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Issue 168

This week… 1842 commits, in 176 projects, by 213 happy hackers (and 233 were translation commits).

Kai Willadsen changed meld to draw the currently displayed page area in the DiffMap. (GNOME bug 470729)
In Eog Felix Riemann made EXIF/XMP summaries available as a sidebar. (GNOME bug 616438)
Xavier Claessens added Windows Live oauth2 support to gnome-online-accounts. (GNOME bug 661067)
Claudio Saavedra combined the Reload and Stop toolbar buttons of Epiphany into a single one. (GNOME bug 657655)
Cosimo Cecchi did work on gnome-documents new application menu.
In Evolution Milan Crha made it possible to decrypt GPG mails with anonymous recipient set. (GNOME bug 331361)
Jonathan Matthew added extdb, a database for storing external metadata (e.g. album art images), to Rhythmbox.
Stef Walter added system prompt and prompter to gcr.
Giovanni Campagna reintroduced Wanda The Fish into gnome-shell.
Jeffrey Stedfast fixed gmime with regards to multibyte sequences split between two rfc2047 tokens.
Yasumichi Akahoshi changed Zenity documentation to use Mallard, and did new and updated screenshots to go along.
In Banshee Bertrand Lorentz added a button to go back to the list of audiobooks. (GNOME bug 656439)

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This week… 1782 commits, in 171 projects, by 230 happy hackers (and 189 were translation commits).

Philip Chimento converted Devhelp from IgeMacIntegration to GtkOSXApplication, a change necessary to build on 64-bit Macs. (GNOME bug 663789)
In rhythmbox Jonathan Matthew used some special cow powers to made password prompts work properly. (GNOME bug 666338)
In gnome-themes-standard Lapo Calamandrei continued working on unfocused window appearance, styling radio, checks, sliders, progressbars and scrollbars.
Juan A. Suarez Romero updated the shoutcast plugin in grilo-plugins to the SHOUTCast 2.0 API.
Zeeshan Ali added some UI to gnome-boxes for specifying product key (Windows XP & 2003). (GNOME bug 666030)
Alexander Larsson added support for unlinking contacts to gnome-contacts.
Jakub Steiner updated gnome-color-manager colorimeter artwork.
Alex Murray added automatic dimming / toggling to keyboard backlight to gnome-settings-daemon power plugin.
Work on the Firebird provider, by Faghmie Davids, was pushed into libgda.
In Evince Cyril Soldani added an option to show odd pages on the left in dual mode.
Andreas J. Guelzow fixed LaTeX export of cyrillic in Gnumeric. (GNOME bug 666340)
In Rygel Jens Georg added hacks for XBMC to recognize DLNA mime-types as AAC for AAC files.
Robert Roth contributed to gnome-system-monitor a patch to summarize the processor cores to be able to display sysinfo for multi-core systems with more than 13 cores. (GNOME bug 664926)
Christian Persch added a lock button the the drwright break window. (GNOME bug 128381)

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This week… 1703 commits, in 159 projects, by 210 happy hackers (and 183 were translation commits).

Steven Carr introduced support for the VNC audio tunnel extension to gtk-vnc.
Bastien Nocera updated gnome-settings-daemon to use libwacom to get tablets metadata.
A new “Change Passphrase” dialog was added to gnome-disk-utility by David Zeuthen.
Lapo Calamandrei did work on the unfocused windows appearance in gnome-themes-standard.
Jasper St. Pierre added a RSS feed to the extensions.gnome.org website.
Various client side wayland support updates by Robert Bragg made their way into cogl.
Paolo Bacchilega modified gthumb “edit metadata” dialog to allow saving the metadata without closing the dialog.
In gnome-boxes Zeeshan Ali made various improvements to the express installation of Fedora and Windows VM. (GNOME bug 665803)
In Orca Joanmarie Diggs began work on label inference (aka “label guess”) functionality for WebKitGtk content.
Zan Dobersek contributed a fix to gnome-shell to make sure the window labels are visible at all times. (GNOME bug 644861)
GMenu* support has landed into GLib.
In GTK+ Cosimo Cecchi ported GtkStatusIcon to use GtkIconHelper. (GNOME bug 665409)

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This week… 2239 commits, in 150 projects, by 214 happy hackers (and 137 were translation commits).

Heinrich Müller added flagging of individual articles in Pan. (GNOME bug 651307)
Mario Sanchez Prada replaced the adblock epiphany extension by a port of Midori adblocker, which is compatible with the EasyList subscriptions for “AdBlock Plus”. (GNOME bug 660154)
Dan Winship added server-side session cache support to glib-networking gnutls backend. (GNOME bug 636574)
Colin Walters updated gnome-settings-daemon to monitor for gnome-shell presence, and update the Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu property accordingly.
Vibha Yadav contributed support for delegation in evolution-ews. (GNOME bug 656376)
In gnome-screensaver Antoine Jacoutot implemented OpenBSD authentication using bsd_auth (instead of PAM). (GNOME bug 651554)
Seif Lotfy added a new dashboard plugin to gedit, it displays a grid of recently/most used files upon opening a new tab. (GNOME bug 663466)
Tom Tryfonidis contributed a redesign of the about: pages of Epiphany. (GNOME bug 665136)
Alan Knowles added an (experimental) xorg extension to seed.
In Orca Joanmarie Diggs added support for speech presentation of embedded object characters in WebKitGtk content.
Milan Crha added “Listen for server notifications” option to mail, address book, and calendar parts of evolution-mapi.
Rob Bradford added a first version of a “baremetal” backend for EGL on KMS to cogl.
Takeshi Kurosawa contributed support for basic vertical writing to librsvg. (GNOME bug 664533)

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