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Issue 212

This week… 1733 commits, in 182 projects, by 192 happy hackers (and 228 were translation commits).

Shaun McCance implemented side-by-side link tiles in yelp-xsl.
Emmanuele Bassi added typed initializers to json-glib.
Bastien Nocera changed Totem to use scaletempo instead of soundpitch plugin.
In gnome-shell-extensions Giovanni Campagna updated the alternative-status-menu extension.
Matthias Clasen made zeitgeist optional again in folks.
Jordi Mas added two new calculation games to gbrainy.
In gnome-documents Cosimo Cecchi added a notification when indexing remote documents takes a long time. (GNOME bug 660507)
In gnome-boxes Alexander Larsson moved the “force shutdown” from the app menu to the properties view.
Dan Winship ported glib-networking and libsoup to use GTask.
Stefano Facchini added support for styling the dragged header in GTK+ tree view. (GNOME bug 684980)
In pygobject Martin Pitt removed static MainLoop, MainContext, and some GSource bindings as they are now properly introspectable. (GNOME bug 686443)
Emmanuel Pacaud added support for viewport-fill, viewport-opacity, and enable-background properties to lasem.
In glib Colin Walters made g_variant_new_from_bytes() public. (GNOME bug 677062)

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This week… 2002 commits, in 189 projects, by 218 happy hackers (and 382 were translation commits).

Bastien Nocera added forward geocoding search (the process of turning an address into a latitude and longitude) to geoclue-glib.
Carlos Garcia Campos switched devhelp to use WebKit 2 by default.
Parag Nemade added a single default ibus engine for Indic locales to gnome-settings-daemon keyboard plugin. (GNOME bug 685954)
In orca Joanmarie Diggs added a fix for braille email address auto completions in Thunderbird.
In gdm Tim Lunn contributed a fix for shutdown and restart on ConsoleKit systems. (GNOME bug 686125)
Cosimo Cecchi changed Nautilus bookmarks handling to avoid synchronous I/O.
David Zeuthen updated gnome-disk-utility to use libdvdcss, if available, for creating images of DVDs.
Rob Bradford ported cogl to the new Wayland protocol.
Kai Willadsen fixed meld to correctly handle metadata-only changes in Git. (GNOME bug 655315)
Xan Lopez fixed epiphany so it doesn’t automatically download embedded objects. (GNOME bug 683635)
Michael Hill updated the gnome help in gnome-user-docs to reflect the removal of mode switch.
Debarshi Ray added ownCloud support to gnome-online-accounts. (GNOME bug 660573)
In gnumeric Morten Welinder improved the speed of saving large sheets as ODS file, also reducing file size along the way.
Robert Ancell landed the Vala part of gcalctool. (GNOME bug 640685)

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This week… 1540 commits, in 234 projects, by 207 happy hackers (and 365 were translation commits).

Alexander Larsson imported the gvfs-test test frameworks from Martin Pitt into the gvfs source tree.
In gxml Richard Schwarting added examples in C, Vala, JS, and Python on how to create and save documents.
Erick Pérez Castellanos added a new widget to handle 24-hour format time in gnome-calendar.
Richard Hughes changed gnome-color-manager to have a ‘Show details’ button for already-installed profiles.
In folks Jeremy Whiting contributed a new Ofono backend to read contacts from SIM cards.
Ondrej Holy added trackball detection to gnome-settings-daemon. (GNOME bug 685941)
Paolo Bacchilega fixed the creation of hard links in file-roller. (GNOME bug 686061)
In glib, Dan Winship landed GTask, this is a replacement for GSimpleAsyncResult and GIOScheduler, that also allows for making cancellable wrappers around non-cancellable functions. (GNOME bug 661767)
Morten Welinder fixed the performance of gnumeric when writing a xslx file.
Aurimas Černius added an application menu to gnote.
Daniel Stone ported clutter to the new Wayland and xkbcommon APIs.
Jasper St. Pierre included a new code style/hacking guide into gnome-shell. (GNOME bug 661241)
Xan Lopez removed support for extensions in Epiphany, see bug report for rationale. (GNOME bug 685630)
David Zeuthen started reworking the “Create RAID Array” dialog of gnome-disk-utility.

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This week… 2038 commits, in 182 projects, by 223 happy hackers (and 317 were translation commits).

Xan Lopez imported the adblock extension into epiphany source tree. (GNOME bug 681657)
Germán Poó Caamaño ported postr to GTK+ 3.
In yelp-xsl Shaun McCance started experimenting with DITA support.
Felix Riemann updated eog to use GtkApplication to inhibit the screensaver during slideshows. (GNOME bug 684581)
In file-roller Paolo Bacchilega fixed the creation of encrypted and multi-volume archives.
Cosimo Cecchi added support for keyboard item activation in libgd.
Stefano Facchini ported gnome-system-monitor to have an Application menu.
Jens Georg updated rygel to the new GUPnP vapi.
Rui Matos changed gnome-settings-daemon to convert old libgnomekbd and IBus settings. (GNOME bug 685458)
In GTK+ Alexander Larsson updated the broadway backend to use binary websockets if available.
Aurimas Černius changed gnote to make it possible to have several search windows.
Christian Persch ported evince to GtkApplication, and added an Application menu.

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