• 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)

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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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