GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 2027 commits, in 180 projects, by 252 happy hackers (and 403 were translation commits).

• Totem got (on-disk) buffering support for downloads, Bastien Nocera blogged about it: No more stuttering.
• The gvfs webdav backend has been changed to remember cookies while it’s running.
• Carlos Garnocho made the SPARQL API of Tracker fully asynchronous.
• Postr (the GNOME Flickr Uploader) has been improved to allow direct editing of title and description, when double clicking (or pressing the Return key) on the photo . (GNOME bug 562162)
• Xavier Claessens added support for some IRC slash commands to Empathy, the currently supported commands are /clear, /topic, /join, /query and /msg . (GNOME bug 573407)
• Also in Empathy Guillaume Desmottes added the display of an error message when codec negotation fails . (GNOME bug 581789)
• The GNOME screensaver got a D-Bus method to show a message on the locked screen, to be used for notification of auto logout.
• In GNOME Shell Dan Winship started a message-tray branch, with some minimal Telepathy support, it has a notification popup for messages and avatar icons.
• Brasero got gobject introspection support for its libraries . (GNOME bug 589073)
• libsoup has been fixed to not change HEAD to GET on 303 redirect.
• A new Google Translate plugin has been added to Kupfer (the command tool inspired by Quicksilver).

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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… 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… 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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This week… 1743 commits, in 187 projects, by 195 happy hackers (and 381 were translation commits).

• Alexander Larsson is still working on client side windows in GTK+ and posted a status update.
• A new API to draw routes and lines has been commited to libchamplain . (GNOME bug 572377) (example)
• file-roller has been updated to use new GtkEntry icon support, instead of SexyIconEntry . (GNOME bug 584810)
• gthumb changed from libgphoto to the gphoto gvfs backend . (GNOME bug 583796)
• The gnio rewrite of gvfs FTP support made it so idn/punycode is now supported . (GNOME bug 567871)
• libgnomekbd switched to use single GTK+ includes . (GNOME bug 563629)
• The Hamster applet got the possibility to export reports to CSV . (GNOME bug 549604)
• Support for Adium themes (using WebKit) has been merged in Empathy. Various themes were already tested, and they are listed, with known issues on awiki page (GNOME bug 522069)
• Banshee gained a weighted random mode, to play highest rated songs more often . (GNOME bug 544680)
• Telepathy “tubes” support landed in vino, allowing to share the desktop with Empathy contacts . (GNOME bug 584840)
• Many of the patches Milan Bouchet-Valat created with regards to GTK+ file chooser issues were finally applied.

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This week… 1980 commits, in 184 projects, by 244 happy hackers (and 281 were translation commits).

• Alacarte switched from libglade to gtkbuilder (GNOME bug 577911) and Trevor Watkins published his work on a vala rewrite in the vala+gdesktopmenu branch.
• Anjuta git plugin now features a “amend” option in its commit dialog . (GNOME bug 580340)
• Eog gained a “set as background” command in its image context menu . (GNOME bug 581180)
• Tomas Bzatek fixed the gvfs FTP backend to parse file sizes over 4 gigabytes correctly.
• Robert Carr added a D-Bus module to Seed, he wrote about it in DBus, sandboxes, REPLs, Life.
• Alexander Larsson went through the lowlevel part of gnio, fixing all the issues he pointed out in his initial review, making it work fully on win32, writing docs, plus fixing lots of other things he found. He posted a status report, with some open questions.
• Jonh Wendell started refactoring Vinagre to make it a generic viewer, not just for VNC anymore.
• Vino, XChat-GNOME, deskbar-applet, gnome-system-monitor and Evolution changed to use g_timeout_add_seconds instead of g_timeout_add where appropriate . (GNOME bug 581204, GNOME bug 581094, GNOME bug 581207, GNOME bug 591099, GNOME bug 573830)

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This week… 1245 commits, in 160 projects, by 183 happy hackers (and 277 were translation commits).

• The 3.0 platform cleaning plan was announced and already beared a lot of results : baobab, hamster-applet, gcalctool and glchess got ported to GtkBuilder; brasero, the toolbar editor in libegg and yelp got rid of their glib and GTK+ deprecated symbols; gnome-mag migrated to gio/gvfs; and eog incorporated all it needef rom libart_lgpl, thus removing its dependency (GNOME bug 577940, GNOME bug 578219, GNOME bug 571868, GNOME bug 578304, GNOME bug 517732, GNOME bug 573023, GNOME bug 556808 and GNOME bug 556807, at least).
• Also Matthew Barnes killed the deprecated html-editor component from gtkhtml2, getting rid of bonobo (GNOME bug 571743).
• Several gnome-games (aisleriot, gnibbles, mahjongg, and iagno) were updated to use g_timeout_add_seconds where sensible . (GNOME bug 564202).
• Vincent Untz improved his gnome-session patch, and commited the fix so that reboot and shutdown also leave the session properly, by letting apps exist before doing the real reboot/shutdown.
• The GVFS FTP backend saw several fixes (including GNOME bug 520399, GNOME bug 573349).
• Ignacio Casal Quinteiro added source code completion to GtkSourceView.
• pygtk was changed to use numpy instead of Numeric, that was no longer maintained (GNOME bug 387544).
• Empathy added a new presence selector widget, that incorporates a text field for quick setting of custom messages (GNOME bug 569449).

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This week… 2186 commits, in 244 projects, by 204 happy hackers (and 804 were translation commits).

• Translators are again working hard; Brazilian Portuguese reached 100%, and there are four languages already at 99.9%. Italian jumped from 95.2% to 99.2% thanks in part to Milo Casagrande getting granted a subversion account (welcome!). Estonian and Tamil both reached the 80% mark, there is now 41 languages over it. Noteworthy is also the Oriya team, that increased its score by six points (that’s more than 2500 strings translated in a single week), now at 59.9%.
• Metacity title bars will now include “(as username)” for windows running as another user; this was discussed in a squib of the day (GNOME bug 549389).
• Alexander Larsson fixed many issues in gvfs and gio.
• Empathy logging support got more robust with the merge of Jonny Lamb log-manager branch . (GNOME bug 538293, GNOME bug 549284)
• A new card set, created by Frederik Elwert and using the Tango style, has been added (in gnome-games-extra-data).
• Epiphany and WebKit/GTK+ are again very active, with for example the addition of basic download support . (GNOME bug 570735)
• In GTK+ the drawing of progress in entries was improved, notably so that the progress is drawn behind icons.
• Brian Cameron added a Sound Theme tab to the old gst-mixer, for people that can’t use PulseAudio; he also applied a few lying patches.
• moserial, a clean serial terminal, got imported in GNOME subversion repository.

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This week… 1904 commits, in 187 projects, by 204 happy hackers (and 641 were translation commits).

• British English is the first language to reach 100%, there is now eight languages with over 99% of the UI strings translated, sixteen with over 95%, and 39 over the 80% mark (used to be listed in the release notes).
• There are three new modules in Subversion this week: Gnome Format, a GNOME media formatter, developed by Michael Kanis, gpointing-device-settings, a program for touchpad and trackpad settings, developed by Hiroyuki Ikezoe, and gio-strigi, a GIO wrapper for Strigi, developed by Philip Van Hoof.
• Davyd Madeley started preparing the stage for the 2.26 release notes.
• Following on last week work, Alexander Larsson worked on trusted desktop file launchers in Nautilus.
• Rhythmbox got a D-Bus interface for adding and removing DAAP shares . (GNOME bug 570115)
• GParted added detection of the BRTFS file system.
• David Zeuthen added a –device option to gvfs-mount.
• Support for taking a screenshot of an user-defined selection landed in gnome-screenshot . (GNOME bug 155061, opened in October 2004)
• Lucas Rocha merged his session-saving branch into gnome-session trunk.
• Epiphany (webkit) started using SoupProxyResolverGNOME, so it gets support for GNOME proxy settings through libproxy.
• Bastien Nocera announced the fork of bluez-gnome that is now available in gnome-bluetooth.
• Orca got support for notify-osd (the new Ubuntu notification daemon).

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This week… 1687 commits, in 167 projects, by 184 happy hackers (and 391 were translation commits).

• In Conduit, John Stowers added a new dataprovider that changes the desktop wallpaper, and suggests connecting to a flickr RSS feed…
• Sound Juicer media support has been ported from libnautilusburn to libbrasero-media . (GNOME bug 567286)
• After much testing Behdad Esfahbod removed the ClassDef->Defined field in Pango, and the associated special-handling code; he wrote “The special-casing was consuming lots of memory. EIGHT MEGABYTES for loading DejaVu Sans! While this could be complete fixed, I decided to remove the special-handling code altogether. I don’t think it will make any real difference, and if it does, we’ll fix fonts.”; in another commit he also saved over 2000 alloc calls when loading DejaVu Sans.
• Deskbar got an OpenSearch module . (GNOME bug 528184)
• Cosimo Cecchi implemented write support for the ObexFTP gvfs backend . (GNOME bug 519071)
• Following libnotify acceptance as an external dependency, Empathy got support and will now show a popup notification when receiving a new message.
• Ryan Lortie added _async functions for GDataInputStream (async versions of read_line and read_until ). (GNOME bug 568575)
• file-roller got ported to use gtkbuilder instead of libglade.
• A good bunch of memory leaks were fixed in brasero.
• The Volume Control balance widget got updated to use the new GTK+ scale marks.
• Banshee got a basic clutter UI for rendering the video texture from the clutter sink in the media pipeline.
• Theppitak Karoonboonyanan went on building modules out of their source trees and filed bugs and patches against those failing, many of those issues are already fixed (in gnome-settings-daemon, Ekiga, Brasero and gnome-keyring).
• Callum McKenzie finally killed the last bit of libgnome in gnome-applets; and returned the mixer applet.
• Long standing GTK+ bug (lastly spotted in a post on Planet Gnome by Ruben Vermeersch) got nailed with a patch from Simos Xenitellis . (GNOME bug 162726)
• Rhythmbox improved its handling of transcoding format selection for MTP devices, now preferring MP3 over M4A/AAC . (GNOME bug 567524)
• Pavel Kostyuchenko work on Anjuta/Glade3 integration (part of GSoC, see project his proposal) finally got commited . (GNOME bug 542412)

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