• 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.

• Michael Natterer added support for layer trees in Gimp, the UI still needs to be improved but there is now a Folder button in the layers dialog . (GNOME bug 86337)
• Totem browser plugin now overrides the HTTP user-agents for Quicktime and Windows Media Player, this fixes playback of the Apple trailers . (GNOME bug 375867)
• David Zeuthen started a “new-ui” branch to rework the UI of libgdu-gtk and palimpset.
• Brasero has been fixed to not use readcd (-clone) to copy audio CD, as it doesn’t keep CD-TEXT . (GNOME bug 580813)
• Epiphany gained back its “view source” command . (GNOME bug 503968)
• A new g_mkstemp_full() function has been added to glib, to expose more parameters than g_mkstemp(), allowing more flexibility when creating temporary files . (GNOME bug 594034)
• In Gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow added handling of ODF import/export of surface plots originally created in Excel . (GNOME bug 594041)
• Matthew Barnes updated the “mailing-list-actions”, “save-calendar” and “publish-calendar” evolution plugins to the bonobo-liberated Evolution.
• On the same topic Lucian Langa started porting evolution-rss for the new Evolution.

• In gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen landed the new ATA SMART user interface.
• Rhythmbox gained support for downloading cover art from discogs.com and MusicBrainz (GNOME bug 410684).
• The libchamplain map widget gained support for keyboard shortcuts, to navigate and zoom the map . (GNOME bug 582872)
• Ekiga switched to boost for both smart pointers and signals (GNOME bug 575005)
• The “kill-bonobo” branch of Evolution is now the “master” git branch, this marked 45 old bugs as fixed.
• gconf-editor has been ported to PolicyKit 1.0 . (GNOME bug 585596)
• A shutter sound will now be played when taking a screenshot (GNOME bug 592372).
• Gnome Shell improved the way it displays search results, it now has bigger fonts and brighter colour for the headings, and more padding.
• Daniel Elstner worked on the C++ bindings so they could get their API references published on library.gnome.org.
• Jean Bréfort moved gnumeric to use GooCanvas instead of FooCanvas.
• Finally devhelp has been ported to make use of libunique.

• Evince was changed to output straight PDF for printers supporting PDF natively . (GNOME bug 585442)
• Evolution gained an inline view of application/mbox attachments . (GNOME bug 464131)
• A problem with RSA key size that were not a multiple of 8 has been fixed in gnome-keyring . (GNOME bug 576700)
• A new theme, Moblesse, has been added to the experimental GTK+ CSS theme engine.
• Milan Crha fixed several issues and improved the performance of the evolution-data-server CalDAV backend.
• Philippe Rouquier commited a new layout for the Brasero user interface: the medium selector is still inside the main window and on clicking burn a dialog appears to set the session burning options
• In both libgoffice and gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow improved Open Document Format support (number style output, scientific number output, time and date styles, import of currency symbols, and much more).
• F-Spot Adjust Time dialog, and gnome-session windows, have been ported from libglade to GtkBuilder.
• A Python binding for libbrasero-burn has been added to gnome-python-desktop.
• As explained in his Data about Data weblog post, Alexander Larsson added metadata support in gvfs, and already made Nautilus use it.
• Empathy has been updated to use gnome-session instead of gnome-screensaver to know when the session is idle.
• Benjamin Otte did some research on the GTK+ file chooser performance
  (explained in a tale of waiting message in the
  gtk-devel-list, be sure to also read the followup messages), and pushed a new “filesystemmodel” branch to publicize his work.

• John Carr published his syncml branch of conduit, adding SyncML support for contacts and calendar items.
• Gnumeric got support for more styles in its ODF export (cell, paragraph and text styles).
• Niepce Digital got an initial UI shell and basic gphoto support.
• krb5-auth-dialog added a gconf key to disable its notifications.
• f-spot date range dialog got ported from libglade to gtkbuilder; rhythmbox also replaced libglade by gtkbuilder.
• The graph component in goffice gained support for formatted editing of graph limits that are dates and times . (GNOME bug 574681)
• Evolution search bar got improved, to more closely resemble Firefox . (GNOME bug 580925)
• Rhythmbox status icon has been made into a plugin, with additional capabilities, some aspects of the status icon and the notification popups are now a bit more configurable.
• Willie Walker continued his numerous improvements to the speech generator in Orca, porting Pidgin, Gecko and Thunderbird to the new generator.
• In gnome-utils gsearchtool got rid of its libgnomeui usage . (GNOME bug 573670)
• Brasero gained the possibility to span data across several media . (GNOME bug 438858)

• The App monitoring module landed in gnome-shell, it will be used to provide things like “Recent Apps” ;. (GNOME bug 570899).
• The Evolution external editor plugin has been updated to behave like the kmail equivalent, the normal evolution mail composer is now displayed, and the external editor starts whenever the user types something in the body . (GNOME bug 567145)
• Jody Goldberg improved Gnumeric xlsx format parsing, adding basic support for external references.
• Yelp can now display simple text files . (GNOME bug 565502)
• Passepartout, the revived desktop publishing application, got its internationalisation support completed, making all the diealogs properly translatable.
• Tomboy printing support was rewritten to 1) wrap very long lines and 2) partially render paragraphs at the end of pages.
• Empathy gained a menu entry to display its file transfer manager . (GNOME bug 574626)
• Rhythmbox got support to read cover art embedded in media files (for local files only ). (GNOME bug 345975)
• The GNOME sound recorder saw its libgnome/libgnomeui dependency removed . (GNOME bug 567310)
• Davyd Madeley rebased David Zeuthen resolution independance private git-svn branch against the real GTK+ repository, and published it into a new “resolution-independence” branch.
• Finally, deprecated GTK+ symbols were removed from a bunch of modules: vino, gnome-system-tools, gok and gnome-media/grecord.

• 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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