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Issue 77

This week… 3046 commits, in 229 projects, by 308 happy hackers (and 1235 were translation commits).

Another big week for translators, German, Bulgarian, Portuguese and Solvenian are now totally translated, 33 teams are over the 90% bar, and 55 over the 70% bar. This week award goes to the Asturian, progressing by over 4 points.
XChat-GNOME got a fullscreen mode. (GNOME bug 445638)
Glade has been switched to use the new GtkToolPalette widget, instead of a custom widget (GNOME bug 613956); Tristan Van Berkom wrote about it in The Glade palette goes full circle.
Ryan Lortie merged the GVariant parser into glib. (GNOME bug 600271)
The font plugin of gnome-settings-daemon has been disabled. (GNOME bug 613604)
GNOME Shell has been updated so that ejecting drives will run the same action as in Nautilus. (GNOME bug 613405)
Jiří Techet changed libchamplain so it cancels the download of tiles that get out of the viewport.
Vivien Malerba added support for variables in GdaBrowser data manager.
Support for GObject Introspection has been added to gtk-vnc, as well as a sample javascript demo program.

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This week… 2398 commits, in 234 projects, by 289 happy hackers (and 834 were translation commits).

The 2.30 release is approaching fast and translators are hard at work, French and Russian are already totally translated, and 30 teams are over the 90% bar. The most impressive progress this week has been the Lithuanian team, coordinated by Gintautas Miliauskas, that improved from 84 to 89%.
Banshee lyrics plugin got support for the lyricsplugin.com database. (GNOME bug 612958)
The GNOME Keyring has been fixed not to store session keyring on disk. (GNOME bug 612977)
Daniel P. Berrange worked hard on gtk-vnc, substanctally improving and modernising the code.
GNOME Volume Control got a speaker testing UI, Bastien Nocera blogged about it in Speaker testing. (GNOME bug 519438)
Yelp 3.0 branch got support for a basic “back” button.
Thanks to a patch by Marc Deslauriers GNOME Power Manager got support to communicate with GNOME Screensaver running as a D-Bus service. (GNOME bug 609031)
Andrea Cimitan added a new option to the Murrine theme engine to draw smooth separators.
The GNOME Shell has been changed to use a single button to toggle between linear and grid view. (GNOME bug 610801)
The VTE library got introspection support. (GNOME bug 604837)

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This week… 2144 commits, in 230 projects, by 307 happy hackers (and 681 were translation commits).

Banshee got a new Youtube extension (GNOME bug 576666).
Nautilus has been changed to load tracker/beagle at runtime. (GNOME bug 589345)
Support for GObject introspection has been added to gnome-menus (GNOME bug 598406)
gnome-settings-daemon got its code to eject removable media rewritten to use gio (instead of spawning the eject command). (GNOME bug 580779)
GNOME Shell has been updated to support and require Clutter 1.2 (GNOME bug 610679)
Yelp, in its yelp-3-0 branch, got a new ocation dropdown, with two-line entries, displaying both title and description. Shaun McCance blogged about this change in More Yelp 3.0 Location Entry.
David Zeuten added rudimentary support for loop files to GNOME Disk Utility. (screenshot)
To follow up on the usabiltiy report Empathy was changed to sort contacts by state and to show offline contacts by default (GNOME bug 612338).
Milan Bouchet-Valat added support for password (un)locking to system-tools-backends.
Dan Williams modified the network manager applet to handle and show access technology for GSM connections (GSM, GPRS, UMTS, etc.)
Evince has been updated to use monitor height instead of screen height to calculate page scale in presentation mode; this fixes the presentation mode in dual head setups. (GNOME bug 608924)

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This week… 2390 commits, in 220 projects, by 281 happy hackers (and 708 were translation commits).

Empathy made URL some people put in their contact status clickable right from the contact list (GNOME bug 525576)
Hiroyuki Ikezoe updated gpointing-device-settings to support a speed property.
The cairo branch has been merged into gjs.
Snowy (the webservice companion of Tomboy) has been updated to use UTC as internal time representation, to avoid dealing with different timezones.
Jean Bréfort implemented round rectangles, arrow heads for arcs and spline support for polyline and polygons in goffice canvas.
Jürg Billeter updated tracker to refuse updates when low on disk scape.
The libgnomekbd layout indicator has been changed to use the default font family and size, instead of hardcoding Helvetica. (GNOME bug 610544)
Richard Hugues pushed a color-management branch to GTK+, implemening an optional LCMS GIO module, and GtkColorEngine, GtkColorTransform and GtkColorProfile.
gcalctool has been changed to show bit editor for numbers not in base 10.
Jesse van den Kieboom implemented a new words completion word finder method in gtksourceview, as the previous version was buggy and a lot of bookkeeping.
GNOME Power Manager has been changed to play a sound loop if the charge of a laptop battery or UPS reaches a critical level.

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