Issue 185

April 22, 2012

This week… 1882 commits, in 225 projects, by 228 happy hackers (and 341 were translation commits).

  • Bastien Nocera ported phonemgr to the newest evolution-data-server using GSettings. (GNOME bug 672067)
  • In goffice Jean Bréfort made WMF support work when not built with EMF support.
  • In pygobject Martin Pitt added the possibility to GType properties from Python. (GNOME bug 674351)
  • Richard Hughes added help pages to gnome-color-manager explaining how to use the ICC profiles on other systems.
  • Marc-André Lureau fixed gnome-boxes so the top toolbar is not displayed when dragging a window in the VM, as that movement is used to maximize the window in Windows 7, and GNOME. (GNOME bug 674361)
  • Cosimo Cecchi started a new style for OSD widgets in gnome-themes-standard.
  • He also fixed gnome-screenshot to fall back to $HOME when saving into XDG_PICTURES_DIR fails. (GNOME bug 672833)
  • Gustavo Noronha Silva changed epiphany to also consider email inputs when looking for user/password forms. (GNOME bug 666326)
  • David Zeuthen changed gvfs to not set should_automount to TRUE for devices on other seats.
  • Benjamin Otte landed his work on GTK+ adding an animating framework.
  • In gthumb Paolo Bacchilega added some guards to avoid loading extensions with a different API version.
  • Taryn Fox contributed several javascript tutorials to gnome-devel-docs.

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Issue 122

February 6, 2011

This week… 2281 commits, in 185 projects, by 262 happy hackers (and 364 were translation commits).

  • Felix Riemann converted postr to use libpeas as plugin system.
  • Francesco Marella migrated phonemgr from libglade to GtkBuilder. (GNOME bug 590816)
  • Sergey V. Udaltsov added a gkbd-keyboard-display utility to libgnomekbd, to be used by gnome-shell and gnome-control-center to display keyboard layouts.
  • Jonathan Matthew ported the Python plugins of Rhythmbox to gobject introspection.
  • GDM was switched by Ray Strode to use accounts service for language and session.
  • Cosimo Cecchi added a notification to Nautilus, when all transfer are completed.
  • Unlock buttons have been added to both datetime and printers control center panels.
  • David Zeuthen landed his work implementing the new calendar menu of GNOME Shell; he showed the result in GNOME 3 Calendar. (GNOME bug 632109)
  • In Meld Kai Willadsen reworked directory-level file comparison, the new version features somewhat simpler logic, progressive file reading, binary file filter handling and provides earlier exit in no-filter cases. (GNOME bug 586656)
  • The port of GNOME Panel to GTK+ 3 has been merged.
  • Benjamin Otte rewrote the event handling of the area selection of gnome-screenshot.
  • Christian Schaller changed the UI of Transmageddon to a combobox bases setup instead of radiobuttons, this to both shrink UI and allow for support of multiple audio streams; this makes a new look for Transmageddon.

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