Issue 158
October 16, 2011
This week… 1750 commits, in 199 projects, by 228 happy hackers (and 252 were translation commits).
- Alexander Larsson pushed his Glick2 code (announce).
- Jakub Steiner added -rtl variants of directional icons, to both gnome-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme-symbolic.
- He also added and fixed hints on various characters of the cantarell fonts.
- In gnome-panel Vincent Untz added support for instance configuration of objects in default layout, it’s now possible to change some settings of the objects in the default layout, for example adding a new launcher.
- Torsten Schönfeld added support for callbacks in perl-Glib-Object-Introspection.
- In gnome-color-manager Richard Hughes speeded up the profile viewer loading when scanning a large number of profiles.
- Marc-André Lureau added password support for machines in gnome-boxes.
- In folks telepathy backend Travis Reitter added support for more fields, birthdays, url details, and email details.
- Cosimo Cecchi changed gnome-documents to register previewed documents into GtkRecentManager . (GNOME bug 661339)
- Jason Crain contributed support for bidirectional, sideways, and italic text into libgxps.
- Jon Nordby implemented configurable autoscaling in GeglGtkView.
- In evolution-data-server Matthew Barnes pushed a new authentication API for libcamel.
- In glib Ryan Lortie switched GCond to use monotonic time for timed waits.
Filed in Digests
Tags: cantarell-fonts, evolution-data-server, folks, gegl-gtk, glib, glick2, gnome-boxes, gnome-color-manager, gnome-documents, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-icon-theme-symbolic, gnome-panel, libgxps, perl-Glib-Object-Introspection
Issue 152
September 4, 2011
This week… 2443 commits, in 197 projects, by 258 happy hackers (and 546 were translation commits).
- In meld Kai Willadsen added a simple animation providing visual cues showing the effects of actions on diff chunks.
- Paolo Bacchilega updated gthumb web uploaders to update the progress bar during the files upload.
- David Zeuthen added SMART functionality to the udisks2 port of gnome-disk-utility.
- Various fixes, by Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse and Petr Salinger, were pushed to libgtop to fix issues on FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
- Cosimo Cecchi added a cache for cover art in sushi . (GNOME bug 655093)
- Ray Strode made the gdm greeter run its own distinct session.
- Lapo Calamandrei made new icons for the various user status . (GNOME bug 656630)
- The default browser set in the default gnome shell favourites list was switched to Epiphany . (GNOME bug 650616)
- Andy Spencer switched grits to use a higher resolution elevation dataset.
- Cosimo Cecchi added a GtkClutter fading toolbar to the fullscreen mode of gnome-documents.
- Andreas J. Guelzow added support for SI units in the scientific format selector of goffice.
- Adel Gadllah changed mutter to unredirect fullscreen windows, to avoid the overhead for intensive applications like games . (GNOME bug 597014)
- In gnome-keyring gcr library Stef Walter added support for getting friendly name out of a PKCS#12 file.
- Murray Cumming improved glom print layout to allow the user to choose row and column line widths and color.
- Morten Mjelva made it possible to search for contacts in the gnome-shell overview . (GNOME bug 643018)
- Alban Crequy optimised the loading contacts part of Empathy contact list.
- In Epiphany Xan Lopez added basic support for Web Applications, allowing to save any page as a “Web Application”.
- In glib Dan Winship updated GSocketAddress to create IPv4 addresses for IPv6 mapped-IPv4 addresses . (GNOME bug 646082)
Filed in Digests
Tags: empathy, epiphany, gdm, glib, glom, gnome-disk-utility, gnome-documents, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-keyring, gnome-shell, goffice, grits, gthumb, libgtop, meld, mutter, sushi
Issue 137
May 22, 2011
This week… 1811 commits, in 154 projects, by 213 happy hackers (and 166 were translation commits).
- Lapo Calamandrei reworked all window related icons, notably improving the “window new” icon (GNOME bug 650712)
- John Stowers started working on introspection support for goocanvas.
- In GNOME Color Manager Richard Hughes added functionality to show optional notifications when a color profile is out of calibration.
- The colour preferences panel based has been reworked based on feedback from the designers and incorported into gnome-control-center.
- In gthumb Paolo Bacchilega added the ability to rotate a picture dragging the image.
- Alexander Larsson added presence icons to chat details in gnome-contacts.
- Mutter got support for style variants, so that colors from the GTK+ style are picked from the correct theme variant . (GNOME bug 645355)
- Will Thompson added a /whois command to Empathy . (GNOME bug 571631)
- Shaun McCance added epub build code to Yelp, and worked on the video javascript and CSS in yelp-xsl.
- Initial work on a gnome-online-accounts client has been started by David Zeuthen in the goa-client branch of gnome-shell.
- Stef Walter added support for listing secret gnupg keys in gnome-keyring.
- Matthias Clasen pushed a prototype of a initial-setup application into the wip/initial-setup branch of gdm.
Filed in Digests
Tags: empathy, gdm, gnome-color-manager, gnome-contacts, gnome-control-center, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-online-accounts, goocanvas, gthumb, mutter, yelp, yelp-xsl
Issue 101
September 12, 2010
This week… 2395 commits, in 184 projects, by 268 happy hackers (and 494 were translation commits).
- Travis Reitter commited a folks-import tool, which allows importing of Pidgin meta-contact information to libfolks’ key file (GNOME bug 629084). He announced it as Folks 0.1.17 includes a migration tool.
- Nathaniel Harward contributed Shotwell support to Conduit.
- Luis Medinas replaced the last part of dbus-glib by GDBus in Brasero.
- A new tablet icon, and a revamped generic phone icon were pushed to gnome-icon-theme by Jakub Steiner.
- Maxim Ermilov added support for optionally attaching modal dialogs in Mutter, and made use of this new feature in GNOME Shell, adding some visual effects along the way . (GNOME bug 612726)
- Also in GNOME Shell Milan Bouchet-Valat ported the built-in magnifier to use GSettings . (GNOME bug 622414)
- In Nemiver Hubert Figuiere ported from libglademm to GtkBuilder, and Dodji Seketeli added support for “filename:linenum” in the set breakpoint dialog.
- W. Michael Petullo fixed sharing of music by Rhythmbox to iTunes 10 over DAAP . (GNOME bug 628974)
- Gabriel Burt made many improvements to the bookmark editing feature of pdfmod, including undo/redo support.
- Ignacio Casal Quinteiro made the interactive search of gedit the default search function, it used to be called using ctrl-k.
- The new GDatetime support in GLib has been updated to use the Proleptic Gregoian calendar instead of the Julian calendar in its internal representation.
- Support for XPS documents has been added to Evince; Carlos Garcia Campos announced it in XPS Documents.
Issue 72
February 21, 2010
This week… 2115 commits, in 218 projects, by 260 happy hackers (and 629 were translation commits).
- Colin Walters optmized function invocation in gjs (GNOME bug 604076).
- Also in gjs, Johan Dahlin pushed the beginning of a module wrapping cairo.
- In GNOME Shell Floran Müllner added fading out of the desktop icons when showing the overview . (GNOME bug 600999)
- Gnumeric got a fix on the way it uses to store floading point values in ODF . (GNOME bug 610372)
- Tomas Bzatek fixed gvfs to correctly store ssh/sftp passwords in the keyring, when requested . (GNOME bug 580024)
- gparted has been changed to indicate required software packages if unable to read file system (GNOME bug 576908)
- gcalctool documentation has been rewritten in the new Mallard format.
- Rygel has been updated to support uploading, this works in both standalone and Tracker backends.
- Lapo Calamamandrei added the last two missing navigation icons (home and jump) to the new GNOME Icon Theme.
- Kupfer got a plugin that makes it able to look inside compressed archives.
- Alexander Kojevnikov implemented support for the media art storage specification to Banshee (to be honest, a simplified version of the proposal ). (GNOME bug 520516)
Issue 66
January 10, 2010
This week… 1910 commits, in 203 projects, by 232 happy hackers (and 374 were translation commits).
- Jesse van den Kieboom updated gitg to have option for local branches in the History view . (GNOME bug 602536)
- Conduit has been ported to GtkBuilder.
- Felix Riemann updated Eog to use GtkInfoBar instead of their custom message area widget.
- Libchamplain got support to display a scale with the current unit size on the map. Pierre-Luc Beaudoin wrote about this new feature in Can you spot what’s new? on his weblog.
- Florian Scandella changed the GNOME Shell to autohide the sidebar when in compatch mode . (GNOME bug 604118)
- Also in the GNOME Shell, Dan Winship changed the messaging area to use the notification daemon instead of talking directly with Telepathy, the bug report has the rationale . (GNOME bug 606331)
- Introspection support has been added to totem-pl-parser . (GNOME bug 555848)
- A new and proper build system found its way to gnome-icon-theme.
- Empathy merged the audio and video icons of the contact window, as there is now a context menu allowing to start audio and video calls.
- Also both libnotify and notification-daemon have been imported onto git.gnome.org.
Filed in Digests
Tags: conduit, empathy, gedit, gitg, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-shell, libchamplain, libnotify, notification-daemon, totem-pl-parser
Issue 62
December 13, 2009
This week… 1522 commits, in 153 projects, by 200 happy hackers (and 121 were translation commits).
- In Epiphany Carl van Tonder added a gconf key to control the search engine used in auto-search.
- GNOME Terminal got support for more proxy settings, exposing environment variables such as ftp_proxy or https_proxy, taken from the GNOME Proxy Preferences . (GNOME bug 596688)
- Federico Mena Quintero changed the Display Preferences tool to automatically turn on outputs which support Mirror Screens . (GNOME bug 590823)
- Andrea Cimitan pushed a lot of updates to the Murrine theme engine, including support for theming the GtkExpander widget.
- Support for per-monitor backgrounds has been added to the control center, Nautilus and libgnome-desktop . (GNOME bug 147808)
- Holger Berndt added support for panes in Nautilus, to provide a new split view mode.
- Johan Dahlin added introspection support to ATK . (GNOME bug 592146)
- Palimpset, from the GNOME Disk Utility module, got a “connect to server” dialog, to manage disks on a remote server.
- File Roller has been updated to use AES256 as encryption type when creating zip files with 7zip.
- In the GNOME Icon Theme Lapo Calamandrei updated a lot of icons, including a new set of navigation icons.
Filed in Digests
Tags: atk, epiphany, file-roller, gnome-control-center, gnome-desktop, gnome-disk-utility, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-terminal, murrine, nautilus
Issue 60
November 29, 2009
This week… 1770 commits, in 169 projects, by 229 happy hackers (and 274 were translation commits).
- The GtkToolPalette widget, which provides a tool palette with categories, has been merged into gtk + (GNOME bug 567729).
- Ke Wang added D-Bus support to the Java ATK wrapper, so it can work with the new AT-SPI
- Thorsten Sick added complete documentation to many of the (lib)seahorse files, and seahorse-plugins migrated from libglade to GtkBuilder.
- Federico Mena Quintero added handling of the XF86RotateWindows hotkey to gnome-settings-daemon, to rotate a laptop display; this is for tablets that have a “rotate the screen” hotkey. It finds the laptop’s built-in video output and rotate it to the next available rotation.
- Colin Walters ported GNOME Shell “AppWell” and panel to CSS . (GNOME bug 602131).
- Anjuta and Brasero both moved code to use the GtkInfoBar widget introduced in GTK+ 2.18.
- The way message parsing and escaping is handled in Empathy has been reworked to handle more cases of URL and smileys replacements.
- The one-canvas branch of the GNOME Icon Theme has been merged to master, many impressive icons in there! (unfortunately it still needs a proper build system, see GNOME bug 602988)
- Alexander Larsson commited GConverter to glib master, it is a generic interface for stateful conversions of data, it is a generic interface suitable for things like IConv, compression, decompression and regexp replacement. He posted to gtk-devel-list about it: GConverted commited.
- Totem gained support for playing DVDs from images, it now shows mounted archives in the Movie menu.
- David Zeuthen cleaned up the user interface of the SMART dialog of gnome-disk-utility. screenshot of cleaned up UI.
- And Gian Mario Tagliaretti wrapped the API added in GIO 2.22 in pygobject.
Filed in Digests
Tags: empathy, glib, gnome-disk-utility, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-shell, gtk+, java-atk-wrapper, pygobject, seahorse, seahorse-plugins, totem
Issue 59
November 22, 2009
This week… 1637 commits, in 179 projects, by 248 happy hackers (and 285 were translation commits).
- In the camel-gobject branch of Evolution, Matthew Barnes replaced Camel’s homegrown type system with GObject.
- Brasero got Tracker support in its search pane . (GNOME bug 465660)
- Simon van der Linden added a method to compare GIBaseInfo objects (GNOME bug 590527)
- Pitivi got preliminary support for video mixing.
- Brian Cameron added back Include, Exclude, and IncludeAll configuration options to GDM, to select which users should be visible; the option had been removd in the 2.22 rewrite. (GNOME 557553)
- Florian Müllner improved the GNOME Shell to switch from the overview to the confirmation dialog some applications display before closing, when an application is closed from the overview . (GNOME bug 602532).
- Also in the GNOME Shell, to support a message tray, Dan Winship added a notification daemon service.
- After doing a first serie of commands two weeks ago, Xavier Claessens added support for the /nick command to Empathy . (GNOME bug 602066)
- Evince has been modified to display files attached to PDF documents (it requires poppler from git master ). (GNOME bug 601839)
- The GNOME Icon Theme got special icons for XDF folders (documents, download, music, pictures…).
Filed in Digests
Tags: brasero, empathy, evince, evolution, gdm, gnome-icon-theme, gnome-shell, gobject-introspection, pitivi