GNOME Commit-Digest

Issue 174

fredp — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:31:02 +0000

This week… 1611 commits, in 183 projects, by 205 happy hackers (and 216 were translation commits).

In gnome-themes-standard Lapo Calamandrei started using PNGs as assets where possible, instead of SVG files.
Many introspection improvements landed in gjs (support for interfaces, signals, glib properties…), Jasper St. Pierre blogged about GJS Improvements.
Matthias Clasen added a systemd implementation of the session tracking part of gnome-session . (GNOME bug 666891)
David King added an horizontal flip effect to gnome-video-effects . (GNOME bug 666930)
Jasper St. Pierre added back a “popularity” field to extensions.gnome.org.
Empathy was updated by Will Thompson to present confirmation dialogs when closing windows containing chat rooms . (GNOME bug 591756)
In gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow fixed rich text import from xslx files . (GNOME bug 669083)
Faghmie Davids contributed many improvements to the Firebird provider of libgda.
In gnome-shell Owen Taylor improved the default screencast pipeline, decreasing the quality setting for the vp8 codec from 10 to 8, and increasing the speed setting from 2 to 6 . (GNOME bug 669066)
Stefano Palazzo contributed a Python 3 language file for gtksourceview . (GNOME bug 668136)
Alexander Larsson updated gnome-contacts to use a dialog for avatar changing.
Patricia Santana Cruz changed cheese to use PackageKit to install nautilus-sendto when needed; she wrote about this: PackageKit in Cheese . (GNOME bug 668072)
Damien Sandras reimplemented call control functions into the new Ekiga call window.
In gnome-games Robert Ancell ported uadrapassel from C++ to Vala.
Claudio Saavedra updated eog to hide the titlebar when maximized . (GNOME bug 668652)
In gedit Jesse van den Kieboom added an option to ensure that documents always end with a trailing newline.

Top projects

Project	Commits
gtk+	171
vala	68
baobab	62
gjs	55
evolution-data-server	50
glom	46
nautilus-actions	44
gnome-games	43
ostree	42
glib	41

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Matthias Clasen	73	gtk+, glib, gnome-session and others
Jasper St. Pierre	71	gjs, extensions-web, gobject-introspection and others
Cosimo Cecchi	69	gtk+, gnome-themes-standard, nautilus and others
Daniel Mustieles	52	glabels, nautilus-actions, evolution-data-server and others
Colin Walters	50	ostree, ostree-init, gobject-introspection and others
Chao-Hsiung Liao	48	gnome-terminal, gnome-games, gtksourceview and others
Benjamin Otte	48	gtk+, gnome-themes-standard, glib
Murray Cumming	44	glom, libgda, libepc and others
Paolo Borelli	42	baobab, gtksourceview, gnome-themes-standard and others
Ryan Lortie	39	baobab, gnome-games, jhbuild and others

Issue 173

fredp — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:20:29 +0000

This week… 1871 commits, in 231 projects, by 217 happy hackers (and 219 were translation commits).

In librsvg Christian Persch improved the decoding of data: URIs.
Cosimo Cecchi changed gnome-screenshot to make non interactive mode headless, making it just save the image to the saved screenshots directory.
Aurimas Černius added core synchronization support to gnote.
Carlos Garcia Campos pushed some initial work porting devhelp to WebKit2; he later posted details about the port and the process (porting devhelp to WebKit2).
Milan Crha added support for setting user’s folder permissions into evolution-mapi . (GNOME bug 667714)
Oleksij Rempel switched Cheese from theora/ogg to vp8/webm.
In gparted Rogier Goossens added the ability to set a new random UUID on file systems that provide the appropriate tools to perform this action . (GNOME bug 667278)
Will Thompson added support for functions which return GError into pygobject . (GNOME bug 666098)
Alexander Larsson added a first run dialog to gnome-contacts.
Matthias Clasen added a resource tool to glib, this lets the developer poke at resources in elf files and standalone resource bundles.
James Le Cuirot contributed the possibility to align text vertically into glabels.
In gthumb Paolo Bacchilega added High quality zoom for SVG images.
Adel Gadllah moved filesystem I/O to a thread when taking a screenshot in gnome-shell . (GNOME bug 652952)
Florian Brosch contributed support for comments to the GIR parser in Vala.
Pascal de Bruijn made gnome-color-manager use smaller/faster display calibration target sets.

Top projects

Project	Commits
gtk+	151
libgda	89
vala	85
epiphany	78
clutter	61
glom	46
gnome-control-center	45
evolution-data-server	43
glib	43
valadoc	39

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Kjartan Maraas	110	=?utf-8?q?=5Bgnome-contacts=5D_Updated_Norwegian_bokm=C3=A5l_translation?=, =?utf-8?q?=5Bgnome-control-center=5D_Updated_Norwegian_bokm=C3=A5l_transl?= =?utf-8?q?ation?=, =?utf-8?q?=5Bgtk+=5D_Updated_Norwegian_bokm=C3=A5l_translation?= and others
Daniel Mustieles	80	gnome-games, gnome-disk-utility, evolution-mapi and others
Vivien Malerba	63	libgda
Luca Bruno	60	vala
Jasper St. Pierre	54	gjs, extensions-web, gnome-shell and others
Matej Urbančič	51	glom, libgda, gnumeric and others
Emmanuele Bassi	51	clutter, glib, cogl
Xan Lopez	51	epiphany, glib
Cosimo Cecchi	49	gnome-screenshot, gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon and others
Florian Brosch	47	valadoc, vala, libgee

Issue 172

fredp — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:09:49 +0000

This week… 1964 commits, in 174 projects, by 203 happy hackers (and 247 were translation commits).

Maciej Piechotka added a ArrayQueue data structure to libgee.
Patches from Christophe Fergeau to port sound-juicer to musicbrainz4 have landed at last.
In Banshee Andrés Aragoneses split RockBox support co into its own class.
Krzesimir Nowak changed rygel to append extensions to served files.
Bastien Nocera added support for pairing the iCade into gnome-bluetooth.
Shaun McCance improved Yelp by making Mallard documents auto-reload on changes.
In Tomboy Aaron Borden fixed template syncing . (GNOME bug 665679)
In gnome-contacts Alexander Larsson added support for changing the primary address book.
Zeeshan Ali changed gnome-boxes to add devices based on what is supported by the OS; the information about device support comes from libosinfo . (GNOME bug 666739)
Matthias Clasen added optional systemd support to gnome-packagekit, to make it use systemd instead of ConsoleKit for rebooting . (GNOME bug 666788)
Joseph Scheuhammer contributed a dialog for zoom options into the universal access control center panel . (GNOME bug 643086)
David Zeuthen merged his udisks2 port of gnome-disk-utility.
In GLib Dan Winship added multicast-related functions to GSocket . (GNOME bug 626589)
Alexia Death added axis labels to dynamics curves and curveview in Gimp.
Patricia Santana Cruz added videos and picture sharing support, via nautilus-sendto, to Cheese . (GNOME bug 522210)

Top projects

Project	Commits
clutter	151
gtk+	139
epiphany	86
evolution	64
glib	64
gnome-shell	57
gnome-contacts	56
libgda	47
gnome-bluetooth	45
gnome-control-center	38

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Emmanuele Bassi	135	clutter, gnome-shell
Daniel Mustieles	75	pan2, gnome-games, anjuta and others
Matthew Barnes	75	evolution, evolution-data-server, gnome-video-arcade and others
Bastien Nocera	74	gnome-bluetooth, gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon
Matthias Clasen	69	gtk+, glib, gconf and others
Colin Walters	62	ostree, linux-user-chroot, gjs and others
Alexander Larsson	62	gnome-contacts, gtk+, glib and others
Xan Lopez	62	epiphany
David Zeuthen	52	gnome-disk-utility, gvfs
Cosimo Cecchi	49	nautilus, epiphany, gnome-documents and others

Issue 171

fredp — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:26:21 +0000

This week… 1971 commits, in 211 projects, by 183 happy hackers (and 253 were translation commits).

Owen Taylor correct memory management for singletons in gjs.
In gparted Mike Fleetwood contributed resize support to nilfs2 . (GNOME bug 642842)
Zeeshan Ali changed gnome-boxes to use floppy image only for Windows express install, switching to emulating a USB drive for other images . (GNOME bug 666956)
Christian Persch reimplemented .svgz support into rsvg-view.
Federico Mena Quintero merged his docking-stations branch into gnome-settings-daemon, this lets docking stations work better in the light of plugging external monitors.
Matthias Clasen added optional systemd support to the user accounts panel of gnome-control-center . (GNOME bug 666573)
Milan Crha improved the performance of the addressbook cache of evolution-data-server . (GNOME bug 644817)
In gnome-system-monitor Krishnan Parthasarathi contributed a new Process Properties dialog . (GNOME bug 543347)
Shaun McCance updated mal2html conversion to reflow grid and 2column links on small screens.
In Banshee Olivier Dufour added xesam:userRating field in track metadata . (GNOME bug 665997)
Jean Bréfort fixed formula interpretation in plot series in Gnumeric . (GNOME bug 662237)
In Epiphany Xan Lopez made the visible name of the application always be ‘Web’ ;. (GNOME bug 666587)
Rob Bradford added a basic implementation of GtkClipboard for Wayland into GTK+.

Top projects

Project	Commits
gtk+	496
gnome-control-center	104
glib	69
nautilus-actions	56
glom	53
baobab	50
epiphany	49
nautilus	47
clutter	47
gimp	40

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Benjamin Otte	349	gtk+, glib
Jiro Matsuzawa	78	totem, gnome-control-center, accerciser and others
Bastien Nocera	76	gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon, totem and others
Cosimo Cecchi	61	nautilus, gnome-themes-standard, gtk+ and others
Alexander Larsson	48	glib, gtk+, nautilus and others
Pierre Wieser	47	nautilus-actions
Murray Cumming	47	glom, java-libglom, gtk+ and others
Ryan Lortie	46	baobab, gtk+, json-glib and others
Daniel Mustieles	46	gnome-games, glom, nautilus-actions and others
Matthias Clasen	42	gtk+, glib, gnome-control-center and others

Issue 170

fredp — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:15:30 +0000

This week… 2045 commits, in 177 projects, by 185 happy hackers (and 242 were translation commits).

In librsvg Christian Persch reworked rsvg-view to make it more modern, dropping GTK+ 2, using Cairo surfaces, GIO, etc.
Murray Cumming changed Glom to allow custom choices to be translated when used for text fields.
Neil Roberts added support for mainloop integration to cogl.
Claudio Saavedra updated eog to make it possible to scale the print preview using the scrollwheel . (GNOME bug 495716)
Marc-André Lureau added GtkApplication and shell menu to gnome-boxes . (GNOME bug 667435)
In Evolution Milan Crha added a Print button to the meeting notification dialog . (GNOME bug 353743)
Marina Zhurakhinskaya updated the way notification sources are grouped in gnome-shell, to base it on a combination of pid and title . (GNOME bug 664138)
In glib Ryan Lortie added new ‘add’ and ‘contains’ APIs to GHashTable, these are both convenience APIs that make it slightly nicer to use GHashTable as a set.
Matthias Clasen had various GtkApplication changes, including a new Inhibit API and logout notifications.
Robert Ancell ported a bunch of gnome-games to use GSettings: gnotski, gnibbles, and gnect.
Germán Poo-Caamaño replaced the old local cooked sockets by the use of nmap for basic port scanning in gnome-nettool.

Top projects

Project	Commits
gtk+	295
pan2	293
clutter	112
gnome-games	104
libgda	83
vala	68
nautilus-actions	68
evolution	60
glib	53
baobab	52

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Heinrich Müller	227	pan2
Benjamin Otte	190	gtk+
Emmanuele Bassi	101	clutter, gtk+, gnomeweb-wml
Pierre Wieser	63	nautilus-actions
Vivien Malerba	58	libgda
Luca Bruno	55	vala
Paolo Borelli	54	baobab, gtk+, gedit and others
Ryan Lortie	53	baobab, glib, gtk+ and others
Andy Spencer	47	grits
Robert Ancell	42	gnome-games

Issue 169

fredp — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:21:56 +0000

This week… 803 commits, in 123 projects, by 135 happy hackers (and 178 were translation commits).

Emmanuele Bassi added a special diagnostic mode to Clutter, to be used to mark deprecated virtual functions and other run-time constructs.
John Ralls pushed the conversion of gtk-mac-integration to the gobject-introspectable structure.
In libchamplain Jiří Techet added a Python champlain-gtk demo with markers, thanks to Nicolas Évrard.
Vivien Malerba improved the timestamp entry widget of libgda.
Zeeshan Ali added a sound card device to VMs of gnome-boxes.
In Orca Joanmarie Diggs had various event manager improvements.
Murray Cumming improved the “Related Choices” Glom field to allow the user to specify a sort order.
Sergey V. Udaltsov fixed rendering of the layout list in the “add layout” popup of gnome-control-center region panel.
In gnome-games Robert Ancell ported iagno from C to Vala.
Dov Grobgeld introduced initial remote control of giv through jsonrpc.
In goffice Andreas J. Guelzow fixed chinese number rendering.
Morten Welinder updated gnumeric to handle unicode signs better.
In glib Ravi Sankar Guntur fixed the handling of ‘\v’ (vertical tab) in g_strescape() and g_strcompress (). (GNOME bug 664830)

Top projects

Project	Commits
gtk+	129
gnome-games	99
glib	34
gimp	32
glom	27
vala	24
gnumeric	20
cheese	19
gedit	17
gcompris	15

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Benjamin Otte	64	gtk+
Robert Ancell	59	gnome-games
Carlos Garnacho	33	gtk+
Matthias Clasen	24	glib, gtk+, gdk-pixbuf
Muhammet Kara	24	gimp, almanah, alleyoop and others
Murray Cumming	22	glom
Yaron Shahrabani	21	gnome-games, epiphany, zenity and others
Luca Bruno	21	vala
Morten Welinder	20	gnumeric, goffice
Mario Blättermann	18	gimp, gnome-system-monitor, glabels and others

Issue 168

fredp — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:14:10 +0000

This week… 1842 commits, in 176 projects, by 213 happy hackers (and 233 were translation commits).

Kai Willadsen changed meld to draw the currently displayed page area in the DiffMap . (GNOME bug 470729)
In Eog Felix Riemann made EXIF/XMP summaries available as a sidebar . (GNOME bug 616438)
Xavier Claessens added Windows Live oauth2 support to gnome-online-accounts . (GNOME bug 661067)
Claudio Saavedra combined the Reload and Stop toolbar buttons of Epiphany into a single one . (GNOME bug 657655)
Cosimo Cecchi did work on gnome-documents new application menu.
In Evolution Milan Crha made it possible to decrypt GPG mails with anonymous recipient set . (GNOME bug 331361)
Jonathan Matthew added extdb, a database for storing external metadata (e.g. album art images), to Rhythmbox.
Stef Walter added system prompt and prompter to gcr.
Giovanni Campagna reintroduced Wanda The Fish into gnome-shell.
Jeffrey Stedfast fixed gmime with regards to multibyte sequences split between two rfc2047 tokens.
Yasumichi Akahoshi changed Zenity documentation to use Mallard, and did new and updated screenshots to go along.
In Banshee Bertrand Lorentz added a button to go back to the list of audiobooks . (GNOME bug 656439)

Top projects

Project	Commits
gtk+	296
longomatch	103
glib	57
gnome-themes-standard	51
anjuta	42
empathy	41
gnome-contacts	41
ostree	38
evolution	36
gnome-games	36

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Matthias Clasen	113	gtk+, glib, gnome-shell and others
Andoni Morales Alastruey	101	longomatch
Rui Matos	80	gtk+, gnome-themes-standard
Xandru Armesto	79	gnome-power-manager, gnome-panel, gvfs and others
Ryan Lortie	68	gtk+, glib, gnome-games and others
Colin Walters	63	ostree, gtk+, gnome-shell and others
Daniel Mustieles	57	gnome-commander, file-roller, empathy and others
Alexander Larsson	55	gnome-contacts, glib
Lapo Calamandrei	45	gnome-themes-standard, gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
Stef Walter	42	gcr, gnome-keyring, seahorse and others

Issue 167

fredp — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:04:13 +0000

This week… 1782 commits, in 171 projects, by 230 happy hackers (and 189 were translation commits).

Philip Chimento converted Devhelp from IgeMacIntegration to GtkOSXApplication, a change necessary to build on 64-bit Macs . (GNOME bug 663789)
In rhythmbox Jonathan Matthew used some special cow powers to made password prompts work properly . (GNOME bug 666338)
In gnome-themes-standard Lapo Calamandrei continued working on unfocused window appearance, styling radio, checks, sliders, progressbars and scrollbars.
Juan A. Suarez Romero updated the shoutcast plugin in grilo-plugins to the SHOUTCast 2.0 API.
Zeeshan Ali added some UI to gnome-boxes for specifying product key (Windows XP & 2003 ). (GNOME bug 666030)
Alexander Larsson added support for unlinking contacts to gnome-contacts.
Jakub Steiner updated gnome-color-manager colorimeter artwork.
Alex Murray added automatic dimming / toggling to keyboard backlight to gnome-settings-daemon power plugin.
Work on the Firebird provider, by Faghmie Davids, was pushed into libgda.
In Evince Cyril Soldani added an option to show odd pages on the left in dual mode.
Andreas J. Guelzow fixed LaTeX export of cyrillic in Gnumeric . (GNOME bug 666340)
In Rygel Jens Georg added hacks for XBMC to recognize DLNA mime-types as AAC for AAC files.
Robert Roth contributed to gnome-system-monitor a patch to summarize the processor cores to be able to display sysinfo for multi-core systems with more than 13 cores . (GNOME bug 664926)
Christian Persch added a lock button the the drwright break window . (GNOME bug 128381)

Top projects

Project	Commits
gtk+	240
tracker	109
gnome-contacts	80
evolution	77
glib	57
cogl	56
libgda	45
epiphany	36
gimp	35
gdk-pixbuf	34

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Benjamin Otte	110	gtk+
Alexander Larsson	80	gnome-contacts, gtk+
Matthias Clasen	73	gdk-pixbuf, gtk+, glib and others
Aleksander Morgado	45	tracker
Neil Roberts	43	cogl
Bastien Nocera	40	gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-control-center, jhbuild and others
Marek Černocký	39	gnome-commander, gnote, libgda and others
Carlos Garnacho	37	gtk+, tracker
Rui Matos	36	gtk+
Daniel Mustieles	34	evolution, conglomerate, file-roller and others

Issue 166

fredp — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:42:45 +0000

This week… 1703 commits, in 159 projects, by 210 happy hackers (and 183 were translation commits).

Steven Carr introduced support for the VNC audio tunnel extension to gtk-vnc.
Bastien Nocera updated gnome-settings-daemon to use libwacom to get tablets metadata.
A new “Change Passphrase” dialog was added to gnome-disk-utility by David Zeuthen.
Lapo Calamandrei did work on the unfocused windows appearance in gnome-themes-standard.
Jasper St. Pierre added a RSS feed to the extensions.gnome.org website.
Various client side wayland support updates by Robert Bragg made their way into cogl.
Paolo Bacchilega modified gthumb “edit metadata” dialog to allow saving the metadata without closing the dialog.
In gnome-boxes Zeeshan Ali made various improvements to the express installation of Fedora and Windows VM . (GNOME bug 665803)
In Orca Joanmarie Diggs began work on label inference (aka “label guess”) functionality for WebKitGtk content.
Zan Dobersek contributed a fix to gnome-shell to make sure the window labels are visible at all times . (GNOME bug 644861)
GMenu* support has landed into GLib.
In GTK+ Cosimo Cecchi ported GtkStatusIcon to use GtkIconHelper . (GNOME bug 665409)

Top projects

Project	Commits
cogl	143
glib	121
clutter	100
gtk+	97
gimp	74
tracker	46
glom	41
nautilus-actions	38
evolution-kolab	35
ostree	34

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Matthias Clasen	81	glib, gtk+, byzanz
Robert Bragg	75	cogl, clutter
Neil Roberts	68	cogl
Emmanuele Bassi	61	clutter
Ryan Lortie	58	glib, gtk+, dconf and others
Daniel Mustieles	44	gnome-commander, evolution, gthumb and others
Morten Welinder	40	goffice, libgsf, gnumeric
Murray Cumming	40	glom
Colin Walters	38	ostree, glib, mutter
Jens Georg	35	rygel, gupnp, gssdp and others

Issue 165

fredp — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:14:22 +0000

This week… 2239 commits, in 150 projects, by 214 happy hackers (and 137 were translation commits).

Heinrich Müller added flagging of individual articles in Pan . (GNOME bug 651307)
Mario Sanchez Prada replaced the adblock epiphany extension by a port of Midori adblocker, which is compatible with the EasyList subscriptions for “AdBlock Plus” ;. (GNOME bug 660154)
Dan Winship added server-side session cache support to glib-networking gnutls backend . (GNOME bug 636574)
Colin Walters updated gnome-settings-daemon to monitor for gnome-shell presence, and update the Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu property accordingly.
Vibha Yadav contributed support for delegation in evolution-ews . (GNOME bug 656376)
In gnome-screensaver Antoine Jacoutot implemented OpenBSD authentication using bsd_auth (instead of PAM ). (GNOME bug 651554)
Seif Lotfy added a new dashboard plugin to gedit, it displays a grid of recently/most used files upon opening a new tab . (GNOME bug 663466)
Tom Tryfonidis contributed a redesign of the about: pages of Epiphany . (GNOME bug 665136)
Alan Knowles added an (experimental) xorg extension to seed.
In Orca Joanmarie Diggs added support for speech presentation of embedded object characters in WebKitGtk content.
Milan Crha added “Listen for server notifications” option to mail, address book, and calendar parts of evolution-mapi.
Rob Bradford added a first version of a “baremetal” backend for EGL on KMS to cogl.
Takeshi Kurosawa contributed support for basic vertical writing to librsvg . (GNOME bug 664533)

Top projects

Project	Commits
gimp	343
pan2	220
gtk+	191
glib	92
gnome-themes-standard	89
cogl	79
glom	72
tracker	65
vala	59
extensions-web	58

Top authors

Author	Commits	Modules
Mukund Sivaraman	189	gimp
Heinrich Müller	172	pan2
Matthias Clasen	100	gtk+, glib
Michael Natterer	81	gimp
Colin Walters	73	ostree, gtk+, gnome-settings-daemon and others
Murray Cumming	73	glom, gtkmm, java-libglom
Jasper St. Pierre	69	extensions-web, gjs, gnome-shell and others
Cosimo Cecchi	66	gtk+, gnome-themes-standard, gnome-control-center and others
Ryan Lortie	62	gtk+, glib
Lapo Calamandrei	58	gnome-themes-standard