» gpointing-device-settings GNOME Commit-Digest

Issue 74

This week… 2390 commits, in 220 projects, by 281 happy hackers (and 708 were translation commits).

Empathy made URL some people put in their contact status clickable right from the contact list (GNOME bug 525576)
Hiroyuki Ikezoe updated gpointing-device-settings to support a speed property.
The cairo branch has been merged into gjs.
Snowy (the webservice companion of Tomboy) has been updated to use UTC as internal time representation, to avoid dealing with different timezones.
Jean Bréfort implemented round rectangles, arrow heads for arcs and spline support for polyline and polygons in goffice canvas.
Jürg Billeter updated tracker to refuse updates when low on disk scape.
The libgnomekbd layout indicator has been changed to use the default font family and size, instead of hardcoding Helvetica. (GNOME bug 610544)
Richard Hugues pushed a color-management branch to GTK+, implemening an optional LCMS GIO module, and GtkColorEngine, GtkColorTransform and GtkColorProfile.
gcalctool has been changed to show bit editor for numbers not in base 10.
Jesse van den Kieboom implemented a new words completion word finder method in gtksourceview, as the previous version was buggy and a lot of bookkeeping.
GNOME Power Manager has been changed to play a sound loop if the charge of a laptop battery or UPS reaches a critical level.

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This week… 1396 commits, in 196 projects, by 161 happy hackers (and 354 were translation commits).

Vincent Untz commited his changes to session management (GNOME bug 552387).
gnome-disk-utility has been ported to the new DeviceKit-disks, that uses libatasmart.
Rhythmbox switched to using GStreamer decodebin2 instead of decodebin, that fixed playback of chained ogg streams.
Brasero split into backend (libbrasero-burn) and application was finished, the new library API now needs to be refined.
gpointing-device-settings got support for tap move and palm detection.
Sebastian Dröge started porting totem GStreamer backend to playbin2. (GNOME bug 542663)
gnome-bluetooth device chooser saw some merging of device types into categories (mice and keyboard in “input devices”, headphones, headsets and others in “audio devices”…), making easier to find a select devices.
libchamplain added a way to make visible a bunch of markers (GNOME bug 574809) and smooth movement to a new position (GNOME bug 557641).
Anjal saw many changes, such as working Delete/Junk, a formatting toolbar, and the possibility to open mails in new tabs.

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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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