GNOME Commit-Digest

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… 2015 commits, in 171 projects, by 239 happy hackers (and 242 were translation commits).

• Robin Sonefors contributed a prime factorization function to gcalctool (GNOME bug 563217).
• Evolution got rid of all the deprecated GTK+ symbols it used (GNOME bug 572348).
• Pascal Terjan ported the Pidgin nautilus-sendto plugin to use Pidgin D-Bus API (GNOME bug 597039).
• GNOME Shell added a calendar pop-down to the clock (GNOME bug 596432).
• Sound Juicer has been converted to use the Inhibit interface from gnome-session (GNOME bug 596570).
• Vinagre got configurable depth support (in the “depth” branch, to be merged once a new gtk-vnc release gets out ). (GNOME bug 485204)
• Thanks to the efficient scrollback store in vte 0.22 Christian Persch added support for unlimited scrollback to gnome-terminal.
• Nautilus gained a checkbox for not assocating a filetype on open with . (GNOME bug 92497)
• Ryan Lortie commited GSettings property binding support and a GValue serialiser into the gsettings glib branch.
• Empathy fixed its handling of fallback HTML files in Adium themes . (GNOME bug 596303)

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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… 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… 2594 commits, in 269 projects, by 223 happy hackers (and 993 were translation commits).

• 2.26 got released on Wednesday, and translators worked hard, a special mention for the Maithili and Assamese teams, that improved their percentages by near 20 points.
• An initial backend support for GDB Variable Objects landed in Nemiver.
• Philippe Rouquier started splitting brasero between backend and application.
• The Mini-Commander applet got support for https URL . (GNOME bug 575782)
• Cosimo Cecchi fixed nautilus to spawn its windows on the correct screen, instead of always using the default one . (GNOME bug 555078)
• Epiphany got support for translucent link-message statusbar, ‘Inspired’ from Chrome, will show the link-message in a translucent floating div on the bottom left corner of the web view if the normal statusbar is hidden.
• Cody Russel improved the GTK+ menu theming on Win32, using the new menu styling API, it makes GTK+ looks much better on Windows Vista . (GNOME bug 538840)
• Rhythmbox will now use the new GtkEntry API for the “clear” icon in its search entry, rather than libsexy’s SexyIconEntry; also GnomeHRef usage has been replaced with GtkLinkButton, that removes the libgnome dependency.
• Also the Rhythmbox Jamendo XML parser got rewritten to create database entries in a single pass, rather than creating an intermediate structure and converting that to database entries. This speeds up catalogue loading and reduces memory consumption . (GNOME bug 424423)
• Rygel got transcoding support, from any format (that GStreamer can handle) to
  mp3, LPCM and mpeg transport stream.
• In the Murrine GTK+ engine Andrea Cimitan removed shadows from comboboxentry’s button and welcomes any feedback on this.
• Finally two new modules in Subversion this week: Jordi Mas imported Mistelixa, a DVD authoring tool, and Krzesimir Nowak imported libvtemm, C++ bindings to libvte.

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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… 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… 1540 commits, in 182 projects, by 162 happy hackers (and 229 were translation commits).

• Most important, ORBit2 stopped calling g_thread_init() to accomodate the sensitiveness of Microsoft Windows and will display a warning if it was not previously called, this will need changes in a lot of places . (GNOME bug 547885)
• Jürg Billeter fixed lots of bugs in vala, applied patches, and generally enhanced things (notably the D-Bus server was rewritten to directly use libdbus, without dbus-glib marshalling) and released 0.5.3.
• Vala-related, Stefan Walter removed last vala traces from seahorse.
• The libgnomeui dependency was removed from the brightness and inhibit applets, NetworkManager OpenVPN and PPTP support, and libgnome usage was removed from the dictionary applet.
• Alexander Larsson merged eel into nautilus and eel usage was consequently removed from nautilus-cd-burner and brasero.
• Empathy got autocompletion of contact names in its “new message” dialog box . (GNOME bug 552296)
• Patrick Welche updated Dasher from gnome-vfs to gvfs.
• g_timeout_add_seconds replaced g_timeout_add in several new places: in nautilus-sendto, gnome-power-manager, gedit, gnome-games, seahorse.
• The AAC profile, as defined in gnome-media, and used by applications such as Sound Juicer and gnome-sound-recoreder, switched to LC-AAC profile . (GNOME bug 498617)

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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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