GNOME Commit-Digest

Issue 58

This week… 1612 commits, in 180 projects, by 213 happy hackers (and 293 were translation commits).

Banshee was migrated to the Last.fm 2.0 API . (GNOME bug 541227)
A general search feature has been added to Rygel, including Tracker.
The GtkNotebook widget got an “action area”, to be used for things like having a single close tab button to the right of all tabs. Johannes Schmid wrote about it in his weblog: GtkNotebook action widgets . (GNOME bug 116650)
Totem gained an on-screen display when in fullscreen mode, Bastien Nocero announced it in A little OSD . (GNOME bug 600985)
Simon van der Linden added the possibility to import wrappers from pygi to pygobject.
The GNOME Shell got presence items added to the status menu . (GNOME bug 601458)
Behdad Esfahbod reverted a commit to vte, as not clearing the alternate screen caused issues with less.
Basic Mac OS X integration (menu, dock, bundle) has been pushed to gedit.
Empathy was fixed to ask for password when joining a protected room (GNOME bug 579341)
The View Properties dialog of Gnumeric was converted to be instant-apply.
William Walker added provisional support for GNOME Shell magnifier service to Orca.

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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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