GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 2027 commits, in 180 projects, by 252 happy hackers (and 403 were translation commits).

• Totem got (on-disk) buffering support for downloads, Bastien Nocera blogged about it: No more stuttering.
• The gvfs webdav backend has been changed to remember cookies while it’s running.
• Carlos Garnocho made the SPARQL API of Tracker fully asynchronous.
• Postr (the GNOME Flickr Uploader) has been improved to allow direct editing of title and description, when double clicking (or pressing the Return key) on the photo . (GNOME bug 562162)
• Xavier Claessens added support for some IRC slash commands to Empathy, the currently supported commands are /clear, /topic, /join, /query and /msg . (GNOME bug 573407)
• Also in Empathy Guillaume Desmottes added the display of an error message when codec negotation fails . (GNOME bug 581789)
• The GNOME screensaver got a D-Bus method to show a message on the locked screen, to be used for notification of auto logout.
• In GNOME Shell Dan Winship started a message-tray branch, with some minimal Telepathy support, it has a notification popup for messages and avatar icons.
• Brasero got gobject introspection support for its libraries . (GNOME bug 589073)
• libsoup has been fixed to not change HEAD to GET on 303 redirect.
• A new Google Translate plugin has been added to Kupfer (the command tool inspired by Quicksilver).

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This week… 2257 commits, in 200 projects, by 207 happy hackers (and 665 were translation commits).

• Again the translation teams do great in the commits top 10, taking five places; the teams are Basque, Swedish, Romanian, Danish and Finnish (Iñaki Larrañaga Murgoitio, Daniel Nylander, Jani Monoses and Ilkka Tuohela).
• gtk-doc got the possibility to link to struct members . (GNOME bug 565126)
• The deskbar-applet bookmark search will also look at epiphany topics . (GNOME bug 572291)
• In glib Alexander Larsson modified g_content_type_guess to never sniff desktop files when the filename is known. In other words, only allow desktop files with the .desktop extension and when the filename isn’t known. This is a security precaution since desktop files can execute arbitrary code when launched and we don’t want to allow them to try and hide as another type. There is no legit reason to not have the .desktop extension anyway. (the .desktop issue is also being discussed in desktop-devel-list)
• Tracker got support for IPTC metadata in jpeg and tiff files.
• Sven Neumann gave some love to the GTK+ directfb support, applying some patches, fixing some issues.
• Epiphany has a new option to open new windows in tabs (only available as a gconf key for now ). (GNOME bug 571593)
• Christian Persch killed the custom OBox widget from gnome-panel as GtkBox now supports changing the orientation.
• The balance bar in the new volume control will now instant-apply . (GNOME bug 566423)
• Metacity got totally rid of metacity-dialog, and will now use zenity to present dialogs . (GNOME bug 521914)
• Vinagre got updated to allow IPv6 address on the command line and in the connection dialog.
• Rygel is getting ready for a new release, several changes here, notably the response for seekable media request is now sent buffer by buffer so the whole file is not put into memory.
• And finally, a pythonconsole plugin, based on the gedit plugin, landed in eog.

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This week… 1470 commits, in 149 projects, by 183 happy hackers (and 126 were translation commits).

• Support for file transfer has been merged in Empathy; it is currently only available for Link-Local XMPP, support for Jabber should now be implemented in telepathy-gabble; Guillaume Desmottes posted about this.
• gnome-shell is progressing nicely and Owen Taylor gave a status update.
• f-spot moved from gnome-vfs to gio.
• Behdad Esfahbod continued his work on vte and its pangocairo backend, he also removed obsolete backends.
• Josselin Mouette merged Debian patches into esound, which prompted the release of 0.2.41.
• Rhythmbox can now deal with uninitialized iPods.
• Benjamin Otte improved the gvfs FTP backend to work with more FTP servers.
• evolution-mapi, a connector to Microsoft Exchange 2007, gained its own subversion module and has been proposed for 2.26.
• tracker got its indexer module API GObject oriented, this will allow easier bindings development and more flexible behaviour for modules.
• Glade gained a new editor for cell renderers.

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This week… 1802 commits, in 171 projects, by 195 happy hackers (and 301 were translation commits).

A port of dasher in Java has been added to the dasher repository, it was done by Chris Smowton. Sébastien Granjoux implemented support for gdbserver in Anjuta. William Jon McCann worked a little bit on the user-switch-applet that is now part of gdm. Empathy gained a pidgin-accounts import dialog and finally got support for chatroom invitations. More modules were migrated away from libgnome (gnome-games, marlin, cheese) and to GtkBuilder (eog) and gio (tracker search tool).

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