamin Otte ported byzanz (screencast tool) from gnome-vfs to gio, and from gdk to cairo.
• Thanks to a change in libgweather it is now possible to add an UTC time entry to the clock applet . (GNOME bug 541145)
• Jean Bréfort added a new cairo-based canvas to goffice, to be used in Gnumeric, to replace foocanvas.
• Every little part of gnome-panel has been ported to GtkBuilder.
• The gvfs gphoto2 backend and monitor were ported to gudev.
• Most of the C++ bindings were transitioned to a new build infrastructure, using the new mm-common module.
• In Yelp Shaun McCance added the possibility for ghelp: URIs to reference Mallard documents.
• And an all-new Mallard documentation, mostly written by Milo Casagrande and Phil Bull, has been merged into Empathy.
• Dan Winship ported SoupAddress to use GResolver, new in the latest GLib.
• Finally Matthew Barnes added support for “Fifth Sunday *of the month*” to Evolution (in his kill-bonobo branch) (and it also works for other weekdays !) (GNOME bug 328361).

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This week… 2257 commits, in 200 projects, by 207 happy hackers (and 665 were translation commits).

• Again the translation teams do great in the commits top 10, taking five places; the teams are Basque, Swedish, Romanian, Danish and Finnish (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio, Daniel Nylander, Jani Monoses and Ilkka Tuohela).
• gtk-doc got the possibility to link to struct members . (GNOME bug 565126)
• The deskbar-applet bookmark search will also look at epiphany topics . (GNOME bug 572291)
• In glib Alexander Larsson modified g_content_type_guess to never sniff desktop files when the filename is known. In other words, only allow desktop files with the .desktop extension and when the filename isn’t known. This is a security precaution since desktop files can execute arbitrary code when launched and we don’t want to allow them to try and hide as another type. There is no legit reason to not have the .desktop extension anyway. (the .desktop issue is also being discussed in desktop-devel-list)
• Tracker got support for IPTC metadata in jpeg and tiff files.
• Sven Neumann gave some love to the GTK+ directfb support, applying some patches, fixing some issues.
• Epiphany has a new option to open new windows in tabs (only available as a gconf key for now ). (GNOME bug 571593)
• Christian Persch killed the custom OBox widget from gnome-panel as GtkBox now supports changing the orientation.
• The balance bar in the new volume control will now instant-apply . (GNOME bug 566423)
• Metacity got totally rid of metacity-dialog, and will now use zenity to present dialogs . (GNOME bug 521914)
• Vinagre got updated to allow IPv6 address on the command line and in the connection dialog.
• Rygel is getting ready for a new release, several changes here, notably the response for seekable media request is now sent buffer by buffer so the whole file is not put into memory.
• And finally, a pythonconsole plugin, based on the gedit plugin, landed in eog.

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This week… 1650 commits, in 173 projects, by 193 happy hackers (and 306 were translation commits).

• The panel got lockdown support to prevent it being dragged to a different screen edge . (GNOME bug 309721).
• Alacarte was ported to gio . (GNOME bug 514574)
• Jonh Wendell rewrote the vinagre applet, to use GObject, fixing the way it works on transparent panels in the process (GNOME bug 568674); he also commited a rewritten Vino Preferences dialog, with the ability to check if the machine can be accessed though the Internet.
• Seed got opengl-glib girs and a glxgears port.
• In Nautilus, gnome-desktop and gnome-settings-daemon, patches from Ray Strode landed, adding support for fading between backgrounds.
• Anjuta got upgraded to use GtkPrint, removing its dependency on libgnomeprint/ui . (GNOME bug 564659)
• Patches by Tomeu Vizoso were commited to evince to move code to a libeviview library, so it can be embedded in other applications, Tomeu blogged about it . (GNOME bug 567751)
• John Stowers came back on conduit, applying patches and fixing many bugs.
• In Epiphany Gustavo Noronha added multiple keyword-based AND-search for the location bar.
• GTK+ got support for select-by-word in selectable labels, marks on GtkScale, and improved autocompletion in the file chooser entry.

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This week… 1123 commits, in 144 projects, by 154 happy hackers (and 120 were translation commits).

• Ted Gould posted about gtk_timeout_add_seconds and a few modules (anjuta, ekiga, totem, libbonobo, libegg, brasero) already got fixes.
• Niepce Digital got imported in subversion repository.
• Xan Lopez added support for the WebKit web inspector in Epiphany (and Robert Carr did the same thing for seed minibrowser).
• Vincent Untz got back hacking on gnome-panel, removal of libgnomeui and deprecated API usage, single include, bug fixes and stuff.
• vino added correct support for IPv4 mapped IPv6, and added a new feature to able to set the network interface to listen on (GNOME bug 403183).
• gvfs got a new trash backend written by Ryan Lortie.
• Nautilus gained the possibility to call PackageKit to install applications for for unsupported mime types.
• German Poo-Caamano gave some love to gnome-nettool (portability fixes, better accessibility support, and other fixes and enhancements).
• gtkhtml got improved smileys (toolbar to insert them, obedience to the icon naming specification; screenshots are available in GNOME bug 563841.
• Also, Przemysław Grzegorczyk wrote a lot of patches to clean up GLib and GTK+ includes, see GNOME bug 563413. This earned him a Subversion account.

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