GNOME Commit-Digest

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… 1950 commits, in 167 projects, by 242 happy hackers (and 218 were translation commits).

• Banshee gained a “shuffle by album” option (GNOME bug 348582)
• Epiphany support for Python extensions has been removed, the supported language for extensions other than C/C++ is now JavaScript through Seed.
• Support for publishing geolocation information has been merged into Empathy (GNOME bug 571666)
• Milan Crha added a folder emblem to show new mail arrivals to Evolution (GNOME bug 323037); also Evolution dropped support for CDE (GNOME bug 582939).
• Support for the JPEG 2000 image format has been added to Gimp (GNOME bug 111409)
• GTK+ gained a new GtkInfoBar widget, similar to GeditMessageArea and similar widgets in Firefox. Its API is inspired by GtkDialog, with a content area and an action area. The message area uses symbolic colors for different background colors for warnings, errors, informational messages, etc . (GNOME bug 555344)
• Rhythmbox track change notification bubbles gained a “Skip” button (GNOME bug 331272)
• Shaun McCance created a new “mallard” branch for Yelp, to add support for the new Mallard document format.
• Christian Persch made a few HIG improvements to the NetworkManager connection editor (GNOME bug 584223)
• JHBuild GUI was rewritten to be totally awesome (and to not require libglade).
• PyBank, the bindings for GIRepository, got handling of structs as return values.
• Most importantly, Anjuta splash screen got rewritten from the obsolete libgnomecanvas to straight cairo (GNOME bug 571740).

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This week… 2205 commits, in 220 projects, by 230 happy hackers (and 267 were translation commits).

• Still in the aftermath of the Git migration, 189 commits were about DOAP files and JHBuild got his Git support quite improved.
• Empathy now displays the transfer speed in its file transfer dialog . (GNOME bug 580097)
• Meld has added support for SVK . (GNOME bug 416418)
• Epiphany was fixed to use GNOME settings for the default font sizes, instead of the WebKitGTK+ defaults.
• The libgnomeui dependency was removed from both the GStreamer Properties and the Media Profiles in gnome-media.
• Peter Bloomfield ported the Balsa mail client to use GMime 2.4.
• In evolution-data-server, Rob Branford ported libedata and libebook to D-Bus in the D-Bus branch, and Philip Withnall converted the Google calendar backend to use the external libgdata in the libgdata-port branch.
• David Zeuthen commited his GDBus work in a new gdbus branch of glib; and Dan Winship merged his GResolver (a glib-ish interface to DNS) branch into glib (and blogged about it ). (GNOME bug 548466)
• Nautilus now use g_timeout_add_seconds instead of g_timeout_add where appropriate (GNOME bug 574033); also Deprecated GTK+ symbols were removed . (GNOME bug 565038)
• Shaun McCance pushed his Mallard branch to the gnome-doc-utils repository.
• GNote, the Tomboy Gtkmm clone, got support for Add-ins . (GNOME bug 578980)

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This week… 1590 commits, in 166 projects, by 183 happy hackers (and 153 were translation commits).

• Many modules saw development releases for 2.25.1.
• The libgnome dependency got removed from gnome-power-manager, and gnome-utils (dictionary, screenshot, logview) removed it as well as the dependency on libgnomeui.
• In the same vain, seahorse-plugins removed its gnome-vfs dependency.
• William Jon McCann commited a new volume control using PulseAudio, deprecating the old gst-mixer one.
• Behdad Esfahbod worked quite a bit on gnome-settings-daemon and blogged about the improved login time he achieved.
• Benjamin Berg added a Clearlookstest theme, as he proposed on desktop-devel-list several weeks ago, it is not enabled by default though.
• Seed, GObject-Javascript bridge, was finally revealed by Robert Carr on gtk-devel-list.
• brasero got a nautilus extension, based on current nautilus-cd-burner.
• John Carr commited support for git mirrors to jhbuild (support for bzr mirrors coming soon).

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