GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 2276 commits, in 205 projects, by 233 happy hackers (and 504 were translation commits).

• Handling of contacts in Empathy has been switched to use libfolks, this will enable future enhanchements, such as support for metacontacts. (GNOME bug 623714)
• Carlos Garcia Campos ported the byzanz applet to use the new D-Bus based panel applet library.
• Gtk-vnc has switched over to use GIO for socket connections and DNS resolution.
• Giovanni Campagna contributed a base API for system status indicators in GNOME Shell. (GNOME bug 621705)
• James Liggett implemented a tags pane in the Anjuta git plugin.
• In the ongoing transitions, Nautilus has been ported to GSettings, Eog has been switched to GTK+ 3, and accounts-dialog is being ported to gdbus.
• Preliminary support for adding new annotations (at the moment only Text annotations are supported) has been added to Evince. (GNOME bug 168304)
• Toms Bauģis changed hamster search to use SQLite full text search.
• David Pellicer contributed a few more keyboard layouts to Caribou.
• The function name completion tooltips used in Gnumeric have been improved by Andreas J. Guelzow.
• Evolution-rss default renderer has been switched to be WebKit.
• Nate Stedman merged his branch adding suport for themes in Ease.
• Benjamin Otte continued stripping GTK+ of old GDK drawing functions and classes (GdkPangoRenderer, GdkGC…).
• Richard Hughes split off a new libcolor-glib library out of gnome-color-manager.
• Totem youtube plugin has been updated to work after the latest Youtube page format changes.
• In GSOC land Jamie Nicol has added to Rhythmbox the possibility to scrobble to both Last.fm and Libre.fm, Michal Hruby ported zeitgeist-datahub to Vala, Karlo Jež added a hover menu for quick task manipulation in Getting Things GNOME, and more…