Issue 47
August 30, 2009
This week… 3183 commits, in 208 projects, by 294 happy hackers (and 1032 were translation commits).
- In gnome-disk-utility David Zeuthen landed the new ATA SMART user interface.
- Rhythmbox gained support for downloading cover art from discogs.com and MusicBrainz (GNOME bug 410684).
- The libchamplain map widget gained support for keyboard shortcuts, to navigate and zoom the map. (GNOME bug 582872)
- Ekiga switched to boost for both smart pointers and signals (GNOME bug 575005)
- The “kill-bonobo” branch of Evolution is now the “master” git branch, this marked 45 old bugs as fixed.
- gconf-editor has been ported to PolicyKit 1.0. (GNOME bug 585596)
- A shutter sound will now be played when taking a screenshot (GNOME bug 592372).
- Gnome Shell improved the way it displays search results, it now has bigger fonts and brighter colour for the headings, and more padding.
- Daniel Elstner worked on the C++ bindings so they could get their API references published on library.gnome.org.
- Jean Bréfort moved gnumeric to use GooCanvas instead of FooCanvas.
- Finally devhelp has been ported to make use of libunique.
Top projects
| Project | Commits |
|---|---|
| empathy | 158 |
| tracker | 136 |
| gtk+ | 111 |
| gimp | 101 |
| evolution | 97 |
| kupfer | 97 |
| f-spot | 79 |
| brasero | 75 |
| glib | 73 |
| tomboy | 52 |
Top authors
| Author | Commits | Modules |
|---|---|---|
| Ulrik Sverdrup | 97 | kupfer |
| Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio | 89 | empathy, evolution-mapi, libgweather and others |
| Michael Natterer | 86 | gimp, gtk+ |
| Daniel Elstner | 85 | mm-common, libsigc++2, gtkmm and others |
| Frederic Peters | 75 | jhbuild, devhelp, library-web and others |
| Martyn Russell | 57 | tracker |
| Felix I | 54 | empathy, evolution, evolution-data-server and others |
| Behdad Esfahbod | 53 | vte, pango |
| Matthew Barnes | 52 | evolution, evolution-data-server, evolution-exchange and others |
| Matthias Clasen | 49 | gtk+, glib, gconf and others |