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Issue 164

This week… 2089 commits, in 181 projects, by 226 happy hackers (and 320 were translation commits).

Richard Hughes added a progress bar on the calibration action page of gnome-color-manager.
Morten Welinder improved the precision of range functions in goffice.
Joanmarie Diggs removed the legacy magnification code from orca. (GNOME bug 664651)
In gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen updated the ATA smart dialog.
Erik Hartenian improved the Cantarell font, adding “extrema” to all glyphs, and making slight adjustments on a few letters.
In the gnome-control-center wacom panel Bastien Nocera split out the tablet page, so it can be reused for separate tablet configurations.
In seahorse Stef Walter added support for creating creating certificate requests as well as support for PKCS#11 key generation.
Guillaume Desmottes added a “wrong password” dialog to Empathy, used for failing GOA accounts. (GNOME bug 661640)
Milan Crha implemented fast-transfer for the address book backend of evolution-mapi.
For gnome-documents Cosimo Cecchi made a first version of GdTaggedEntry, a GtkEntry subclass to which tags can be added (and styled with CSS).
Anthony Granger updated Cheese preferences dialog to be more netbook-friendly. (GNOME bug 663146)
Jason Baron added cgroup support in the process view of gnome-system-monitor.
John Stowers updated gnome-tweak-tool to support the new GNOME Shell 3.3.x DBus interface.

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This week… 1898 commits, in 205 projects, by 226 happy hackers (and 253 were translation commits).

In libpeas Garrett Regier made it possible for all extensions to have multiple interfaces. (GNOME bug 626644)
Pedro Ferreira contributed a new chapter on keyboard events to the gtkmm documentation. (GNOME bug 661857)
In libgxps Carlos Garcia Campos added manpages for the xps manipulation command-line tools.
David Zeuthen added a new “Format Disk” dialog to gnome-disk-utility.
In gnome-boxes Marc-André Lureau added various stats (disk, network, CPU) to the machines.
Jasper St. Pierre added an “update” view to extensions.gnome.org that the Shell can check on a cron job.
Jens Georg changed rygel to batch URIs for thumbnail requests. (GNOME bug 661334)
Sjoerd Simons changed empathy to let the hardware (pulseaudio) audio source control the volume, instead of amplifying in software.
Dan Winship added support for unencrypted PKCS#8 keys to glib-networking. (GNOME bug 664321)
Cosimo Cecchi pushed a first implementation of an “Organize” dialog into gnome-documents.
In gnome-games Robert Ancell ported gnomine from C to Vala.
Hubert Figuière implemented undo for properties in Niepce.
Shaun McCance simplified docbook bibliography handling in yelp-xsl.
Nicolas Dufresne fixed glib to clear the proxy address upon retry. (GNOME bug 664141)
Mike Fleetwood added labelling of brtfs filesystems into gparted.

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This week… 1767 commits, in 177 projects, by 215 happy hackers (and 201 were translation commits).

Aurimas Černius added an option for displaying the gnote status icon in its preferences dialog. (GNOME bug 663817)
Hubert Figuière is back hacking on niepce and added support for flagging pictures, as well as importing flags from XMP files.
Florian Müllner ported mutter preferences from gconf to GSettings. (GNOME bug 635378)
In the udisks2 port of gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen made a first stab at a “Create Partition” dialog.
Nicolas Dufresne work on HW accelerated element landed in clutter-gst.
Marc-André Lureau enabled audio support for spice machines in gnome-boxes.
In Empathy Danielle Madeley made the GNOME Online Accounts optional again. (GNOME bug 663442)
In yelp-xsl Shaun McCance added new about footers for both docbook and mallard documents.
Jean Bréfort fixed the rendering of outline levels in gnumeric. (GNOME bug 663663)
In libgda Vivien Malerba made GdaHolder thread safe, and implemented the GdaLockable interface.
Frank Ziegler contributed configurable browser filters to Banshee.
Michael Meeks added some initial support for V7+ websockets to the broadway GTK+ backend.

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This week… 1522 commits, in 143 projects, by 202 happy hackers (and 179 were translation commits).

Dan Winship added API to handle redirections in libsoup.
Chris Kühl modified gnome-system-monitor to include the process name in the end and kill process dialogs. (GNOME bug 560162)
Will Thompson changed pinpoint to inhibit screensaver while fullscreened.
In seahorse Stef Walter implemented locking and unlocking of tokens.
Zeeshan Ali added basic support for creating a VM to gnome-boxes.
In cogl Robert Bragg started reducing the dependency to glib.
David Zeuthen changed gnome-disk-utility to default to formatting removable media as NTFS, noting that ideally we’d have a good filesystem for removable media but that’s not the way things work right now.
Ekaterina Gerasimova rewrote the gnome-system-log help in Mallard. (GNOME bug 658455)
In gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow improved text and hyperlinks import/export from and to ODF. (GNOME bug 663135 and GNOME bug 603533)
In gparted Curtis Gedak fixed the display of ext2/3/4 and NTFS unicode volume labels. (GNOME bug 662537)
Jean Bréfort added some optional support for EPS images into libgoffice.
Cosimo Cecchi made a first implementation of a search dropdown filter in gnome-documents.
In rhythmbox Jonathan Matthew reworked the search UI and added a source toolbar.
Carlos Garcia Campos added a serie of tools to manipulate xps files into libgxps.
Jasper St. Pierre added tab-completion to gnome-shell looking glass. (GNOME bug 661054)
Patricia Santana Cruz added camera hotplug support to the preferences dialog of Cheese. (GNOME bug 603612)

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