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.

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Issue 157

October 9, 2011

This week… 1979 commits, in 218 projects, by 220 happy hackers (and 405 were translation commits).

  • Carlos Garcia Campos added API docs and introspection support to libgxps.
  • In gnome-keyring Stef Walter completed the PKCS#11 import dialog.
  • The “margins” branch landed in Glade, it’s now posible to change widget margins using the mouse, thanks to Juan Pablo Ugarte.
  • Jakub Steiner contributed a gorgeous icon for Boxes.
  • Torsten Schönfeld added support for implementing interfaces and object vfuncs into perl-Glib-Object-Introspection.
  • Debarshi Ray optimized note creation, renaming and deletion in gnote, updating the note tree instead of reconstructing it anew every time. (GNOME bug 660663)
  • Christophe Dumez improved the bulk contact removal code in evolution-data-server addressbook component.
  • Christian Schaller added an HTML5 preset to Transmageddon.
  • Ming Han Teh contributed drag’n’drop support for adding wallpapers into the gnome-control-center background panel. (GNOME bug 655375)
  • In GNOME Shell Matthias Clasen updated contact search to match on more fields, making it closer to the way it works in gnome-contacts. (GNOME bug 660580)
  • Andreas J. Guelzow added some extra code to gnumeric xls import to fix border consistency in 1C generated files.
  • Matthew Barnes used new GtkApplication features to trim off redundancies in Evolution EShell.
  • Murray Cumming changed Glom to generated a standard print layout instead of an HTML file, when printing the details view.

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Issue 150

August 21, 2011

This week… 2080 commits, in 168 projects, by 244 happy hackers (and 325 were translation commits).

  • Stef Walter refactored the asynchronous operation code in seahorse.
  • Carlos Martín Nieto changed blam to use the db4o database engine for storage.
  • Torsten Schönfeld made major improvements to the introspection support in Perl.
  • A new chat input style, with smaller meta messages, has been pushed into gnome-shell by Allan Day.
  • GNOME Contacts got an initial, and crude, dialog for linking contacts.
  • Jiří Techet made the zoom animation in libchamplain configurable.
  • The Aunt Mary game has been added back to Aisleriot by Christian Persch. (GNOME bug 325039)
  • Ignacio Casal Quinteiro updated the search popup of gedit to use CSS for styling.
  • Shaun McCance speeded up urlencode calls in cache generation in yelp-xsl.
  • Rodrigo Moya migrated the smartcard gnome-settings-daemon plugin from dbus-glib to gdbus.
  • John Stowers added per-document preferences to gedit-latex.
  • The new log window of Empathy got landed by Danielle Madeley.
  • Matthew Barnes added a “security-method” property to evolution port entry.
  • In Gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow added support for the HPFILTER, a function calculating the Hodrick Prescott Filter.
  • The new font chooser dialog, developed by Alberto Ruiz, was merged into GTK+.

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Issue 139

June 5, 2011

This week… 1760 commits, in 183 projects, by 233 happy hackers (and 306 were translation commits).

  • Torsten Schönfeld unified the index handling in argument marshalling in perl-Glib-Object-Introspection.
  • Vamsi Krishna Brahmajosyula contributed a new gnome shell extension, to add a GNOME2-like menu on the panel.
  • Vincent Povirk added a new game, eliminator, to Aisleriot, discussion on code and rules happened in GNOME bug 637030.
  • Vincent Untz fixed a security issue in gdm, nullifying URI scheme handlers.
  • In Epiphany Sergio Villar Senin added a about:plugins page, to show the list of installed plugins. (GNOME bug 575498)
  • Paolo Bacchilega added code to disable the screensaver when playing videos or slideshows in GThumb.
  • Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller added video only encoding in Transmageddon.
  • Support for an orientation lock has been added the gnome-settings-daemon orientation plugin.
  • Florian Müllner simplified handling of removed workspaces in GNOME Shell.
  • Iain Lane switched Tomboy from NDesk Dbus to dbus-sharp.
  • Ryan Lortie implemented pointer sized bitlocks in glib, including an hand-coded assembly version for x86. (GNOME bug 651467)

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Issue 110

November 14, 2010

This week… 2168 commits, in 214 projects, by 223 happy hackers (and 385 were translation commits).

  • Tomas Bzatek ported the GVFS daemons to GSettings.
  • The drag n drop redesign of GNOME Shell has been pushed to the gnome-shell-design repository.
  • Torsten Schoenfeld worked on introspection support in the Perl modules, adding tests and implementing conversions from and to Perl scalar values.
  • Owen Taylor pushed his mutter branch making shadows pretty and configurable. (GNOME bug 592382)
  • Epiphany has been changed to use ful lcontent zoom by default. (GNOME bug 615362)
  • Shaun McCance added support for TTML captions to Mallard tag, he wrote about it in Mallard+TTML Video Captions.
  • Maxim Ermilov updated GNOME Shell to never fall back to using the window title as application name. (GNOME bug 624935)
  • Tomaž Vajngerl added the MapQuest rendered for OpenStreetMap to libchamplain.
  • Jose Aliste ported the gedit syntex plugin to both libpeas and the newest pygobject (with introspection).
  • Nemiver got better breakpoint re-setting on restart, by Dodji Seketeli. (GNOME bug 634227)
  • Lucas Rocha added thing-specific toolbars to The Board (which has been added to git.gnome.org recently), and later he wrote about them in Context Toolbars in The Board.
  • In GTK+ A xcb GDK backend has been started by Ryan Lortie.
  • Ignacio Casal Quinteiro updated gstranslated plugin engine to use libpeas.
  • And Gheyret T.Kenji added Uighur translations to a lot of modules.

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