» 2012 » May GNOME Commit-Digest

Issue 190

This week… 1469 commits, in 159 projects, by 206 happy hackers (and 241 were translation commits).

Ray Strode ported alacarte to the latest GMenu and introspection. (GNOME bug 626220)
In gjs Jasper St. Pierre added a debugger function to retrieve the refcount of a GObject.
In gnome-settings-daemon Nicolas Dufresne changed the default touchpad deactivation to 1.0s. (GNOME bug 590783)
Valek Filippov continued improving Cyrillic coverage of cantarell-fonts.
Kjell Ahlstedt contibuted a –include-pointer command option to gnome-screenshot. (GNOME bug 594141)
Marc-André Lureau changed gnome-boxes to always show the top bar when the mouse can be grabbed. (GNOME bug 676307)
Marta Maria Casetti contributed various examples in Python to gnome-devel-docs.
In gnome-themes-standard Cosimo Cecchi improved the theming support for OSD toolbars and buttons.
Matthias Clasen changed the gnome-control-center user accounts panel to use libpwquality for password handling. (GNOME bug 676396)
In Nautilus William Jon McCann added a way to create a new directory from a selection. (GNOME bug 676432)
Florian Müllner added a generic –mode switch to gnome-shell, to be used by gdm, initial-setup, or others. (GNOME bug 676156)
Michael Hill added the beginning of a new administrator guide into gnome-user-docs.
Jonathan Matthew added a new podcast search infrastructure and podcast subscription dialog in Rhythmbox.
Piotr Piastucki improved inline highlighting performances in Meld.

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This week… 1593 commits, in 201 projects, by 233 happy hackers (and 319 were translation commits).

In Pitivi Jean-François Fortin Tam merged the ges (GStreamer Editing Services) branch.
Xan Lopez added support for Do Not Track into Epiphany.
William Jon McCann redesigned gnome-control-center universal access panel for consistency and smallness. (GNOME bug 665588)
Florian Müllner added a simple application menu to gucharmap. (GNOME bug 674952)
Fabrice Bellet contributed a fix to Vino to use XFixes to provide the correct cursor image. (GNOME bug 492033)
Sébastien Wilmet changed gtksourceview to use a GResource for the XML description of its completion UI. (GNOME bug 674643)
Joseph Scheuhammer contributed brightness and contrast functionality to gnome-shell magnifier. (GNOME bug 639851)
Debarshi Ray updated gnome-online-accounts to set the Accept-Language header, so the Facebook login page appears in the correct language.
Danielle Madeley revamped empathy roster window menu, converting it into an application menu.
Chenthill Palanisamy added the possibility to send mails through groupwise SOAP protocol to evolution-groupwise.
David Zeuthen did various improvements to the gnome-disk-utility SMART dialog.
In Evolution Milan Crha added year scrolling to the date picker. (GNOME bug 206484)
Craig Keogh added support for a systemmodule tag to JHBuild. (GNOME bug 669554)
Alexandre Prokoudine replaced various GIMP filters by GEGL operations.

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This week… 1323 commits, in 145 projects, by 199 happy hackers (and 221 were translation commits).

Florian Müllner added a minimal application menu to gnome-dictionary.
Jakub Steiner incorporated redesigned glyphs by Valek Filippov into cantarell-fonts.
In gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow fixed read and write of rich-text graph titles to/from ODF (GNOME bug 675821)
Steven Garcia added support for PHP in Dia code generation tool.
Cosimo Cecchi added an application menu for the interactive window of gnome-screenshot. (GNOME bug 674947)
The gnome-control-center gained an animated notebook, thanks to Bastien Nocera and gtk-clutter.
In Empathy Xavier Claessens added a pointer to a fallback server for Windows Live Messenger accounts.
Milan Crha made the subject field in Evolution composer window support spellchecking. (GNOME bug 200683)
Tiffany Antopolski contributed comments to many of the vala examples in gnome-devel-docs.
In gnome-boxes Zeeshan Ali improved the naming of new virtual machines. (GNOME bug 674328)
In GTK+ Benjamin Otte reduced the complexity of the icon view sizing code, and redid its layouting.
Richard Hughes changed gnome-packagekit to use a prettier, smaller, info panel.
In gdm Ray Strode enabled smooth transition between plymouth and X. (GNOME bug 572173)

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This week… 2665 commits, in 201 projects, by 227 happy hackers (and 357 were translation commits).

Sergey V. Udaltsov removed unneeded xmodmap support from libgnomekbd. (GNOME bug 674874)
Ludovic Ferrandis added a Connman based Context Manager to gupnp. (GNOME bug 672998)
Christian Persch landed many updates to gnome-terminal, port to GSettings, application menu, and more.
Speaking of application menu, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro added one to gstranslator.
Perumal Viravan contributed a new documentation for the lightsoff game, using Mallard, of course.
In gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen added a Disk Image Mounter utility, and associated it with ISO files, for easy mounting from Nautilus.
Bastien Nocera added a setting to disable middle click pastes in GTK+. (GNOME bug 665243)
In orca Joanmarie Diggs began preparations for moving to Python 3.
Cosimo Cecchi gave a new GNOME 3 style interface to gnome-font-viewer, complete with an overview and an application menu.
Matt McCutchen fixed evolution-data-server to limit accepted bad certificates to the expected hostnames. (GNOME bug 606181)
Paolo Borelli added support for the new location of the gtk bookmarks file to gedit.

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