Issue 119
January 16, 2011
This week… 2282 commits, in 191 projects, by 251 happy hackers (and 480 were translation commits).
- Giovanni Campagni created a gnome-shell-extensions repository, to host extensions modifying and extending GNOME Shell functionality and behavior, at the moment there are two extensions: alternate-tab (a replacement for Alt-Tab, allows to cycle between windows and does not group by application), and xandr-indicator (a systems status menu for rotating monitors)
- Andreas J. Guelzow fixed locale specific sotring in Gnumeric. (GNOME bug 638874)
- Philip Withnall had to limit Totem to displaying videos in the formats authorized by YouTube’s terms of service, Bastien Nocera had a blog post about this, YouTube playback will suck again.
- Paolo Bacchilega modified file-roller to use the new GTK+ app chooser dialog for the “Open With” command.
- Robert Ancell added a “set to default” button to dconf-editor.
- The Vala rewrite of glchess has been merged in gnome-games.
- In gnome-utils Cosimo Cecchi ported both the screenshot tool and the log viewer to GSettings.
- A keyboard layout selector has been added to the Shell, the indicator is shown when more than one group is loaded in X and it is not disabled in GSettings. (GNOME bug 600771)
- Jon McCann added some real informations to the new system info panel of gnome-control-center.
- Lucas Rocha added the ability to move multiple things at once in the board.
- The gedit-collaboration plugin has been updated to use the new asynchronous SASL API for authentication, by Jesse van den Kieboom.
- Luciana Fujii changed Cheese to use camerabin as pipeline base, in the “camerabin” branch.
- In Yelp Rupert Swarbrick added code to make links from strings of the form “blah(2)” in man pages.
- Philip Withnall improved the Google backend for contacts in evolution-data-server, to support categorising contacts in groups. (GNOME bug 566441)
- Tiffany Antopolski continued adding and filling pages for the new GNOME documentation, with a serie of pages about window managements in the Shell.
Top projects
| Project | Commits |
|---|---|
| tracker | 252 |
| gtk+ | 216 |
| nautilus | 89 |
| glade3 | 63 |
| gtkmm | 53 |
| gnome-shell | 51 |
| vala | 45 |
| banshee | 43 |
| gnome-control-center | 40 |
| evolution-data-server | 40 |
Top authors
| Author | Commits | Modules |
|---|---|---|
| Philip Van Hoof | 174 | tracker |
| Cosimo Cecchi | 84 | nautilus, gnome-utils, gtk+ and others |
| Matthias Clasen | 74 | gtk+, gnome-desktop, glib and others |
| Jürg Billeter | 71 | tracker, vala |
| Tristan Van Berkom | 70 | glade3, gtk+, glade-web |
| Murray Cumming | 60 | gtkmm, cluttermm, pygda and others |
| Fran Diéguez | 53 | gtk+, gpointing-device-settings, gnome-control-center and others |
| Carlos Garnacho | 46 | gtk+ |
| Yaron Shahrabani | 39 | banshee, gnome-utils, gnome-games and others |
| Matthew Barnes | 36 | evolution, evolution-data-server, gtkhtml and others |