Issue 79

April 11, 2010

This week… 2112 commits, in 176 projects, by 296 happy hackers (and 263 were translation commits).

  • Martin Szulecki added detection of the ipad to gvfs AFC backend (GNOME bug 615039).
  • Rhythmbox has been updated to use webkit to display HTML episode descriptions of podcasts. (GNOME bug 320507)
  • Flickr authentication code has been unified in gthumb, removing duplicated code.
  • In Rygel Andreas Henriksson added basic support for serving subtitles in Samsung custom DIDL-Lite and HTTP extensions. (GNOME bug 606305)
  • The Totem Youtube plugin has been fixed to work again with latest youtube.com pages changes. (GNOME bug 614679)
  • Tomas Bzatek changed the GTK+ file chooser so that it initializes search engines on demand. (GNOME bug 614971)
  • Banshee for Meego saw another major panel UI overhaul, to reflect the latest Meego look and feel, and better organize some of the features.
  • Ray Strode added support for relocatable .gnome2 directory to both gnome-games (GNOME bug 613634) and yelp (GNOME bug 614029), this is done via the GNOME22_USER_DIR environment variable.
  • Joanmarie Diggs added to Orca support for the detection of mispelled words in OpenOffice.org. (GNOME bug 364772)
  • libsoup has been updated with a fix for proxies that close the connection after returning a 407 error code (Proxy Authentication Required) on a CONNECT request.
  • Florian Müllner added introspection support to gconf (GNOME bug 613247)
  • Philip Withnall improved cancellation support in libgdata, it is now using libsoup message cancellation functionality, rather than checking for cancellation ourselves at arbitrary points during operations.
  • GNOME Shell support for IM notifications has been moved to use Telepathy. (GNOME bug 608999)

Top projects

Project Commits
gtk+ 466
tracker 150
evolution 121
empathy 71
vala 59
anjuta 53
banshee 52
evolution-data-server 44
glom 38
gcalctool 36

Top authors

Author Commits Modules
Matthias Clasen 111 gtk+, accounts-dialog, gnome-games
Javier Jardón 87 gtk+, giggle, gnome-nettool and others
Guillaume Desmottes 61 empathy, jhbuild
Matthew Barnes 58 evolution, evolution-data-server, evolution-mapi and others
Tristan Van Berkom 44 gtk+
Federico Mena Quintero 44 evolution, gnome-desktop, gnome-settings-daemon and others
Martyn Russell 40 tracker, gtk+
Sebastian Dröge 38 vala
Murray Cumming 37 glom, gtkmm, gtk+ and others
Philip Van Hoof 34 tracker