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Issue 203

This week… 2517 commits, in 248 projects, by 246 happy hackers (and 522 were translation commits).

Tim-Philipp Müller ported brasero to GStreamer 1.0.
Erick Pérez Castellanos added an overlay for the creation of events in gnome-calendar.
Kalev Lember ported ghex to GtkApplication.
Paolo Bacchilega fixed file-roller to restore file attributes after extraction. (GNOME bug 682513)
Xavier Claessens changed Empathy to not show offline contacts by default.
In pango Behdad Esfahbod fixed bidi implementation with regards to Unicode 5.2.0. (GNOME bug 590183)
Clément Coudoin contributed a new Asia map level to gcompris geography activity.
In libsoup Gustavo Noronha Silva added SoupMultipartInputStream, for handling multipart responses. (GNOME bug 656684)
Steffen Macke improved shape export in dia, allowing to draw connection points with special shapes.
In GTK+ Lars Uebernickel added support for action namespaces to GtkModelMenu.
Rui Matos updated gnome-settings-daemon to apply XKB options. (GNOME bug 679075)
Lionel Landwerlin added a zoom action to clutter. (GNOME bug 678427)
Paolo Bacchilega added a new custom high quality scale function to gthumb.
In gnome-clocks Seif Lotfy added support for storing edited alarms.
The restyling of gnome-shell message tray has landed, Ana Risteska wrote about that in GNOME Summer Lovin’.
Cosimo Cecchi changed gnome-font-viewer to load font names asynchronously.

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This week… 1783 commits, in 181 projects, by 224 happy hackers (and 359 were translation commits).

Martin Pitt added support for GFlags properties to pygobject. (GNOME bug 620943)
In libsoup Dan Winship fixed some problems with cancelling an asynchronous socket connect operation.
Bastien Nocera moved Totem application-wide menu items to a new app menu. (GNOME bug 673098)
Philip Withnall added support for resumable uploads and updates to the Documents API in libgdata.
In Empathy Laurent Contzen added support for local IP address and port in SIP account settings widget. (GNOME bug 669134)
Martin Olsson changed ghex to show file offset in statusbar as 0xOFFSET instead of OFFSET.
Neil Roberts added a mechanism for determining GPU driver details to cogl.
Owen Taylor changed Mutter not to try to auto-maximize not-maximizable windows. (GNOME bug 673566)
Lucian Langa fixed bootloader burning in gnoduino.
In gnome-online-accounts Debarshi Ray added D-Bus APIs to enable/disable Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Chat, and Documents. (GNOME bug 657905)
Damien Sandras improved the notifications of Ekiga, especially when running under GNOME Shell.
In gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow fixed the properties page of Document Properties dialog. (GNOME bug 673256)
Alexander Larsson removed the GTK+ ms-windows engine as it is no longer used for the windows theme anymore.

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This week… 2035 commits, in 191 projects, by 224 happy hackers (and 616 were translation commits).

Lucian Langa added initial support for arduino 1.0 to the gnoduino IDE.
Carlos Garcia Campos fixed the zoom in and out actions of devhelp. (GNOME bug 658796)
Shaun McCance made various improvements to the TTML support in Yelp, used for video subtitles.
Stef Walter added some functions to expose a secure memory API from gcr.
He later used it in the implementation of a gnome-keyring prompter integrated within gnome-shell.
Also in gnome-shell, Florian Müllner added the possibility to start a drag to restore a window from the panel. (GNOME bug 666359)
Jasper St. Pierre modified ghex to use gresource. (GNOME bug 671101)
Paolo Borelli did the same for a bunch of gedit plugins.
Alexander Larsson added support in gnome-contacts for linking non-main contacts with other non-main contacts, this is useful to link telepathy contacts together.
In GTK+ Matthias Clasen implemented support for touch events to the colorswatch.
And Michael Natterer implemented smooth scrolling in the scrolled window and range widgets.
Emmanuele Bassi added flexible API version boundaries to glib.

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Tags: devhelp, gcr, gedit, ghex, glib, gnoduino, gnome-contacts, gnome-shell, gtk+, yelp

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This week… 1305 commits, in 147 projects, by 196 happy hackers (and 237 were translation commits).

David King disabled Ctrl-Alt-Del action in the view-only mode of Vinagre. (GNOME bug 656451)
Vincent Untz added support for XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, to be used by non-GNOME consumers of GNOME. (GNOME bug 654041)
Eitan Isaacson merged the support GTK+ modules into Caribou. (GNOME bug 655047)
In GNOME Disk Utility David Zeuthen added an UI for editing /etc/fstab entries.
Lubosz Sarnecki contribued viewer transformation support into Pitivi.
GHex has been ported to use GSettings by Kalev Lember.
Jakub Steiner and Cosimo Cecchi made various refinements to the Adwaita theme.
In pygobject Laszlo Pandy added support for calling functions with keyword arguments in invoke. (GNOME bug 625596)
Dan Winship changed libsoup to default to TLS for https connections, and fall back to SSLv3 on failure. (GNOME bug 581342)
Luca Bruno switched vala support for libgdata to use introspection data. (GNOME bug 655192)
In goffice Jean Bréfort added support for smoothed curve renaming. (GNOME bug 656148)
Jasper St. Pierre added invisible borders to Mutter, paving the way for easier grab on thin window borders. (GNOME bug 644930)
Philip Withnall ported the MPRIS support of Totem to version 2.1.
In folks Travis Reitter added support for vCard-like parameters to a serie of attributes.
Murray Cumming made various improvements to the Print Layout support of glom.

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This week… 2149 commits, in 179 projects, by 319 happy hackers (and 557 were translation commits).

Sven Herzberg cleaned up gnome-launch-box, removing libgnome, libgnomeui, gnome-vfs dependencies, and more; in the same cleaning vein Javier Jardón updated gnome-hello and ghex.
Mutter merged a lot of Metacity changes, including the usage of libcanberra to play system bell and workspace switch sounds (GNOME bug 609585).
Adel Gadllah replaced the workspace switcher popup of GNOME Shell (which was still the old metacity popup), with a clutter based one, which fits better into the overall shell design. (GNOME bug 609187)
Also in GNOME Shell Maxim Ermilov added an “InfoBar” and undo capabilities to overview, it allows to show some information to the user and to undo his actions. (GNOME bug 608933)
The Postasa plugin, to support uploading images to PicasaWeb using libgdata, has ben added to eog-plugins. (GNOME bug 600190)
The Accounts dialog of Empathy has been seperated into its own program which works with the Gnome preferences and control center, this also supports embedding the preferences dialog in the “extensible-shell” control center.
Jose Millan Soto added back support for print preview in Epiphany (GNOME bug 609021)
The Magnatune rhythmbox plugin saw many improvements thanks to Adam Zimmerman.

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