GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 1687 commits, in 167 projects, by 184 happy hackers (and 391 were translation commits).

• In Conduit, John Stowers added a new dataprovider that changes the desktop wallpaper, and suggests connecting to a flickr RSS feed…
• Sound Juicer media support has been ported from libnautilusburn to libbrasero-media. (GNOME bug 567286)
• After much testing Behdad Esfahbod removed the ClassDef->Defined field in Pango, and the associated special-handling code; he wrote “The special-casing was consuming lots of memory. EIGHT MEGABYTES for loading DejaVu Sans! While this could be complete fixed, I decided to remove the special-handling code altogether. I don’t think it will make any real difference, and if it does, we’ll fix fonts.”; in another commit he also saved over 2000 alloc calls when loading DejaVu Sans.
• Deskbar got an OpenSearch module. (GNOME bug 528184)
• Cosimo Cecchi implemented write support for the ObexFTP gvfs backend. (GNOME bug 519071)
• Following libnotify acceptance as an external dependency, Empathy got support and will now show a popup notification when receiving a new message.
• Ryan Lortie added _async functions for GDataInputStream (async versions of read_line and read_until). (GNOME bug 568575)
• file-roller got ported to use gtkbuilder instead of libglade.
• A good bunch of memory leaks were fixed in brasero.
• The Volume Control balance widget got updated to use the new GTK+ scale marks.
• Banshee got a basic clutter UI for rendering the video texture from the clutter sink in the media pipeline.
• Theppitak Karoonboonyanan went on building modules out of their source trees and filed bugs and patches against those failing, many of those issues are already fixed (in gnome-settings-daemon, Ekiga, Brasero and gnome-keyring).
• Callum McKenzie finally killed the last bit of libgnome in gnome-applets; and returned the mixer applet.
• Long standing GTK+ bug (lastly spotted in a post on Planet Gnome by Ruben Vermeersch) got nailed with a patch from Simos Xenitellis. (GNOME bug 162726)
• Rhythmbox improved its handling of transcoding format selection for MTP devices, now preferring MP3 over M4A/AAC. (GNOME bug 567524)
• Pavel Kostyuchenko work on Anjuta/Glade3 integration (part of GSoC, see project his proposal) finally got commited. (GNOME bug 542412)