• Richard Hughes added a progress bar on the calibration action page of gnome-color-manager.
• Morten Welinder improved the precision of range functions in goffice.
• Joanmarie Diggs removed the legacy magnification code from orca . (GNOME bug 664651)
• In gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen updated the ATA smart dialog.
• Erik Hartenian improved the Cantarell font, adding “extrema” to all glyphs, and making slight adjustments on a few letters.
• In the gnome-control-center wacom panel Bastien Nocera split out the tablet page, so it can be reused for separate tablet configurations.
• In seahorse Stef Walter added support for creating creating certificate requests as well as support for PKCS#11 key generation.
• Guillaume Desmottes added a “wrong password” dialog to Empathy, used for failing GOA accounts . (GNOME bug 661640)
• Milan Crha implemented fast-transfer for the address book backend of evolution-mapi.
• For gnome-documents Cosimo Cecchi made a first version of GdTaggedEntry, a GtkEntry subclass to which tags can be added (and styled with CSS).
• Anthony Granger updated Cheese preferences dialog to be more netbook-friendly . (GNOME bug 663146)
• Jason Baron added cgroup support in the process view of gnome-system-monitor.
• John Stowers updated gnome-tweak-tool to support the new GNOME Shell 3.3.x DBus interface.

• 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)

• Stef Walter refactored the asynchronous operation code in seahorse.
• Carlos Martín Nieto changed blam to use the db4o database engine for storage.
• Torsten Schönfeld made major improvements to the introspection support in Perl.
• A new chat input style, with smaller meta messages, has been pushed into gnome-shell by Allan Day.
• GNOME Contacts got an initial, and crude, dialog for linking contacts.
• Jiří Techet made the zoom animation in libchamplain configurable.
• The Aunt Mary game has been added back to Aisleriot by Christian Persch . (GNOME bug 325039)
• Ignacio Casal Quinteiro updated the search popup of gedit to use CSS for styling.
• Shaun McCance speeded up urlencode calls in cache generation in yelp-xsl.
• Rodrigo Moya migrated the smartcard gnome-settings-daemon plugin from dbus-glib to gdbus.
• John Stowers added per-document preferences to gedit-latex.
• The new log window of Empathy got landed by Danielle Madeley.
• Matthew Barnes added a “security-method” property to evolution port entry.
• In Gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow added support for the HPFILTER, a function calculating the Hodrick Prescott Filter.
• The new font chooser dialog, developed by Alberto Ruiz, was merged into GTK+.

• The GtkToolPalette widget, which provides a tool palette with categories, has been merged into gtk + (GNOME bug 567729).
• Ke Wang added D-Bus support to the Java ATK wrapper, so it can work with the new AT-SPI
• Thorsten Sick added complete documentation to many of the (lib)seahorse files, and seahorse-plugins migrated from libglade to GtkBuilder.
• Federico Mena Quintero added handling of the XF86RotateWindows hotkey to gnome-settings-daemon, to rotate a laptop display; this is for tablets that have a “rotate the screen” hotkey. It finds the laptop’s built-in video output and rotate it to the next available rotation.
• Colin Walters ported GNOME Shell “AppWell” and panel to CSS . (GNOME bug 602131).
• Anjuta and Brasero both moved code to use the GtkInfoBar widget introduced in GTK+ 2.18.
• The way message parsing and escaping is handled in Empathy has been reworked to handle more cases of URL and smileys replacements.
• The one-canvas branch of the GNOME Icon Theme has been merged to master, many impressive icons in there! (unfortunately it still needs a proper build system, see GNOME bug 602988)
• Alexander Larsson commited GConverter to glib master, it is a generic interface for stateful conversions of data, it is a generic interface suitable for things like IConv, compression, decompression and regexp replacement. He posted to gtk-devel-list about it: GConverted commited.
• Totem gained support for playing DVDs from images, it now shows mounted archives in the Movie menu.
• David Zeuthen cleaned up the user interface of the SMART dialog of gnome-disk-utility. screenshot of cleaned up UI.
• And Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrapped the API added in GIO 2.22 in pygobject.

PS: As it happens more and more that branches were created and deleted repeatedly, to get rebased, I finally adapted the script gathering commits to not count duplicated commits (when they are pushed the same week).

• Seahorse, and many preferences windows from the control center migrated from libglade to GtkBuilder.
• gtk-doc has been updated to also look for dblatex for PDF generation, as it seems to work much better than using fop.
• Cody Russel published a new “client-side-decorations” branch for GTK+.
• Jorge Pereira added a system of plugins to vinagre, based on the gedit one.
• Brasero saw the last bits and pieces of HAL support removed, it will only rely on gio from now . (GNOME bug 581742)
• Gnome Power Manager was updated to port all the code to using PolicyKit1 rather than PolicyKit.

• 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.

• 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)

Top projects

Project	Commits
vala	90
seed	85
ooo-build	56
gnome-scan	54
gnomemm	52
evolution	45
empathy	38
tracker	35
anjuta	33
rygel	33

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Author	Commits	Modules
Jürg Billeter	91	vala, gtksourceview
Robert Carr	66	seed, gir-repository
Jorge Gonzalez Gonzalez	64	ekiga, gnome-media, evolution and others
Étienne Bersac	56	gnome-scan, gegl
Bastien Nocera	53	nautilus-cd-burner, totem, gnome-media and others
Matej Urbančič	45	vino, eog, libgweather and others
Xavier Claessens	37	empathy
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)	35	rygel, jhbuild
Murray Cumming	31	gnomemm, glom, libgda and others
Gabor Keleman	31	gimp, network-manager-openconnect, damned-lies and others

• 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).

I asked Robert Carr some questions about Seed, and its relation to GJS, as they both bridges gobject and javascript, using the mighty gobject-introspection infrastructure; he confirmed he had been in contact with the GJS developers and pointed out some differences:

[Seed is different than GJS] Notably how we handle inheritance (GJS doesn’t). Also “out” arguments from functions we set properties on objects passed in, while GJS returns arrays. Then there are also some other differences with exceptions, signals and a few various things. In addition Seed does some stuff GJS doesn’t (uses libffi to box JavaScript functions into C function pointers, for functions like pango_fontset_foreach), and I’m sure GJS does some stuff that Seed doesn’t.

So compatibility would be an awkward issue at this point in time, so it seems to me like it’s best for both projects to continue development at this point, and once things are more fleshed out, it might become clear what approaches make more sense.

We’ve definitely talked about implementing a common embedding API though, and maybe after one more release it would be good to look at compatibility more.

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