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Issue 142

This week… 1645 commits, in 151 projects, by 203 happy hackers (and 270 were translation commits).

Tom Callaway ported Emerillon to GTK+ 3. (GNOME bug 649403)
Richard Hughes added methods to control the backlight on each output in libgnome-desktop, to be used by the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin.
Jon Nordby added introspection support to gegl-gtk.
In Caribou Eitan Isaacson converted layout files to XML and made use of XSLT to make keyboard definitions easier.
Bastien Nocera added the Chat account type to gnome-online-accounts and implemented it in the Google backend.
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse contributed a patch to libgtop to make CPU load retrieval work on OpenBSD.
Alexander Larsson had some initial work done on an edit mode for gnome-contacts.
A prototype of integration with the GNOME Online Accounts service has been added to Evolution by Matthew Barnes.
Claudio Saavedra replaced the custom dbus-glib activation and uniqueness code of Epiphany by the use of GtkApplication.
In gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow improved import/export of repeating rows from/to ODF files.
Kevin Kofler contributed support for looking up Plasma services in GNOME PackageKit.
Ray Strode made the gdm daemon use gnome-session session files instead of autostart.

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This week… 2058 commits, in 165 projects, by 243 happy hackers (and 160 were translation commits).

Vinicius Depizzol adapted the website footer to support selection of languages when available.
Rodrigo Moya made the calendar backend of evolution-couchdb work with latest evolution-data-server.
Luiz Armesto added appindicator support to billreminder.
In gnome-utils GNOME Screenshot was updated to flash the area of the screen that is captured.
Giovanni Campagna added support for converting JS Arrays to C arrays of any type, not just integers as before in gjs. (GNOME bug 646632)
In gdm Ray Strode exported a library for being a greeter, this will make it easier for people to write external greeters.
Alexander Larsson made gnome-contacts track phone status on IM presence.
In yelp-xsl Shaun McCance added accessible titles on notes in DocBook and Mallard. (GNOME bug 613267)
Andreas J. Guelzow improved support for export to xslx in Gnumeric.
Rodrigo Moya added a new ‘Formats’ tab in the region settings panel.
Robert Nordan contributed the possibility of mass exporting to HTML of Tomboy notes. (GNOME bug 356871)
In GTK+ Benjamin Otte implemented support for multiple border colors.
Joanmarie Diggs removed magnification settings from Orca, as it’s now controlled by gnome-shell mag and the Universal Access tools. (GNOME bug 652241)

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This week… 2184 commits, in 181 projects, by 241 happy hackers (and 323 were translation commits).

In tomboy Alex Tereschenko added a new addin for removing broken links from notes.
Alexander Larsson worked on various things in gnome-contacts, including an initial cut at new details field layout with buttons and some work on notes support.
Eitan Isaacson introduced a GTK+ 3 input method module into Caribou.
Support for long press detection has been added to Clutter by Emmanuele Bassi.
In Planner Caolan McNamara added a display of the date in status bar for resource usage view as well as in the Gantt view.
Cosimo Cecchi contributed various fixes and improvements to the dark variant of Adwaita.
David King removed the bookmarks side panel of Vinagre.
John Stowers added annotations for default values in theme combo boxes of the GNOME Tweak Tool.
Xan Lopez added suggestions to correct misspellings to the context menu when right-clicking on a misspelled word in Epiphany.
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort merged the new log window into Empathy.
In GNOME Subtitles Pedro Castro added initial support for splitting and merging subtitles.
Philip Withnall removed the old authentication API of libgdata in favour of a new GDataAuthorizer API, and added an OAuth 1.0 authoriser. (GNOME bug 646285)
Paolo Bacchilega ported goobox to GtkApplication.
Guillaume Desmottes added a Telepathy Approver and Handler into GNOME Shell, this will make the Empathy tray icon stop blicking when receiving new channels.
Richard Hughes added optional colord support to the CUPS print module of GTK+.

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This week… 1760 commits, in 183 projects, by 233 happy hackers (and 306 were translation commits).

Torsten Schönfeld unified the index handling in argument marshalling in perl-Glib-Object-Introspection.
Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula contributed a new gnome shell extension, to add a GNOME2-like menu on the panel.
Vincent Povirk added a new game, eliminator, to Aisleriot, discussion on code and rules happened in GNOME bug 637030.
Vincent Untz fixed a security issue in gdm, nullifying URI scheme handlers.
In Epiphany Sergio Villar Senin added a about:plugins page, to show the list of installed plugins. (GNOME bug 575498)
Paolo Bacchilega added code to disable the screensaver when playing videos or slideshows in GThumb.
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller added video only encoding in Transmageddon.
Support for an orientation lock has been added the gnome-settings-daemon orientation plugin.
Florian Müllner simplified handling of removed workspaces in GNOME Shell.
Iain Lane switched Tomboy from NDesk Dbus to dbus-sharp.
Ryan Lortie implemented pointer sized bitlocks in glib, including an hand-coded assembly version for x86. (GNOME bug 651467)

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