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Issue 73

This week… 2327 commits, in 209 projects, by 299 happy hackers (and 739 were translation commits).

libgda got initial support for GObject Introspection, thanks to Daniel Espinosa.
Empathy conversation logger can now be run as a separate process (GNOME bug 518414)
Zenity got a –color-selection switch, to display a color selection dialog. (GNOME bug 540169)
GNOME Screensaver got a control center extension panel, but it got reverted, most likely for the next release.
Brasero drive selection widget has been fixed to be usable from GtkBuilder (GNOME bug 608170)
Some minimal support for checking certificates has been added to Epiphany (GNOME bug 600663)
GNOME Shell got notifications to point to windows demanding attention (via the urgency hint) (GNOME bug 610594)
gnote has been changed to allow user to decide if links are updated when renaming a note. (GNOME bug 584789)
gcalctool was chaned to allow hexadecimal numbers to be entered in lower-case.
Carlos Garcia Campos pushed a bonobo-less branch of the GNOME Panel, porting both gnome-panel and libpanel-applet to D-Bus. (GNOME bug 572131)

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This week… 2115 commits, in 218 projects, by 260 happy hackers (and 629 were translation commits).

Colin Walters optmized function invocation in gjs (GNOME bug 604076).
Also in gjs, Johan Dahlin pushed the beginning of a module wrapping cairo.
In GNOME Shell Floran Müllner added fading out of the desktop icons when showing the overview. (GNOME bug 600999)
Gnumeric got a fix on the way it uses to store floading point values in ODF. (GNOME bug 610372)
Tomas Bzatek fixed gvfs to correctly store ssh/sftp passwords in the keyring, when requested. (GNOME bug 580024)
gparted has been changed to indicate required software packages if unable to read file system (GNOME bug 576908)
gcalctool documentation has been rewritten in the new Mallard format.
Rygel has been updated to support uploading, this works in both standalone and Tracker backends.
Lapo Calamamandrei added the last two missing navigation icons (home and jump) to the new GNOME Icon Theme.
Kupfer got a plugin that makes it able to look inside compressed archives.
Alexander Kojevnikov implemented support for the media art storage specification to Banshee (to be honest, a simplified version of the proposal). (GNOME bug 520516)

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This week… 2149 commits, in 179 projects, by 319 happy hackers (and 557 were translation commits).

Sven Herzberg cleaned up gnome-launch-box, removing libgnome, libgnomeui, gnome-vfs dependencies, and more; in the same cleaning vein Javier Jardón updated gnome-hello and ghex.
Mutter merged a lot of Metacity changes, including the usage of libcanberra to play system bell and workspace switch sounds (GNOME bug 609585).
Adel Gadllah replaced the workspace switcher popup of GNOME Shell (which was still the old metacity popup), with a clutter based one, which fits better into the overall shell design. (GNOME bug 609187)
Also in GNOME Shell Maxim Ermilov added an “InfoBar” and undo capabilities to overview, it allows to show some information to the user and to undo his actions. (GNOME bug 608933)
The Postasa plugin, to support uploading images to PicasaWeb using libgdata, has ben added to eog-plugins. (GNOME bug 600190)
The Accounts dialog of Empathy has been seperated into its own program which works with the Gnome preferences and control center, this also supports embedding the preferences dialog in the “extensible-shell” control center.
Jose Millan Soto added back support for print preview in Epiphany (GNOME bug 609021)
The Magnatune rhythmbox plugin saw many improvements thanks to Adam Zimmerman.

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This week… 1643 commits, in 181 projects, by 231 happy hackers (and 348 were translation commits).

Quinten Lansu provided a patch for Eye of GNOME to make it possible to select a random image from the collection.
Banshee dropped both his glade and libgnome (well, gnome-sharp) dependencies. (GNOME bug 589705 and GNOME bug 587320)
David Zeuthen implemented Expansion for Linux’s MD RAID, there are even screenshots.
Vinagre got the necessary support to specify an username for SSH connections. (GNOME bug 603736)
Thanks to Jorge Silva a spanish keyboard layout got added to Caribou, the new onscreen keyboard (GNOME bug 608744)
Accounts-dialog got a better password strength indicator.
GNOME-PackageKit got support for the InstallPrinterDrivers command.
The GVariant serialiser has been merged into glib.
Kupfer gained the possibility to load plugins at runtime.
In Nanny Cesar Garcia Tapia added a new dialog to update custom filters, and support for packaged filters configurations.

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