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Issue 51

This week… 2610 commits, in 209 projects, by 286 happy hackers (and 539 were translation commits).

The Perl bindings written by Emmanuel Rodriguez have been merged into libchamplain.
A branch by Alexander Sack reworking NetworkManager menu has been uploaded (it is named “menu-rework”).
Mark Kasik added support for the ‘auth-info’ attribute to the CUPS print backend of GTK+ (GNOME bug 566522).
Deprecated GTK+ symbols have been removed from gok (GNOME bug 572686).
Ryan Lortie published a gsettings branch of Devhelp, demonstrating the conversion from GConf to GSettings.
GNOME Shell has been updated to not treat 1024×600 as widescreen (GNOME bug 596375).
The GNOME Volume Control has been changed to allow going up to 150% for output volume (GNOME bug 591285).
Brasero has been fixed to not leak the CD drive device file descriptor, that kept the drive locked. (GNOME bug 596241)
Evolution has been changed to use Message-ID instead of Message-Id, for increased compatibility with other applications (GNOME bug 596157).
Ross Burton switched evolution-data-server calendar to D-Bus instead of Bonobo, in the “dbus-calendar” branch.

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This week… 2699 commits, in 227 projects, by 271 happy hackers (and 1213 were translation commits).

This is the week before the 2.28.0 and translators are working like crazy, Maithili support literally jumped from 43% to 55%, Asturian also jumped, progressing of 8 points; Galician, German and Hungarian all reached 100% of UI strings translated.
Brasero got event sound support, sounds will be played when a CD finished burning. (GNOME bug 594954)
A new WebSharing extension has been added to F-Spot.
Ryan Lortie added a D-Bus service for dconf (GNOME bug 595479).
Epiphany gained back its context menu, thanks to the new WebKitHitTestResult support in WebKit.
Nemiver gained support for editing breakpoint condition.
Evolution got rid of its dependency on libgnome and libgnomeui, Matthew Barnes blogged on how Evolution is now 100% Bonobo free. (GNOME bug 567283)
Screen locking on suspend or hibernate has been fixed in gnome-session (GNOME bug 595154)
XChat-GNOME got an option to hide its statusbar (GNOME bug 524030).
GNOME Shell has been updated to make the run dialog and “looking glass” debug console work in the overview. (GNOME bug 595116)
David Zeuthen added GObject introspection support to PolkitGtk.

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This week… 2529 commits, in 212 projects, by 272 happy hackers (and 838 were translation commits).

We are approaching the 2.28.0 release and with freezes in place translators are now the heavy contributors, highlights of this week are the Serbian and Catalan teams, increasing their completion status by over five percents, and the Portuguese and Spanish teams, achieving 100% translated strings for the UI.
A new “Auto DJ” feature has been contributed to Banshee, it will add new randomly selected tracks to the play queue when it gets empty (GNOME bug 565767)
Kupfer, a simple launcher in the style of Gnome Do, added a new Calculator plugin and a new “Rename To…” action.
Vincent Untz updated gnome-menus and gnome-panel to work with the new X-GNOME-FullName .desktop key.
Rygel added support for publishing thumbnails of media items. (GNOME bug 590702)
Alexander Larsson did some GObject performance work (in the glib gobject-performance branch), improving the speed of instance creation for classes that do not have properties, and the interface lookup algorithm.
Brasero got a new “introspection” branch where support for gobject introspection is developed.
The display order of files in Eye of GNOME, that was broken for some locales, has been fixed by Felix Riemann. (GNOME bug 594403)
The adblock Epiphany extension has been updated to work with Epiphany/webkit, Xan Lopez blogged this and other Epiphany features. (GNOME bug 562762)

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Tags: banshee, brasero, eog, epiphany, glib, gnome-menus, gnome-panel, kupfer, rygel

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This week… 2207 commits, in 200 projects, by 262 happy hackers (and 654 were translation commits).

Michael Natterer added support for layer trees in Gimp, the UI still needs to be improved but there is now a Folder button in the layers dialog. (GNOME bug 86337)
Totem browser plugin now overrides the HTTP user-agents for Quicktime and Windows Media Player, this fixes playback of the Apple trailers. (GNOME bug 375867)
David Zeuthen started a “new-ui” branch to rework the UI of libgdu-gtk and palimpset.
Brasero has been fixed to not use readcd (-clone) to copy audio CD, as it doesn’t keep CD-TEXT. (GNOME bug 580813)
Epiphany gained back its “view source” command. (GNOME bug 503968)
A new g_mkstemp_full() function has been added to glib, to expose more parameters than g_mkstemp(), allowing more flexibility when creating temporary files. (GNOME bug 594034)
In Gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow added handling of ODF import/export of surface plots originally created in Excel. (GNOME bug 594041)
Matthew Barnes updated the “mailing-list-actions”, “save-calendar” and “publish-calendar” evolution plugins to the bonobo-liberated Evolution.
On the same topic Lucian Langa started porting evolution-rss for the new Evolution.

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