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Issue 55

This week… 1781 commits, in 178 projects, by 250 happy hackers (and 298 were translation commits).

A fullscreen mode has been added to xchat-gnome (GNOME bug 445638).
Jonh Wendell added the ability to use JPEG compression (thus lossy encoding) to vinagre. (GNOME bug 573272)
Evince has been changed to always use a different process for every document.
Eog got support for animated images, it plays animated images as supported by GdkPixbufAnimation (GNOME bug 335093).
gnome-pilot was ported to GtkBuilder, and removed most of its usage of libgnomeui.
Empathy removed its applets (megaphone, nothere) and Python bindings of libempathy and libempathy-gtk, on the premise they were unused and applications should use telepathy-glib, and a future telepathy-gtk, via gobject-introspection.
Colin Walters updated the GNOME Shell to use a stable ordering for well-known icons in the notification area (volume, battery, network…). (GNOME bug 598313)
Brasero got changed to no longer store some settings with GConf anymore (like window size or position of widgets) but to save and load them using GKeyFile instead.
Thomas Thurman worked quite a lot on the “cowbell” metacity branch, to allow styling of window borders using CSS, he also posted a status update.
Ray Strode made DeviceKit-power optional in gdm.
GNOME Disk Utility got handling of LUKS volumes.
Martyn Rucell updated the Totem tracker plugin to the new (0.7) tracker API.
Paolo Bacchilega added PackageKit support to File Roller, so it will now prompt for new packages when opening archives that require an uninstalled tool.

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This week… 2078 commits, in 184 projects, by 233 happy hackers (and 438 were translation commits).

The new GtkFileSystemModel worked by Benjamin Otte and Federico Mena Quintero has been pushed to GTK+.
Also in GTK+, a new GtkSpinner widget has been commited. (GNOME bug 319607)
libsoup was changed to allow multiple pending connections to a server at once, as only allowing a single connection attempt at once really slows down pages with lots of subresources on servers that disallow persistent connections. (GNOME bug 594768)
gdm has been converted from using gnome-power-manager to DeviceKit-power. (GNOME bug 596569)
Jason Clinton pushed the Clutter rewrite of the Nibbles game, done by Guillaume Beland during his summer of code.
Vinagre has been updated to keep the aspect ratio when using scaling mode. (GNOME bug 593192)
Jason Childs added support for transparent objects in dia, by adding alpha to the Color structure. (GNOME bug 591525)
Devhelp has been modified to look for an existing local copy of documents referred by their library.gnome.org location. (GNOME bug 598598)
xml2po has been fixed to work with parallel builds. (GNOME bug 593175)
Balsa, Gimp and goffice were all ported to compile fine with GSEAL enabled.

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Tags: balsa, devhelp, dia, gdm, gimp, gnome-games, goffice, gtk+, libsoup, vinagre, xml2po

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This week… 1940 commits, in 179 projects, by 246 happy hackers (and 367 were translation commits).

Nautilus gained a “copy anyway” option in the error dialog it displays when there is not enough space on the destination. (GNOME bug 324361)
Richard Hugues probably added Super Cow Powers to gnome-packagekit, carefully hiding this fact in 50 commits with “Moo”, or a slight variation, as commit message.
Ryan Lortie merged the various dconf* utilities in a single “dconf” tool, also he added API documentation.
The gtk-2.90 branch was created and saw the removal of many deprecated widgets and functions.
Devhelp got a new fullscreen mode, mostly thanks to code from gedit.
In Evolution Matthew Barnes finally got pane size restoration to play nicely with maximised windows. (GNOME bug 593612)
gok has been migrated to use GtkBuilder instead of libglade. (GNOME bug 582504)
gvfs has been fixed to display the overwrite dialog when restoring already existing files from trash. (GNOME bug 596618)
Rhythmbox has been ported to use gnome-session for inhibition support, inhibiting the session to go idle (thus preventing gnome-power-manager from suspending the computer due to inactivity). (GNOME bug 596573)
Marina Zhurakhinskaya extented GNOME Shell application search to match on menu categories. (GNOME bug 597153)

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This week… 2015 commits, in 171 projects, by 239 happy hackers (and 242 were translation commits).

Robin Sonefors contributed a prime factorization function to gcalctool (GNOME bug 563217).
Evolution got rid of all the deprecated GTK+ symbols it used (GNOME bug 572348).
Pascal Terjan ported the Pidgin nautilus-sendto plugin to use Pidgin D-Bus API (GNOME bug 597039).
GNOME Shell added a calendar pop-down to the clock (GNOME bug 596432).
Sound Juicer has been converted to use the Inhibit interface from gnome-session (GNOME bug 596570).
Vinagre got configurable depth support (in the “depth” branch, to be merged once a new gtk-vnc release gets out). (GNOME bug 485204)
Thanks to the efficient scrollback store in vte 0.22 Christian Persch added support for unlimited scrollback to gnome-terminal.
Nautilus gained a checkbox for not assocating a filetype on open with. (GNOME bug 92497)
Ryan Lortie commited GSettings property binding support and a GValue serialiser into the gsettings glib branch.
Empathy fixed its handling of fallback HTML files in Adium themes. (GNOME bug 596303)

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