Issue 135

May 8, 2011

This week… 2114 commits, in 197 projects, by 213 happy hackers (and 355 were translation commits).

  • Dodji Seketeli added initial support for “jump to” in Nemiver. (GNOME bug 560235)
  • Ryan Lortie added support for lockdown to dconf.
  • Colin Walters updated gjs to support compilcation with the standalone mozjs185 release. (GNOME bug 646369)
  • Rupert Swarbrick rewrote the way info files are read in yelp, fixing bugs and making the logic much simpler in the process.
  • Ignacio Casal Quinteiro ported gdl to use GtkStyleContext. (GNOME bug 649258)
  • Richard Hugues added a new notify_notification_set_app_name() function to libnotify, to set the application name for a single notification, this makes it possible for a daemon like gnome-settings-daemon to produce persistent messages with the correct application name. (GNOME bug 648947)
  • Eitan Isaacson merged the “geometry” branch of Caribou, bringing some major changes such as coupling keyboard layout with xkb state, simplifying layout format, a new introspectable libcaribou library, and a D-Bus UI, to have the main caribou app activate the keyboard via D-Bus.
  • Elad Alfassa added support for globally installed gnome shell themes in the “user-theme” extension.
  • Cosimo Cecchi added a progressbar-pattern style property to the Adwaita engin.
  • In clutter Robert Bragg removed the last dependency on the GdkPixbuf API.
  • Xavier Claessens added a chat theme preview to Empathy preferences window. (GNOME bug 541438)
  • Bastien Nocera changed the media keys gnome-settings-daemon plugin to use a symbolic icon for Eject.
  • Stefano Pettini added proper support for alpha channel in the rotate tool of gthumb.
  • Torsten Schönfeld wrapped more parts of the Cairo API to Perl.
  • Andreas J. Guelzow made Gnumeric handle MS Works formula. (GNOME bug 649406)
  • Mattias Clasen added a new “lock button” widget to GTK+ (GNOME bug 626457) as well as a new style for assistants.

Top projects

Project Commits
gtk+ 240
evolution 91
empathy 91
tracker 82
clutter 81
vte 65
glib 61
gimp 61
gnome-commander 57
vala 49

Top authors

Author Commits Modules
Matthew Barnes 108 evolution, evolution-data-server, evolution-exchange and others
Alberto Ruiz 88 gtk+, planet-web
Benjamin Otte 77 gtk+, glib
Christian Persch 71 vte, gnome-games, gnome-terminal and others
Marek Černocký 66 pybliographer, gnome-commander, fantasdic and others
Robert Bragg 61 clutter, cogl
Matthias Clasen 59 gtk+, glib, gnome-settings-daemon and others
Abduxukur Abdurixit 58 evolution-data-server, gtk+, gnome-shell and others
Daniel Korostil 53 banshee, gnome-packagekit, emerillon and others
Daniel Mustieles 53 gnome-commander, empathy, clutter and others