GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 2432 commits, in 191 projects, by 260 happy hackers (and 292 were translation commits).

• Many modules started adopting GTK+ 3 (GNOME Desktop, GNOME Settings Daemon, GNOME Color Manager, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Control Center, Goocanvas, Totem), sometimes keeping compatibility with GTK+ 2.x, (like VTE, gucharmap, GNOME Games, librsvg and GNOME Terminal).
• Shaun McCance added “Copy Code Block” and “Save Code Black As” to code snippets in Yelp, he wrote about the feature in Yelp and the DOM.
• The volume control “applet” has been changed to use symbolic icons (GNOME bug 614212), to complete this Jakub Steiner added such icons for microphone levels. (GNOME bug 621175)
• Johan Dahlin added a “promise” module to gjs, to provide a better API for supporting asynchronous code. (GNOME bug 608450)
• Grilo got a gravatar plugin, it is used to distribute an artist-avatar/author-avater attribute if either “artist” or “author” fields contain a valid email.
• Totem has been updated to use a dark theme and symbolic icons. (GNOME bug 617921)
• Ryan Lortie added dconf-editor to the dconf module.
• Jonathan Matthew implemented the MPRIS D-Bus specification in Rhythmbox (GNOME bug 618520), MPRIS defines a common D-Bus interface for media players.
• Harold Schreckengost contributed a new F-Spot topic based help.
• Felix Kaser added a new “EmpathyLiveSearch” widget in Empathy, used to dynamically filter the main window contact list.
• In GNOME Control Center Thomas Wood converted the display capplet to a settings panel.
• Andreas J. Guelzow added a search function to the function selector of Gnumeric. (GNOME bug 495776)
• In the GNOME Shell Florian Müllner added a fade effect when overing over items of the dash. (GNOME bug 620782)
• Abderrahim Kitouni added a plugin to support Vala to Anjuta. (GNOME bug 620757)
• William Jon McCann improved the performance of the GDM greeter (GNOME bug 621045)
• In Summer of Code land, Alexander Saprykin wrote a tiny parser for CMML files, so libcmml won’t be necessary for chapter support in Totem; Yuvi Panda made photo, video and burst modes of Cheese work in his Vala port; Michal Hruby wrote a Rhythmbox plugin using Zeitgeist; and more.