» pygi GNOME Commit-Digest

Issue 87

This week… 1883 commits, in 194 projects, by 225 happy hackers (and 372 were translation commits).

Christian Persch added a backend using GDBus to libunique (GNOME bug 618723).
In the same vain both libbonobo and nautilus have been ported to use GDBus.
In another important transition Richard Hughes ported gnome-packagekit and gnome-power-manager to GSettings.
Maxim Ermilov modified GNOME Shell app view to have sections, based on the categories from desktop files. (GNOME bug 614131)
John Palmieri added the gtk-demo app, and a couple of demos, to the the pygi repository.
Per-line staging and unstaging has been made possibile in the gitg git frontend.
Robert Carr added a theme chooser, and several themes, to his Glide presentation tool.
In the Ease presentation tool Nate Stedman added transition previews in the inspector.
Evolution-data-server got the necessary code to connect via a SOCKS4 proxy.
Yelp got a “Read Later” feature, Shaun McCance wrote about it on his blog: Read It Later With Yelp.
Ruben Vermeersch worked on the import code of f-spot.
An initial universal access module and UI has been added to the gnome-control-center by Thomas Wood.
During his SoC Alex Launi abstracted the context pane logic of Banshee so that the context pane and the now playing area can work independently while sharing the same backend content.
Yuvi Panga spent his second week replicating most of the UI of Cheese in Vala, making the thumbnail widget work, and implementing a fullscreen mode.

Comments Off

This week… 2094 commits, in 204 projects, by 253 happy hackers (and 417 were translation commits).

Florent Thévenet added support for user preferences to solang, using gsettings.
libunique and gtkmm have both been ported to GTK+ 3.0.
Fabio Bonelli removed libbonobo from Galeon, it uses D-Bus now.
In pygi John Palmieri wrapped the GObject module, making it compatible with both the ancient pygobject attributes and new attributes exposed by introspection.
Roberto Majadas added initial support for ConsoleKit in nanny.
The dependency on libgnome-vfs has been removed from f-spot, it now uses GIO.
The class inheritance graph in anjuta has been switched to use cairo, instead of straight gdk draw.
Christian Persch ported Evince and GConf to GDBus.
Fridrich Strba pushed an initial implementation to have evolution as default mail client and mailto handler under Windows.
Introspection support has been added for the libnautilus-extension library.
GEdit unique instance mechanism has been switched from bacon to DBus.
In GNOME Shell Colin Walters implemented the initial application menu.
Last but not least Matthias Clasen merged GDBus in glib.

Comments Off

This week… 2112 commits, in 216 projects, by 243 happy hackers (and 431 were translation commits).

The Hamster project got separated in client and d-bus service, and got a command line client (GNOME bug 602642).
Behdad Esfahbod pushed a gnome-terminal branch with a find dialog to highlight search terms. (GNOME bug 78963).
Much work happened in the asm-support branch of nemiver.
This was the week of the gsettings hackfest, many changes landed in both glib and gconf modules, you should read the day 1 summary by Vincent Untz and overall summary by Matthias Clasen.
During that hackfest baobab (in gnome-utils) has also been ported to gsettings, with explanative commit messages, and the devhelp branch has been updated for the API changes.
There was also a GNOME Python hackfest and much work happened in pygobject and pygi, go read posts written by John Palmieri: day 0, day 1, day 2, and wrapup.
Tadej Borovšak ported sound juicer to GtkBuilder, this was the last module using libglade, yeah.
Torsten Schönfeld started adding GIO support to the Perl binding, via gobject-introspection.
Support for application-indicators/StatusNotifierIcon has been added to the typing break applet in gnome-control-center (GNOME bug 606671)
Evolution got a new foocanvas branch, getting rid of libgnomecanvas.
A new SSH Hosts plugin written by Fabian Carlström has been added to kupfer.
Joanmarie Diggs added improved support for Empathy in orca. (GNOME bug 589925)

Comments Off