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Issue 194

This week… 1377 commits, in 160 projects, by 197 happy hackers (and 247 were translation commits).

Christian Hergert changed gnome-desktop to draw monitor labels with rounded corners. (GNOME bug 591025)
In gcr Stef Walter reworked how DER pasing works.
Alexander Larsson added fast approximations of x^2.4 and x^(1/2.4) to speed up gamma conversion in babl. (GNOME bug 678318)
Lionel Landwerlin added touch events support in Clutter. (GNOME bug 678278)
In dia Hans Breuer fixed some SVG import error.
Seif Lotfy changed Empathy to show popular contacts in the “Top Contacts” group. (GNOME bug 678083)
Giovanni Campagna updated gnome-shell to sort wifi networks by strength. (GNOME bug 658946)
Carlos Garcia Campos landed the WebKit2 port of Epiphany.
Aurimas Černius added a WebDav sync addin to gnote.
In gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen added a settings dialog for power management and acoustic levels.
In gnome-control-center Thomas Bechtold contributed the possibility to find connections for a specific MAC address. (GNOME bug 677899)
Giovanni Campagna ported the clock from gnome-panel to modern GNOME technologies (gsettings, new libgweather, GDateTime). (GNOME bug 677512)
Paolo Bacchilega changed file-roller to be able to run as a D-Bus service as well (org.gnome.ArchiveManager1).

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This week… 1400 commits, in 146 projects, by 190 happy hackers (and 191 were translation commits).

Jon Dowland updated sound-juicer to use musicbrainz 5. (GNOME bug 676749)
Jeffrey Stedfast fixed decoding of some RFC 2184 parameters in gmime.
David Zeuthen updated gnome-disk-utility to show sample size and number of samples for benchmarks.
Sergio Villar Senin fixed libsoup to not accept cookies for well known public domains. (GNOME bug 673802)
Jeremy Whiting made libzeitgeist a hard dependency of folks. (GNOME bug 677428)
Guillaume Desmottes landed a new roster view into Empathy.
Christophe Fergeau added the possibility to disable SSL checks in librest. (GNOME bug 663786)
In gnome control center Stef Walter implemented enterprise logins in add dialog. (GNOME bug 677548)
Bastien Nocera changed gnome shell to always enable accessibility. (GNOME bug 678095)
Eslam Mostafa updated gnome-clocks to respect the 12/24h global settings.
In Meld Kai Willadsen added support for opening new tabs from D-Bus. (GNOME bug 616466)
Cosimo Cecchi updated Nautilus to allow dropping of files to bookmarks. (GNOME bug 645353)

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This week… 1757 commits, in 162 projects, by 200 happy hackers (and 252 were translation commits).

Daniel Drake added a disable-mouse-button-modifiers message to metacity, to be used in Sugar to disable mouse button modifiers. (GNOME bug 677115)
Christophe Fergeau fixed librest to avoid an infinite loop when passing wrong HTTP credentials. (GNOME bug 658937)
In gnome-media Sebastien Bacher fixed the gnome sound recorder to properly open the control center sound panel. (GNOME bug 667402)
In Evince Christian Persch added new APIs to load from streams and GFile. (GNOME bug 654832)
Paolo Bacchilega added the possibility for goobox to use libcoverart to fetch CD covers.
Milan Crha fixed the “mark as junk” functionality in evolution-ews. (GNOME bug 654543)
Bastian Winkler ported GtkGrid into Clutter, as a new ClutterGridLayout layout manager. (GNOME bug 677372)
Matthew Barnes landed the account-mgmt branches of evolution and evolution-data-server, a migration guide is available.
Richard Hughes changed gnome-settings-daemon updates plugin to automatically download updates rather than installing them.
Adel Gadllah updated gnome-shell to not display non urgent notifications while in fullscreen. (GNOME bug 677590)
Debarshi Ray merged SkyDrive support into gnome-documents. (GNOME bug 666535)

This week… 1236 commits, in 206 projects, by 193 happy hackers (and 270 were translation commits).

Andy Spencer added a compass rose to the grits virtual globe library.
Bastian Winkler contributed support for optional transformation functions to pygobject. (GNOME bug 676169)
Rui Matos changed gnome-settings-daemon to apply XKB layouts by itself, and stop relying on libgnomekbd. (GNOME bug 676102)
Giovanni Campagna modified gnome-shell to show notifications for failed VPN connections. (GNOME bug 676330)
In glib Christian Persch added D-Bus register and unregister hooks to GApplication. (GNOME bug 675509)
Jonathan Matthew fixed the –set-rating command of rhythmbox-client. (GNOME bug 677318)
Paolo Bacchilega added an application menu to file-roller.
Taryn Fox added a serie of javascript examples to gnome-devel-docs.
Bastien Nocera added a new menu button widget to GTK+, as used in Totem and gnome-contacts. (GNOME bug 668013)
Emmanuele Bassi added a new “stopped” signal to Clutter timeline object. (GNOME bug 676854)

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