GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 1925 commits, in 174 projects, by 218 happy hackers (and 183 were translation commits).

• libgnomekbd and gnome-power-manager have been converted from libglade to GTKBuilder.
• Vino got ported from libdbus to dbus-glib, as a first step towards integration with the Telepathy framework . (GNOME bug 580464)
• In GTK+ the GtkLabel gained the possibility to show hyperlinks, that feature was previously provided SexyUrlLabel . (GNOME bug 508810)
• Also in GTK+ a printing backend using PAPI, as found on OpenSolaris, has been added (to both master and 2.16 ) (GNOME bug 382676)
• Support for annotations landed in Evince, it requires libpoppler 0.11 (GNOME bug 315002)
• Empathy added a fullscreen mode for video playback . (GNOME bug 580771)
• Behdad Esfahbod merged his harfbuzz-ng branch into Pango.
• The Volume Control has been updated to show high-level channel mapping string for each devices, this gives pretty names such as “Surround 7.1″ or “Stereo” ; (GNOME bug 581921).
• After a discussion on desktop-devel-list Robert Carr created a new gnome-js-common module, to share code and tests between Seed and GJS.
• In Seed a new module to bind Cairo has been developed.
• Alexander Larsson imported gnio (socket and networking support) into glib.
• Much work happened (and is still ongoing) in Orca to refactor the speech and braille generators . (GNOME bug 570658)

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This week… 1751 commits, in 173 projects, by 183 happy hackers (and 462 were translation commits).

• Glade added “commit” signal to allow custom editors to do command group/macros serialized around property changes; this will be used by Anjuta.
• A “Removable Devices” plugin landed in nautilus-sendo (GNOME bug 453758)
• Almost three years after 0.6.1, libcroco 0.6.2 has been tagged and released, incorporating many patches.
• Epiphany (2.26 branch) got updated for yet another Mozilla API change (for Gecko 1.9.1 support).
• In Pango Behdad Esfahbod again saved over 100 alloc calls when loading DejaVu Sans.
• A new metacity branch (rpnparser) was created to host a possible RPN-based parser which is (slightly) faster and (hopefully) clearer than the existing one.
• Empathy got a rewritten voice/video call support, using farsight2 instead of stream-engine.
• Tomboy has been ported to GtkPrint, gnome-games is now the last module to use the deprecated libgnomeprint/ui library.
• Seahorse has been updated to it only autostarts the daemon when sharing is enabled.
• And Colin Walters merged the “statusmenu” branch into gnome-shell.

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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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