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Issue 56

This week… 1906 commits, in 181 projects, by 237 happy hackers (and 363 were translation commits).

A full screen mode has been added to emerillon (GNOME bug 599764).
John Wendell fixed several memory leaks in Vinagre and gtk-vnc.
A new “Document License” tab has been added to Evince, it can display license information embedded in PDF files (GNOME bug 349173)
In GNOME Games, gnometris got renamed to quadrapassel (due to trademark concerns), and same-gnome to swell-foop (due to “GNOME” in the old name).
Support for group profiles has been added to Sabayon, thanks to Scott Balneaves.
GTK+ was updated to use standard Mac shortcuts on Mac OS X (Cmd-X, Cmd-C, etc.). (GNOME bug 530351)
Ignacio Casal Quinteiro ported gedit to GSettings, in the appropriately named gsettings branch of gedit; this is still a work in progress.
Thomas Thurman added a first theme using CSS to the cowbell branch of metacity, the theme is named Sunshine.
Peter Bloomfield marked important items in the balsa toolbars, so they work better with the new “text besides icons” default.
Andreas J. Guelzow added ODF compability function “SHEETS” to Gnumeric.
Matthew Barnes started porting Evolution from libglade to GtkBuilder.
Finally usage of libgnomevfs has been removed from gnome-pilot.

This week… 2195 commits, in 186 projects, by 288 happy hackers (and 328 were translation commits).

Now that gnome-doc-utils and yelp both have support for Mallard documents, Milo Casagrande converted gnome-hello documentation to the new format.
After some discussion on the gnomecc list the default toolbar style has been changed to “Text beside items”.
Sabayon was changed to use Xephyr instead of Xnest, as Xephyr supports the “new” X extensions.
gnome-session has been fixed to not exit when the system bus restarts. (GNOME bug 583345)
A new “ssh” plugin appeared in vinagre, which is becoming a universal tool to access remote systems.
Robin Stocker added to Totem the functionality to remember the current position of a stream when pausing or closing. (GNOME bug 164918)
After Hylke Bons posted some thoughts on the font viewer Thomas Wood started implementing the proposed ideas, in the “font-viewer-revamp” branch of the GNOME Control Center.
Anjuta Git plugin gained an option to initialize new repositories. (GNOME bug 566698)
Finally, during this 10th week of the summer of code, students were hard at work, some noticeable advancements:
- Paul A. Bellamy successfully implemented syncing and a properties dialog for MTP devices in Rhythmbox;
- Neil Loknath added streaming to Banshee using Telepathy, you can now stream a contact’s music after downloading their library info;
- Paulo Cabido merged the plugin engine with Getting Things Gnome main development branch.

This week… 1889 commits, in 207 projects, by 235 happy hackers (and 407 were translation commits).

The Git migration happened, and 84 commits were about doap files, and 44 about .gitignore files.
gnome-netstatus, empathy and gnome-dictionary (from gnome-utils, GNOME bug 577943) all switched to GtkBuilder.
libgdata added support for ETags, to allow for versioning when querying, updating and deleting entries. (GNOME bug 578661)
A new plugin has been added to eog, to order images randomly in slideshow mode. (GNOME bug 562135)
Libchamplain got support for more advanced markers, allowing to set many properties on markers, allowing features such as attached image or text and how if should be displayed (wrapped, ellipsized, etc.). (GNOME bug 576055)
Matthew Barnes updated gnome-video-arcade to make game play back work again with recent MAME releases.
Sabayon was updated to use Xephyr instead of Xnest.
Xan Lopez fixed backwards search in Epiphany Find Toolbar.
Empathy got a new “join chatroom” dialog, which will only load the room list when the rooms are displayed.
Seed imports system was changed to match the one in gjs, making it easier to port applications between them. Robert Carr posted details in some Seed updated.

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