Issue 213

November 4, 2012

This week… 1548 commits, in 157 projects, by 197 happy hackers (and 275 were translation commits).

  • Jakub Steiner made sure the digits of cantarell Bold were monospaced. (GNOME bug 643871)
  • In pinpoint Christoph Fischer repositioned speaker notes box to better use the available height.
  • Cosimo Cecchi added simple extractor for DVI and XPS files to tracker. (GNOME bug 687162 and GNOME bug 687160)
  • César García Tapia added the beginning of a search bar into gnome-music.
  • In grilo-plugins Juan A. Suarez Romero changed the flickr plugin to deal with photos only, not videos.
  • Emmanuel Pacaud added a zoom option to the lasem renderer.
  • Richard Hughes changed gnome-settings-daemon power plugin to avoid suspending, dimming or blanking the screen when running as a virtual machine. (GNOME bug 684801)
  • Alexander Larsson updated gnome-boxes to use the notification widget from libgd. (GNOME bug 679106)
  • In empathy Giovanni Campagna implemented Google OAUTH2 authentication for GOA accounts. (GNOME bug 652546)
  • Jens Georg added an API for Rygel plugins to tell their capabilities. (GNOME bug 676024)
  • Jesse van den Kieboom merged the webkit2 branch of gitg.
  • Jean Bréfort added new color maps for color and pseudo-3d axes in goffice.
  • Aurimas Černius added a special notebook for pinned notes in gnote.
  • Darcy Bras da Silva contributed repeat, no-repeat, shuffle, no-shuffle commands to rhythmbox-client.

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Issue 208

September 30, 2012

This week… 2185 commits, in 228 projects, by 268 happy hackers (and 806 were translation commits).

  • Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller added code to handle missing decoders to Transmageddon.
  • A new mining activity, by Peter Albrecht, landed in gcompris.
  • Stefano Facchini ported gnome-system-monitor to GtkApplication. (GNOME bug 351087)
  • José Alburquerque added the Converter[Input|Output]Stream classes to glibmm.
  • Willem van Engen contributed Flickr support to gnome-online-accounts, disabled by default. (GNOME bug 678151)
  • In zenity, Florian Müllner added an option to set a custom dialog icon, and another option to request a dialog to be modal. (GNOME bug 684329 and GNOME bug 684322)
  • Jean Bréfort updated goffice to use lasem for equation support in graphs.
  • Benjamin Otte had a huge refactoring of GTK+ css code to avoid computing wrong property values.
  • Krzesimir Nowak contributed config file monitoring to Rygel.
  • Heinrich Müller added a rough download meter to the pan2 newsreader. (GNOME bug 102402)
  • In rhythmbox Jonathan Matthew added a new dialog for importing music into the library.

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Issue 191

June 3, 2012

This week… 1236 commits, in 206 projects, by 193 happy hackers (and 270 were translation commits).

  • Andy Spencer added a compass rose to the grits virtual globe library.
  • Bastian Winkler contributed support for optional transformation functions to pygobject. (GNOME bug 676169)
  • Rui Matos changed gnome-settings-daemon to apply XKB layouts by itself, and stop relying on libgnomekbd. (GNOME bug 676102)
  • Giovanni Campagna modified gnome-shell to show notifications for failed VPN connections. (GNOME bug 676330)
  • In glib Christian Persch added D-Bus register and unregister hooks to GApplication. (GNOME bug 675509)
  • Jonathan Matthew fixed the –set-rating command of rhythmbox-client. (GNOME bug 677318)
  • Paolo Bacchilega added an application menu to file-roller.
  • Taryn Fox added a serie of javascript examples to gnome-devel-docs.
  • Bastien Nocera added a new menu button widget to GTK+, as used in Totem and gnome-contacts. (GNOME bug 668013)
  • Emmanuele Bassi added a new “stopped” signal to Clutter timeline object. (GNOME bug 676854)

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Issue 190

May 27, 2012

This week… 1469 commits, in 159 projects, by 206 happy hackers (and 241 were translation commits).

  • Ray Strode ported alacarte to the latest GMenu and introspection. (GNOME bug 626220)
  • In gjs Jasper St. Pierre added a debugger function to retrieve the refcount of a GObject.
  • In gnome-settings-daemon Nicolas Dufresne changed the default touchpad deactivation to 1.0s. (GNOME bug 590783)
  • Valek Filippov continued improving Cyrillic coverage of cantarell-fonts.
  • Kjell Ahlstedt contibuted a –include-pointer command option to gnome-screenshot. (GNOME bug 594141)
  • Marc-André Lureau changed gnome-boxes to always show the top bar when the mouse can be grabbed. (GNOME bug 676307)
  • Marta Maria Casetti contributed various examples in Python to gnome-devel-docs.
  • In gnome-themes-standard Cosimo Cecchi improved the theming support for OSD toolbars and buttons.
  • Matthias Clasen changed the gnome-control-center user accounts panel to use libpwquality for password handling. (GNOME bug 676396)
  • In Nautilus William Jon McCann added a way to create a new directory from a selection. (GNOME bug 676432)
  • Florian Müllner added a generic –mode switch to gnome-shell, to be used by gdm, initial-setup, or others. (GNOME bug 676156)
  • Michael Hill added the beginning of a new administrator guide into gnome-user-docs.
  • Jonathan Matthew added a new podcast search infrastructure and podcast subscription dialog in Rhythmbox.
  • Piotr Piastucki improved inline highlighting performances in Meld.

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Issue 182

April 1, 2012

This week… 2870 commits, in 255 projects, by 310 happy hackers (and 635 were translation commits).

  • Jasper St. Pierre imported mustache into extensions-web, to get new template system that will allow to sanely translate the website.
  • In pygobject John Palmieri added a ccallback type which is used to invoke callbacks passed to a vfunc. (GNOME bug 644926)
  • In tomboy Alex Tereschenko added the possibility to work on search results in addition to just one note.
  • Ray Strode dropped the numlock warning from gnome-screensaver unlock dialog. (GNOME bug 662093)
  • Jean Bréfort improved goffice to use a fallback image when the actual image type is not supported.
  • In rhythmbox Jonathan Matthew commited a new more compact header layout, now it has the playback controls, the current track information (including album art), the time display, the position slider, and the volume control on the same line.
  • Christopher Baines fixed gcalctool to stop entering thousands seperators when using a base other than 10.
  • Xan Lopez changed epiphany to always save the session state on Quit.
  • In gnome-documents Florian Müllner made search queries cancellable; to avoid congesting the connection queue, cancel ongoing queries before starting a new one. (GNOME bug 672733)
  • Debarshi Ray added Microsoft Exchange support (using EWS) to gnome-online-accounts.
  • In Cheese Patricia Santana Cruz added a timer when recording a video. (GNOME bug 599729)
  • Erick Pérez Castellanos added webcam support to set new avators in gnome-contacts.
  • Bastien Nocera changed Totem to pass proxy informations to GStreamer elements. (GNOME bug 395429)

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Issue 179

March 11, 2012

This week… 2499 commits, in 192 projects, by 263 happy hackers (and 793 were translation commits).

  • Jean Bréfort added gobject introspection support to goffice. (GNOME bug 670161)
  • Morten Welinder improved the Excel export support in gnumeric in various ways.
  • Giovanni Campagna ported libgweather to GSettings. (GNOME bug 646854)
  • In empathy Guillaume Desmottes added some sanity cleaning process to fix XMPP accounts priority. (GNOME bug 671452)
  • Peter Hurley contributed to gnome-panel to get the panel separators sized by CSS styling. (GNOME bug 671329)
  • Bertrand Lorentz updated banshee to handle UPnP device removal.
  • The port of swell-foop to Vala that Sophia Yu worked on landed in gnome-games.
  • Alejandro Piñeiro got various fixes to accessibility support commited into gnome-shell.
  • Bastien Nocera updated gnome-settings-daemon wacom plugin so that the LED changes depending on the mode of operation. (GNOME bug 670905)
  • In rhythmbox Jonathan Matthew made magnatune download accounts work again.
  • Ryan Lortie updated dconf engine to allow multiple user databases. (GNOME bug 662438)
  • The history rewrite branch of Epiphany landed, thanks to Xan Lopez, Martin Robinson, and Claudio Saavedra.

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Issue 168

December 25, 2011

This week… 1842 commits, in 176 projects, by 213 happy hackers (and 233 were translation commits).

  • Kai Willadsen changed meld to draw the currently displayed page area in the DiffMap. (GNOME bug 470729)
  • In Eog Felix Riemann made EXIF/XMP summaries available as a sidebar. (GNOME bug 616438)
  • Xavier Claessens added Windows Live oauth2 support to gnome-online-accounts. (GNOME bug 661067)
  • Claudio Saavedra combined the Reload and Stop toolbar buttons of Epiphany into a single one. (GNOME bug 657655)
  • Cosimo Cecchi did work on gnome-documents new application menu.
  • In Evolution Milan Crha made it possible to decrypt GPG mails with anonymous recipient set. (GNOME bug 331361)
  • Jonathan Matthew added extdb, a database for storing external metadata (e.g. album art images), to Rhythmbox.
  • Stef Walter added system prompt and prompter to gcr.
  • Giovanni Campagna reintroduced Wanda The Fish into gnome-shell.
  • Jeffrey Stedfast fixed gmime with regards to multibyte sequences split between two rfc2047 tokens.
  • Yasumichi Akahoshi changed Zenity documentation to use Mallard, and did new and updated screenshots to go along.
  • In Banshee Bertrand Lorentz added a button to go back to the list of audiobooks. (GNOME bug 656439)

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Issue 167

December 18, 2011

This week… 1782 commits, in 171 projects, by 230 happy hackers (and 189 were translation commits).

  • Philip Chimento converted Devhelp from IgeMacIntegration to GtkOSXApplication, a change necessary to build on 64-bit Macs. (GNOME bug 663789)
  • In rhythmbox Jonathan Matthew used some special cow powers to made password prompts work properly. (GNOME bug 666338)
  • In gnome-themes-standard Lapo Calamandrei continued working on unfocused window appearance, styling radio, checks, sliders, progressbars and scrollbars.
  • Juan A. Suarez Romero updated the shoutcast plugin in grilo-plugins to the SHOUTCast 2.0 API.
  • Zeeshan Ali added some UI to gnome-boxes for specifying product key (Windows XP & 2003). (GNOME bug 666030)
  • Alexander Larsson added support for unlinking contacts to gnome-contacts.
  • Jakub Steiner updated gnome-color-manager colorimeter artwork.
  • Alex Murray added automatic dimming / toggling to keyboard backlight to gnome-settings-daemon power plugin.
  • Work on the Firebird provider, by Faghmie Davids, was pushed into libgda.
  • In Evince Cyril Soldani added an option to show odd pages on the left in dual mode.
  • Andreas J. Guelzow fixed LaTeX export of cyrillic in Gnumeric. (GNOME bug 666340)
  • In Rygel Jens Georg added hacks for XBMC to recognize DLNA mime-types as AAC for AAC files.
  • Robert Roth contributed to gnome-system-monitor a patch to summarize the processor cores to be able to display sysinfo for multi-core systems with more than 13 cores. (GNOME bug 664926)
  • Christian Persch added a lock button the the drwright break window. (GNOME bug 128381)

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Issue 161

November 6, 2011

This week… 1522 commits, in 143 projects, by 202 happy hackers (and 179 were translation commits).

  • Dan Winship added API to handle redirections in libsoup.
  • Chris Kühl modified gnome-system-monitor to include the process name in the end and kill process dialogs. (GNOME bug 560162)
  • Will Thompson changed pinpoint to inhibit screensaver while fullscreened.
  • In seahorse Stef Walter implemented locking and unlocking of tokens.
  • Zeeshan Ali added basic support for creating a VM to gnome-boxes.
  • In cogl Robert Bragg started reducing the dependency to glib.
  • David Zeuthen changed gnome-disk-utility to default to formatting removable media as NTFS, noting that ideally we’d have a good filesystem for removable media but that’s not the way things work right now.
  • Ekaterina Gerasimova rewrote the gnome-system-log help in Mallard. (GNOME bug 658455)
  • In gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow improved text and hyperlinks import/export from and to ODF. (GNOME bug 663135 and GNOME bug 603533)
  • In gparted Curtis Gedak fixed the display of ext2/3/4 and NTFS unicode volume labels. (GNOME bug 662537)
  • Jean Bréfort added some optional support for EPS images into libgoffice.
  • Cosimo Cecchi made a first implementation of a search dropdown filter in gnome-documents.
  • In rhythmbox Jonathan Matthew reworked the search UI and added a source toolbar.
  • Carlos Garcia Campos added a serie of tools to manipulate xps files into libgxps.
  • Jasper St. Pierre added tab-completion to gnome-shell looking glass. (GNOME bug 661054)
  • Patricia Santana Cruz added camera hotplug support to the preferences dialog of Cheese. (GNOME bug 603612)

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Issue 156

October 2, 2011

This week… 2810 commits, in 216 projects, by 325 happy hackers (and 767 were translation commits).

  • In gdk-pixbuf Keith Moyer fixed gif animation delays between frames. (GNOME bug 655755)
  • Jonathan Matthew converted Rhythmbox to be based on GtkApplication.
  • Emmanuele Bassi added support for run-time backend detection in clutter-gtk.
  • Jasper St. Pierre added a better, more contextual review list UI for extensions.gnome.org.
  • Dan Winship updated libsoup to use GTlsDatabase, and added new SoupSession properties for it.
  • In clutter-gst Damien Lespiau changed how audio and subtitles tracks are reported.
  • Cosimo Cecchi updated gnome-screenshot to use GNOME Shell DBus screenshot interface if available. (GNOME bug 657330)
  • Sébastien Wilmet changed latexila to use theme icons, instead of relying of icons copied from Kile.
  • Murray Cumming updated glom to use CSS3 formatting for colors.
  • Ignacio Casal Quinteiro added a snippets manager to gedit-latex.
  • Copy and paste from gnumeric to other programs has been fixed by Andreas J. Guelzow. (GNOME bug 660242)
  • In goffice Morten Welinder improved the precision of range functions when the input vector is (near-)constant.
  • Jens Georg added some delay before handling SoupMessage signals in rygel, to avoid getting stray signals when one of the precondition checks fails.
  • Support for DVD playing has been added to Banshee, this includes menu navitation and is the work of Alex Launi, Olivier Dufour, and Bertrand Lorenz.
  • Richard Hugues added an ICC profile metadata blacklist to gnome-color-manager.
  • Jonny Lamb removed workarounds for Butterfly bugs from Empathy. (GNOME bug 612555)
  • Christophe Dumez optimised the parsing of vcards in evolution-data-server.

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