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Issue 12

This week… 1027 commits, in 147 projects, by 132 happy hackers (and 123 were translation commits).

After support for icons has been added in GTK+ last week (and I forgot to note it), Matthias Clasen added a section in the documentation on porting from SexyIconEntry.
libgnome dependency got removed from sound-juicer, libgnome/libgnomeui from gfloppy, and bonobo from the Anjuta toolbar.
Nemiver variable inspector widget now remember history of the variables. (GNOME bug 536259)
Evince got its printing system reworked, making the GUI responsive during printing, with progress information. (GNOME bug 482770)
The system log viewer in gnome-utils has been rewritten by Cosimo Cecchi.
Metacity got the “Maximize” shortcut to act as “Restore” for maximised windows.
Epiphany/gecko got some Gecko 1.9.1 fixes, and Epiphany/webkit can now open new links in new tabs thanks to the new Policy Decision system in WebKit.
The new GNOME Volume Control got a few alert sounds (bark, drip, glass and sonar).
Rhythmbox switched to a normal GtkTooltip, rather than a custom arrangement of widgets in a SexyTooltip

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This week… 1590 commits, in 166 projects, by 183 happy hackers (and 153 were translation commits).

Many modules saw development releases for 2.25.1.
The libgnome dependency got removed from gnome-power-manager, and gnome-utils (dictionary, screenshot, logview) removed it as well as the dependency on libgnomeui.
In the same vain, seahorse-plugins removed its gnome-vfs dependency.
William Jon McCann commited a new volume control using PulseAudio, deprecating the old gst-mixer one.
Behdad Esfahbod worked quite a bit on gnome-settings-daemon and blogged about the improved login time he achieved.
Benjamin Berg added a Clearlookstest theme, as he proposed on desktop-devel-list several weeks ago, it is not enabled by default though.
Seed, GObject-Javascript bridge, was finally revealed by Robert Carr on gtk-devel-list.
brasero got a nautilus extension, based on current nautilus-cd-burner.
John Carr commited support for git mirrors to jhbuild (support for bzr mirrors coming soon).