GNOME Commit-Digest

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.