GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 1612 commits, in 180 projects, by 213 happy hackers (and 293 were translation commits).

• 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.

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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… 2078 commits, in 184 projects, by 233 happy hackers (and 438 were translation commits).

• The new GtkFileSystemModel worked by Benjamin Otte and Federico Mena Quintero has been pushed to GTK+.
• Also in GTK+, a new GtkSpinner widget has been commited . (GNOME bug 319607)
• libsoup was changed to allow multiple pending connections to a server at once, as only allowing a single connection attempt at once really slows down pages with lots of subresources on servers that disallow persistent connections . (GNOME bug 594768)
• gdm has been converted from using gnome-power-manager to DeviceKit-power . (GNOME bug 596569)
• Jason Clinton pushed the Clutter rewrite of the Nibbles game, done by Guillaume Beland during his summer of code.
• Vinagre has been updated to keep the aspect ratio when using scaling mode . (GNOME bug 593192)
• Jason Childs added support for transparent objects in dia, by adding alpha to the Color structure . (GNOME bug 591525)
• Devhelp has been modified to look for an existing local copy of documents referred by their library.gnome.org location . (GNOME bug 598598)
• xml2po has been fixed to work with parallel builds . (GNOME bug 593175)
• Balsa, Gimp and goffice were all ported to compile fine with GSEAL enabled.

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This week… 1940 commits, in 179 projects, by 246 happy hackers (and 367 were translation commits).

• Nautilus gained a “copy anyway” option in the error dialog it displays when there is not enough space on the destination . (GNOME bug 324361)
• Richard Hugues probably added Super Cow Powers to gnome-packagekit, carefully hiding this fact in 50 commits with “Moo”, or a slight variation, as commit message.
• Ryan Lortie merged the various dconf* utilities in a single “dconf” tool, also he added API documentation.
• The gtk-2.90 branch was created and saw the removal of many deprecated widgets and functions.
• Devhelp got a new fullscreen mode, mostly thanks to code from gedit.
• In Evolution Matthew Barnes finally got pane size restoration to play nicely with maximised windows . (GNOME bug 593612)
• gok has been migrated to use GtkBuilder instead of libglade . (GNOME bug 582504)
• gvfs has been fixed to display the overwrite dialog when restoring already existing files from trash . (GNOME bug 596618)
• Rhythmbox has been ported to use gnome-session for inhibition support, inhibiting the session to go idle (thus preventing gnome-power-manager from suspending the computer due to inactivity ). (GNOME bug 596573)
• Marina Zhurakhinskaya extented GNOME Shell application search to match on menu categories . (GNOME bug 597153)

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This week… 2610 commits, in 209 projects, by 286 happy hackers (and 539 were translation commits).

• The Perl bindings written by Emmanuel Rodriguez have been merged into libchamplain.
• A branch by Alexander Sack reworking NetworkManager menu has been uploaded (it is named “menu-rework”).
• Mark Kasik added support for the ‘auth-info’ attribute to the CUPS print backend of GTK + (GNOME bug 566522).
• Deprecated GTK+ symbols have been removed from gok (GNOME bug 572686).
• Ryan Lortie published a gsettings branch of Devhelp, demonstrating the conversion from GConf to GSettings.
• GNOME Shell has been updated to not treat 1024×600 as widescreen (GNOME bug 596375).
• The GNOME Volume Control has been changed to allow going up to 150% for output volume (GNOME bug 591285).
• Brasero has been fixed to not leak the CD drive device file descriptor, that kept the drive locked . (GNOME bug 596241)
• Evolution has been changed to use Message-ID instead of Message-Id, for increased compatibility with other applications (GNOME bug 596157).
• Ross Burton switched evolution-data-server calendar to D-Bus instead of Bonobo, in the “dbus-calendar” branch.

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This week… 1813 commits, in 179 projects, by 261 happy hackers (and 401 were translation commits).

• Totem has been updated to use its new logo in both the browser plugin and main player (GNOME bug 480200), and to display embedded cover images in audio streams (GNOME bug 581249).
• Marek Kašík added SVG support to GtkPrintBackendFile, this allows printing to SVG 1.2 files. (GNIME bug 357655)
• Gimp got a palette export script which allows exporting palettes to .css, .php, .py, .txt and .java by adding a Export to menu item in the palette context menu in the Palettes dockable . (GNOME bug 304399)
• Paolo Bacchilega imported his “ext” branch to gthumb, that refactors much of it into a system of extensions.
• In GNOME Shell Marina Zhurakhinskaya enabled hot corner for triggering the overview mode; to enter and leave the overview mode by just moving the mouse to the top left corner of the screen,
  and Owen Taylor added a desktop file, to allow making GNOME Shell the desktop default by adding it to the auto-start items
• Empathy was changed so dragndropping contacts will move them from group to group, instead of duplicating them in both groups . (GNOME bug 585443)
• David Zeuthen added a first usable version of the Create RAID Array dialog to GNOME Disk Utility.
• A new display-configuration branch has been created in gdm, to pursue GNOME bug 536355, to get back the ability to start and stop displays dynamically.
• Xan Lopez reimplemented a password viewer for Epiphany, that fetches the data from the GNOME keyring, which is where WebKit stores it . (GNOME bug 579217)
• In his Summer of Code project Guillaume Beland ported gnibbles to Clutter 1.0, fixed a collision bug and added some nice animations and effects.

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This week… 1954 commits, in 172 projects, by 279 happy hackers (and 293 were translation commits).

• Amitakhya Phukan added Assamese translations to a bunch of modules.
• Pierre Wieser rewrote much of the foundations of nautilus-actions, and ported to GtkBuilder along the way.
• Along the same line Felix Riemann removed the last bit of libglade from gnome-settings-daemon (GNOME bug 582502); Jaap Haitsma ported gnome-nettool (GNOME bug 580149), Christopher Taylor did gnome-screensaver (GNOME bug 463010), and Javier Jardón migrated the GTK+ wizard of Anjuta.
• A target to generate PDF files have been added to gtk-doc exposed targets.
• Several release team scripts, and jhbuild, have added support for SHA-256, to replace MD5 checksums with a better hashing algorithm.
• Thanks to Thibault Saunier, libgdata gained support for the Google Documents service (GNOME bug 587073); this is an important step in his Nautilus: Add support to Google docs for GNOME GSOC.
• Evolution got a rewrite of its calendar cache, backends will be migrating to it after some more testing.
• Working on GtkTreeView performances Benjamin Otte looked at Epiphany location bar and changed it to set a fixed width on its cell renderer.
• Murray Cumming published a toolpalette branch for GTK+, implementing a new tool palette container widget, with groups of toolbar items that can be shown as a grid of icons or a list of names (GNOME bug 567729).
• Also in GTK+ Michael Natterer added a bunch of API to access sealed flags or members, as they are necessary for applications to port applications to a GSEAL-enabled GTK+.
• Banshee added support for WebOS, used in the Palm Pre (GNOME bug 585112).
• Ray Strode ported the GDM greeter to PolicyKit 1.0, and made it so, that in case of duplicated names, it appends the username to differentiate the entries.
• After discussing the matter with designers at GUADEC, William Jon McCann patched libgnome to disable icons on menu items and buttons (GNOME bug 583352, GNOME bug 557469); guidelines on the proper usage of icons should now be published.

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This week… 1769 commits, in 177 projects, by 216 happy hackers (and 351 were translation commits).

• Seahorse, and many preferences windows from the control center migrated from libglade to GtkBuilder.
• gtk-doc has been updated to also look for dblatex for PDF generation, as it seems to work much better than using fop.
• Cody Russel published a new “client-side-decorations” branch for GTK+.
• Jorge Pereira added a system of plugins to vinagre, based on the gedit one.
• Brasero saw the last bits and pieces of HAL support removed, it will only rely on gio from now . (GNOME bug 581742)
• Gnome Power Manager was updated to port all the code to using PolicyKit1 rather than PolicyKit.

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This week… 1811 commits, in 184 projects, by 224 happy hackers (and 268 were translation commits).

• The Client Side Windows branch has been merged into GTK+, Alexander Larsson posted a status update on gtk-devel-list . (GNOME bug 318807)
• Cheese dropped its copy of GEditMessageArea in favour of the new GtkInfoBar that was introduced in 2.17.2 . (GNOME bug 586545)
• When there’s a DVD menu showing in Totem, it’s now possible to use the arrow keys to navigate around, and the Enter key to select (GNOME bug 580351).
• Snowy (the Tomboy companion web service) added OAuth endpoints, and the requirement for OAuth for accessing api/* URLs.
• Richard Hughes removed the HAL dependency of gnome-power-manager, making everything going through DeviceKit; he blogged it as HALectomy of gnome-power-manager complete.
• Gustavo Noronha Silva merged his content sniffing work in libsoup, the implementation is based on the draft spec on Content-Type Processing Model. Soup now provides a SoupContentSniffer session feature, which hooks into the message I/O, and delays emissions of the got-chunk signal to be able to figure out the Content-Type of messages from the actual content received, in some cases. GIO is also used to sniff content, whenever the spec allows further sniffing .(GNOME bug 572589)

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This week… 1811 commits, in 183 projects, by 217 happy hackers (and 226 were translation commits).

• 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.

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