GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 1906 commits, in 181 projects, by 237 happy hackers (and 363 were translation commits).

• A full screen mode has been added to emerillon (GNOME bug 599764).
• John Wendell fixed several memory leaks in Vinagre and gtk-vnc.
• A new “Document License” tab has been added to Evince, it can display license information embedded in PDF files (GNOME bug 349173)
• In GNOME Games, gnometris got renamed to quadrapassel (due to trademark concerns), and same-gnome to swell-foop (due to “GNOME” in the old name).
• Support for group profiles has been added to Sabayon, thanks to Scott Balneaves.
• GTK+ was updated to use standard Mac shortcuts on Mac OS X (Cmd-X, Cmd-C, etc .). (GNOME bug 530351)
• Ignacio Casal Quinteiro ported gedit to GSettings, in the appropriately named gsettings branch of gedit; this is still a work in progress.
• Thomas Thurman added a first theme using CSS to the cowbell branch of metacity, the theme is named Sunshine.
• Peter Bloomfield marked important items in the balsa toolbars, so they work better with the new “text besides icons” default.
• Andreas J. Guelzow added ODF compability function “SHEETS” to Gnumeric.
• Matthew Barnes started porting Evolution from libglade to GtkBuilder.
• Finally usage of libgnomevfs has been removed from gnome-pilot.

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This week… 1781 commits, in 178 projects, by 250 happy hackers (and 298 were translation commits).

• A fullscreen mode has been added to xchat-gnome (GNOME bug 445638).
• Jonh Wendell added the ability to use JPEG compression (thus lossy encoding) to vinagre . (GNOME bug 573272)
• Evince has been changed to always use a different process for every document.
• Eog got support for animated images, it plays animated images as supported by GdkPixbufAnimation (GNOME bug 335093).
• gnome-pilot was ported to GtkBuilder, and removed most of its usage of libgnomeui.
• Empathy removed its applets (megaphone, nothere) and Python bindings of libempathy and libempathy-gtk, on the premise they were unused and applications should use telepathy-glib, and a future telepathy-gtk, via gobject-introspection.
• Colin Walters updated the GNOME Shell to use a stable ordering for well-known icons in the notification area (volume, battery, network… ;). (GNOME bug 598313)
• Brasero got changed to no longer store some settings with GConf anymore (like window size or position of widgets) but to save and load them using GKeyFile instead.
• Thomas Thurman worked quite a lot on the “cowbell” metacity branch, to allow styling of window borders using CSS, he also posted a status update.
• Ray Strode made DeviceKit-power optional in gdm.
• GNOME Disk Utility got handling of LUKS volumes.
• Martyn Rucell updated the Totem tracker plugin to the new (0.7) tracker API.
• Paolo Bacchilega added PackageKit support to File Roller, so it will now prompt for new packages when opening archives that require an uninstalled tool.

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This week… 2078 commits, in 184 projects, by 233 happy hackers (and 438 were translation commits).

• The new GtkFileSystemModel worked by Benjamin Otte and Federico Mena Quintero has been pushed to GTK+.
• Also in GTK+, a new GtkSpinner widget has been commited . (GNOME bug 319607)
• libsoup was changed to allow multiple pending connections to a server at once, as only allowing a single connection attempt at once really slows down pages with lots of subresources on servers that disallow persistent connections . (GNOME bug 594768)
• gdm has been converted from using gnome-power-manager to DeviceKit-power . (GNOME bug 596569)
• Jason Clinton pushed the Clutter rewrite of the Nibbles game, done by Guillaume Beland during his summer of code.
• Vinagre has been updated to keep the aspect ratio when using scaling mode . (GNOME bug 593192)
• Jason Childs added support for transparent objects in dia, by adding alpha to the Color structure . (GNOME bug 591525)
• Devhelp has been modified to look for an existing local copy of documents referred by their library.gnome.org location . (GNOME bug 598598)
• xml2po has been fixed to work with parallel builds . (GNOME bug 593175)
• Balsa, Gimp and goffice were all ported to compile fine with GSEAL enabled.

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This week… 2015 commits, in 171 projects, by 239 happy hackers (and 242 were translation commits).

• Robin Sonefors contributed a prime factorization function to gcalctool (GNOME bug 563217).
• Evolution got rid of all the deprecated GTK+ symbols it used (GNOME bug 572348).
• Pascal Terjan ported the Pidgin nautilus-sendto plugin to use Pidgin D-Bus API (GNOME bug 597039).
• GNOME Shell added a calendar pop-down to the clock (GNOME bug 596432).
• Sound Juicer has been converted to use the Inhibit interface from gnome-session (GNOME bug 596570).
• Vinagre got configurable depth support (in the “depth” branch, to be merged once a new gtk-vnc release gets out ). (GNOME bug 485204)
• Thanks to the efficient scrollback store in vte 0.22 Christian Persch added support for unlimited scrollback to gnome-terminal.
• Nautilus gained a checkbox for not assocating a filetype on open with . (GNOME bug 92497)
• Ryan Lortie commited GSettings property binding support and a GValue serialiser into the gsettings glib branch.
• Empathy fixed its handling of fallback HTML files in Adium themes . (GNOME bug 596303)

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This week… 2195 commits, in 186 projects, by 288 happy hackers (and 328 were translation commits).

• Now that gnome-doc-utils and yelp both have support for Mallard documents, Milo Casagrande converted gnome-hello documentation to the new format.
• After some discussion on the gnomecc list the default toolbar style has been changed to “Text beside items”.
• Sabayon was changed to use Xephyr instead of Xnest, as Xephyr supports the “new” X extensions.
• gnome-session has been fixed to not exit when the system bus restarts . (GNOME bug 583345)
• A new “ssh” plugin appeared in vinagre, which is becoming a universal tool to access remote systems.
• Robin Stocker added to Totem the functionality to remember the current position of a stream when pausing or closing . (GNOME bug 164918)
• After Hylke Bons posted some thoughts on the font viewer Thomas Wood started implementing the proposed ideas, in the “font-viewer-revamp” branch of the GNOME Control Center.
• Anjuta Git plugin gained an option to initialize new repositories . (GNOME bug 566698)
• Finally, during this 10th week of the summer of code, students were hard at work, some noticeable advancements:
  • Paul A. Bellamy successfully implemented syncing and a properties dialog for MTP devices in Rhythmbox;
  • Neil Loknath added streaming to Banshee using Telepathy, you can now stream a contact’s music after downloading their library info;
  • Paulo Cabido merged the plugin engine with Getting Things Gnome main development branch.

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This week… 1769 commits, in 177 projects, by 216 happy hackers (and 351 were translation commits).

• 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.

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This week… 1881 commits, in 190 projects, by 250 happy hackers (and 279 were translation commits).

• DBus support has been added to gjs . (GNOME bug 580948).
• gnome-power-manager went back to use the original idletime code to fix backlight bugs, Richard Hughes explained in his commit that “The new IDLETIME code from gnome-session is very buggy, and the old code was much easier to understand. This should fix random DPMS off blanking and the fade-up-down-up on session resume.”
• In Empathy Pierre-Luc Beaudouin added support to display the locations of contacts on a map widget (provided by libchamplain ). (GNOME bug 571667)
• Vinagre gained a new “read-only” toggle button in its toolbar . (GNOME bug 583230)
• Johannes Schmid removed the remaining libglade bits from anjuta, that is now using GtkBuilder . (GNOME bug 530740)
• gdl, the GNOME Docking Library, removed its dependency on libgnome (GNOME bug 580860) and dropped libglade in favour of GtkBuilder (GNOME bug 582511).
• xchat-gnome got rid of the deprecated GTK+ symbols it was using (GNOME bug 572239).
• More than five years after it was first reported, thanks to the migration to WebKit, Epiphany will now set the Referer header when opening links in new tabs . (GNOME bug 120341)

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This week… 1980 commits, in 184 projects, by 244 happy hackers (and 281 were translation commits).

• Alacarte switched from libglade to gtkbuilder (GNOME bug 577911) and Trevor Watkins published his work on a vala rewrite in the vala+gdesktopmenu branch.
• Anjuta git plugin now features a “amend” option in its commit dialog . (GNOME bug 580340)
• Eog gained a “set as background” command in its image context menu . (GNOME bug 581180)
• Tomas Bzatek fixed the gvfs FTP backend to parse file sizes over 4 gigabytes correctly.
• Robert Carr added a D-Bus module to Seed, he wrote about it in DBus, sandboxes, REPLs, Life.
• Alexander Larsson went through the lowlevel part of gnio, fixing all the issues he pointed out in his initial review, making it work fully on win32, writing docs, plus fixing lots of other things he found. He posted a status report, with some open questions.
• Jonh Wendell started refactoring Vinagre to make it a generic viewer, not just for VNC anymore.
• Vino, XChat-GNOME, deskbar-applet, gnome-system-monitor and Evolution changed to use g_timeout_add_seconds instead of g_timeout_add where appropriate . (GNOME bug 581204, GNOME bug 581094, GNOME bug 581207, GNOME bug 591099, GNOME bug 573830)

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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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