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Issue 72

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)

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This week… 1904 commits, in 187 projects, by 204 happy hackers (and 641 were translation commits).

British English is the first language to reach 100%, there is now eight languages with over 99% of the UI strings translated, sixteen with over 95%, and 39 over the 80% mark (used to be listed in the release notes).
There are three new modules in Subversion this week: Gnome Format, a GNOME media formatter, developed by Michael Kanis, gpointing-device-settings, a program for touchpad and trackpad settings, developed by Hiroyuki Ikezoe, and gio-strigi, a GIO wrapper for Strigi, developed by Philip Van Hoof.
Davyd Madeley started preparing the stage for the 2.26 release notes.
Following on last week work, Alexander Larsson worked on trusted desktop file launchers in Nautilus.
Rhythmbox got a D-Bus interface for adding and removing DAAP shares. (GNOME bug 570115)
GParted added detection of the BRTFS file system.
David Zeuthen added a –device option to gvfs-mount.
Support for taking a screenshot of an user-defined selection landed in gnome-screenshot. (GNOME bug 155061, opened in October 2004)
Lucas Rocha merged his session-saving branch into gnome-session trunk.
Epiphany (webkit) started using SoupProxyResolverGNOME, so it gets support for GNOME proxy settings through libproxy.
Bastien Nocera announced the fork of bluez-gnome that is now available in gnome-bluetooth.
Orca got support for notify-osd (the new Ubuntu notification daemon).

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