Issue 123

February 13, 2011

This week… 2038 commits, in 188 projects, by 238 happy hackers (and 359 were translation commits).

  • Saleem Abdulrasool added support for magic-based identification of files in file-roller.
  • Ignacio Casal Quinteiro changed gtksourceview to use a different draw for narrowed non breaking spaces. (GNOME bug 626126)
  • Also in gtksourceview the M4 syntax highlighting was updated for all current Autoconf-and-friends macros, by Philip Chimento.
  • Xan Lopez ported Epiphany floating statusbar to use the new overlay widget from gedit.
  • Shaun McCance removed the bookmarks editor dialog from Yelp, instead it’s now possible to mark and unmark bookmarked pages with an icon in the location entry.
  • In pygobject Martin Pitt made Gio.Settings behave like a dictionary, with transparent conversion from and to GVariants, this makes it more comfortable to use. (GNOME bug 640838)
  • Chris Kühl continued on his port of GNOME System Monitor to GTK+ 3, switching libraries after a lot of cleanup work.
  • Giovanni Campagna made GNOME Shell extensions translatable.
  • Christian Persch made possible to postpone Dr Wright break immediately. (GNOME bug 621640)
  • Michal Hruby added a zeitgeist dataprovider plugin to Totem.
  • Paolo Bacchilega added the ability to search and filter files with a single tag in gthumb. (GNOME bug 633884)
  • Several rhythmbox plugins were ported to use GObject Introspection by Jonathan Matthew.
  • In the region control center panel Sergey V. Udaltsov made layout filtering much faster.
  • Florian Müllner updated the shell app view to use larger icons, to match the mockups. (GNOME bug 639428)

Top projects

Project Commits
tracker 170
gtk+ 167
gnome-control-center 86
gnome-shell 83
pan2 75
gimp 74
empathy 71
libchamplain 61
libgda 47
glib 40

Top authors

Author Commits Modules
Matthias Clasen 76 gtk+, glib, vinagre and others
Bastien Nocera 74 gnome-control-center, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gnome-screensaver and others
K. Haley 65 pan2
Michael Natterer 64 gimp, gtk+
Philip Van Hoof 63 tracker
Jiří Techet 61 libchamplain
Aleksander Morgado 61 tracker
Garrett Regier 52 libpeas, gitg, gedit and others
Juan A. Suarez Romero 45 grilo-plugins, grilo
Kjartan Maraas 40 evolution-data-server, gnome-control-center, libgnomeui and others