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Issue 202

This week… 2117 commits, in 193 projects, by 242 happy hackers (and 481 were translation commits).

In libsecret Stef Walter added an extensive manpage for the secret-tool utility. (GNOME bug 681434)
Kevin Anthony added CanSetFullscreen and Fullscreen properties to the MPRIS support of Banshee, bringing it to version 2.2 of the standard. (GNOME bug 681890)
Jesse van den Kieboom added support for smooth scroll to gedit textsize plugin.
In gnome-backgrounds Jakub Steiner pushed a new set of images, to refresh the set of extra wallpapers.
Meg Ford added a new Properties dialog to gnome-documents.
Alexander Larsson converted EggListBox from vala to C.
Ondrej Holy contributed support for “natural scroll” to the mouse gnome-settings-daemon plugin. (GNOME bug 659498)
Vivien Malerba migrated libgda from libgnome-keyring to libsecret.
Arth Patel replaced the lex/bison parser of gcalctool by a new hand-written parser.
John Stowers made it possible for gnome-tweak-tool to configure shell extension preferences.
Behdad Esfahbod merged his harfbuzz (a text shaping library) branch into pango.
In evolution-ews Milan Crha implemented the “Subscribe to folder of other user” feature.
William Jon McCann pushed a new background panel into gnome-control-center. (GNOME bug 676539)
Marc-André Lureau added a GNOME Shell search provider for gnome-boxes. (GNOME bug 681246)
Felix Riemann added a new plugin to eog to disable the use of the dark theme variant. (GNOME bug 675918)

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This week… 1689 commits, in 166 projects, by 220 happy hackers (and 350 were translation commits).

Paolo Bacchilega added an application menu to gthumb.
Milan Crha updated evolution-ews to be able to read/write folder permissions.
In gnome-clocks Eslam Mostafa commited a new design for the alarms dialog.
Carlos Garcia Campos continued porting Epiphany to webkit2, this week the inspector and the disk cache.
Matthias Clasen deprecated thread functions in gdk. (GNOME bug 680754)
Lucian Langa initiated the gsettings migration of evolution-rss.
In gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen made the Create/Restore Disk Image dialogs non-modal.
William Jon McCann added a way to rank search results in Nautilus, it gives each search hit a relevance score computed from the sum of proximity, recent, and text match bonuses. (GNOME bug 680163)
Matthew Barnes added D-Bus interfaces to evolution-data-server for remote resource management.
Jasper St. Pierre integrated gnome-initial-setup into gdm. (GNOME bug 678057)
Ville Sokk added both a memory mapped file backend and a threaded memory map file backend to gegl.
Richard Hughes changed the gnome-control-center to show hotspot details in a new sub-frame.
Florian Müllner updated gnome-shell login screen user list to indicate whether users are logged in. (GNOME bug 658185)
Morten Welinder improved inter-workbook calculations in Gnumeric.

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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… 2239 commits, in 150 projects, by 214 happy hackers (and 137 were translation commits).

Heinrich Müller added flagging of individual articles in Pan. (GNOME bug 651307)
Mario Sanchez Prada replaced the adblock epiphany extension by a port of Midori adblocker, which is compatible with the EasyList subscriptions for “AdBlock Plus”. (GNOME bug 660154)
Dan Winship added server-side session cache support to glib-networking gnutls backend. (GNOME bug 636574)
Colin Walters updated gnome-settings-daemon to monitor for gnome-shell presence, and update the Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu property accordingly.
Vibha Yadav contributed support for delegation in evolution-ews. (GNOME bug 656376)
In gnome-screensaver Antoine Jacoutot implemented OpenBSD authentication using bsd_auth (instead of PAM). (GNOME bug 651554)
Seif Lotfy added a new dashboard plugin to gedit, it displays a grid of recently/most used files upon opening a new tab. (GNOME bug 663466)
Tom Tryfonidis contributed a redesign of the about: pages of Epiphany. (GNOME bug 665136)
Alan Knowles added an (experimental) xorg extension to seed.
In Orca Joanmarie Diggs added support for speech presentation of embedded object characters in WebKitGtk content.
Milan Crha added “Listen for server notifications” option to mail, address book, and calendar parts of evolution-mapi.
Rob Bradford added a first version of a “baremetal” backend for EGL on KMS to cogl.
Takeshi Kurosawa contributed support for basic vertical writing to librsvg. (GNOME bug 664533)

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