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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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