Issue 99
August 29, 2010
This week… 2512 commits, in 181 projects, by 248 happy hackers (and 596 were translation commits).
- The synctex plugin, to synchronize TeX files and PDF output, has been merged into gedit-plugins.
- Both Lapo Calamandrei and Jakub Steiner worked on the metacity/mutter theme for GNOME 3.
- Nate Stedman added alpha support to backgrounds in Ease.
- A “save as PDF” plugin has been added to Gimp, thanks to Barak Itkin. (GNOME bug 382688)
- Andreas J. Guelzow added progress info support to the ODF export feature of Gnumeric.
- Batch operation support for both Calendar and Documents services has been added to libgdata. (GNOME bug 624141, GNOME bug 624142)
- Christopher Roy Bratusek made the applications menu of Sawfish honour NotShowIn and OnlyShowIn.
- Interactive TLS certification verification has been merged into Empathy. (GNOME bug 626848)
- Jonh Wendell split the reverse VNC feature of Vinagre into its own plugin, and ported it to GSocket, making reverse connections work with both IPv4 and IPv6. (GNOME bug 626981)
- Cosimo Cecchi updated the design of the Nautilus sidebar, categorizing items with headings, a screnshot is available. (GNOME bug 508404)
- f-spot completed its port to GtkBuilder. (GNOME bug 589702)
- Thomas Wood implemented a new UI design for the background preference panel.
- Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen ported both gnotravex and gnotski to cairo. (GNOME bug 625444)
- Gustavo Noronha Silva wrapped the geolocation support provided by WebKitGTK+ in Epiphany, using info bars to present policy requests to the user. (GNOME bug 626687)
- GDateTime, an opaque data type containing a date and time representation, has been added to GLib. (GNOME bug 50076)
- Benjamin Otte completed the second part of his GTK+ 3 rendering cleanup work, and posted a status report to the gtk-devel-list.
Top projects
| Project | Commits |
|---|---|
| gtk+ | 524 |
| empathy | 187 |
| tracker | 142 |
| vala | 105 |
| ease | 71 |
| glib | 52 |
| gimp | 47 |
| gobject-introspection | 38 |
| anjuta | 37 |
| evolution | 37 |
Top authors
| Author | Commits | Modules |
|---|---|---|
| Carlos Garnacho | 234 | gtk+, tracker |
| Javier Jardón | 181 | gtk+ |
| Philip Withnall | 125 | empathy, folks, libgdata and others |
| Cosimo Cecchi | 83 | empathy, nautilus |
| Luca Bruno | 70 | vala, gobject-introspection |
| Benjamin Otte | 61 | gtk+, gnome-applets, libgnomekbd and others |
| Guillaume Desmottes | 57 | empathy, jhbuild |
| Bruno Brouard | 52 | evolution, gtk+, epiphany and others |
| Nate Stedman | 51 | ease |
| Alexander Shopov | 49 | gnome-control-center, gnome-media, gconf and others |
August 30, 2010 at 8:39 am
Hi Fred
Thanks for the thousand posts you did to keep us informed about GNOME and GTK+ developement.
This is an invaluable contributions, that I wait every week and then.
Bug thanks.