GNOME Commit-Digest

This week… 2144 commits, in 230 projects, by 307 happy hackers (and 681 were translation commits).

• Banshee got a new Youtube extension (GNOME bug 576666).
• Nautilus has been changed to load tracker/beagle at runtime. (GNOME bug 589345)
• Support for GObject introspection has been added to gnome-menus (GNOME bug 598406)
• gnome-settings-daemon got its code to eject removable media rewritten to use gio (instead of spawning the eject command). (GNOME bug 580779)
• GNOME Shell has been updated to support and require Clutter 1.2 (GNOME bug 610679)
• Yelp, in its yelp-3-0 branch, got a new ocation dropdown, with two-line entries, displaying both title and description. Shaun McCance blogged about this change in More Yelp 3.0 Location Entry.
• David Zeuten added rudimentary support for loop files to GNOME Disk Utility. (screenshot)
• To follow up on the usabiltiy report Empathy was changed to sort contacts by state and to show offline contacts by default (GNOME bug 612338).
• Milan Bouchet-Valat added support for password (un)locking to system-tools-backends.
• Dan Williams modified the network manager applet to handle and show access technology for GSM connections (GSM, GPRS, UMTS, etc.)
• Evince has been updated to use monitor height instead of screen height to calculate page scale in presentation mode; this fixes the presentation mode in dual head setups. (GNOME bug 608924)

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