GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 1282 commits, in 164 projects, by 171 happy hackers (and 156 were translation commits).

• Totem got a new Jamendo plugin in totem, a patch from David Jean Louis (GNOME bug 561811) (a screenshot is posted below).
• Empathy lost its libgnomeui dependency and evince dropped its libglade one.
• gtk-doc now highlights deprecation warnings, and they are now also supported in signals and properties (GNOME bug 562655).
• glib added functions for shadowed mounts (a mount is said to be shadowed if there exists one or more user visible objects (currently GMount objects) with a root that is inside the root of mount.) and nautilus started using them.
• Behdad Esfahbod continued his vte cleaning.
• Dan Winship moved Luxembourg (city) out of Belgium (GNOME bug #562772).
• anjuta devhelp plugin got updated to devhelp/webkit (GNOME bug #560311) and got a button to access online API help (library.gnome.org)
• Federico Mena Quintero added support to use libnotify for errors displayed by gnome-settings-daemon xrandr module
• GTK+ (trunk) got a method to draw progress in a GtkEntry (GNOME bug 546285), this was prompted by Epiphany developers wondering about a progress-in-location-bar idea.

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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… 1363 commits, in 162 projects, by 184 happy hackers (and 164 were translation commits).

• The getting-rid-of-libgnome-and-gnome-vfs quest continues with Ekiga losing its dependency on libgnome and Anjuta removing some gnome-vfs usage
• Matthias Clasen added lockdown support in the gnome-settings-daemon keybinding plugin (GNOME bug 553434)
• In rhythmbox Christophe Fergeau switched several g_timeout_add to g_timeout_add_seconds so it wakes up the CPU less often; and Bastien Nocera added detection of the new PSP-3000
• Bedhad Esfahbod added pangocairo backend to vte, and made it the default; it is as fast as the xft backend.
• NetworkManager got support for PKCS#12 private keys
• Evince got support for PDF layers (but it doesn’t seem like such support has been merged in poppler yet)
• Murray Cumming created projects.gnome.org, to host project pages that were on www.gnome.org/projects/; he posted to devel-announce to explain the motivation and implications
• Finally, in GTK+-land, Michael Natterer added the new orientation API to GtkRange

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