GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 2933 commits, in 162 projects, by 257 happy hackers (and 368 were translation commits).

• Emmanuele Bassi added JsonReader, a simple, cursor-based API for parsing a JSON DOM, to json-glib.
• Christian Persch created a gdbus branch of gconf, porting it to gdbus; in the same vein David Zeuthen ported PolicyKit-gnome from dbus-glib to gdbus.
• As for GDK changes, Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen started porting gnome-games, Benjamin Otte pushed a cairo-port branch onto gnome-mag, and ported parts of Nautilus, and The Gimp continued being ported to Cairo by Michael Natterer.
• Empathy has been changed by Bilal Akhtar to use GimpNet as default IRC network. (GNOME bug 625675)
• Martin Pitt ported gdm to UPower. (GNOME bug 626176)
• An initial implementation of the “background” panel has been pushed to gnome-control-center.
• Andreas J. Guelzow added exporting of images to ODF in Gnumeric.
• Preview comments have been added to most of the effects provided by gnome-video-effects (now used by Cheese).
• A new “Shuffle” action has been added on the Banshee play queue.
• Ryan Lortie added signals to GApplication, they are: startup, activate, open, action, and command-line.
• Support for common licenses has been added to GTK+, this introduces a :license-type property. (GNOME bug 336225)
• Also in GTK+ Matthias Clasen beefed up the GTK 2 -> 3 migration guide, including a first cut at documenting the rendering cleanup changes and the region removal.
• For their last week of Summer of Code, Dena Dragos added a basic import/export feature to Anjuta snippets, Adrien Bustany added a function to load resources filtering on their attributes to his tracker ORM, Alexander Saprykin got his chapters plugin merged in Totem (GNOME bug 622779), and more.