Issue 100

September 5, 2010

This week… 2545 commits, in 212 projects, by 256 happy hackers (and 731 were translation commits).

  • Eitan Isaacson added a checkbox to use the default colour theme when highlighring keys in Caribou. (GNOME bug 622246)
  • Joanmarie Diggs added support for object toolkis in Orca, this allows Orco to handle cases where multiple toolkits are used in an application. (GNOME bug 628410)
  • Philip Withnall merged his port of Totem to GSettings. (GNOME bug 625896)
  • Gabriel Burt pushed a first pass at Bookmarks support for pdfmod, this adds a sidebar treeview that shows the existing bookmarks, and it’s possible to edit or remove them, as well as adding new bookmarks.
  • Colin Walters merged his major rewrite of girscanner, and more, in gobject-introspection.
  • Support for multi-coloured text layers has been added to Gimp by Michael Natterer, on top of an initial patch by Barak Itkin. (GNOME bug 620674)
  • Florian Müllner added support for the text-shadow property in GNOME Shell. (GNOME bug 624384)
  • Support for the MPRIS v2 API has been added to Banshee, this will allow external applications to interact with Banshee through a standard D-Bus API. (GNOME bug 570841)
  • Jonh Wendell added an instant messaging status plugin to Vinagre, that changes the status to busy when the application is switched to full screen mode.
  • A backend using the Windows Registry has been added by Sam Thursfield to GSettings.
  • Benjamin Otte updated the screenshot tool from gnome-utils to not draw directly to the root window anymore, updating the look of area selection along the way. (GNOME bug 628499)

Top projects

Project Commits
gtk+ 222
tracker 158
glib 112
empathy 100
gobject-introspection 78
epiphany 78
totem 58
vala 58
evolution 47
gimp 46

Top authors

Author Commits Modules
Philip Withnall 133 empathy, totem, folks and others
Matthias Clasen 88 gtk+, glib, nautilus-sendto and others
Philip Van Hoof 82 tracker
Gabor Kelemen 64 gcalctool, gnome-keyring, gtk+ and others
Christian Persch 60 glib, gnome-games, vte and others
Benjamin Otte 57 gtk+, gtk-engines, gnome-utils
Murray Cumming 56 gtkmm, glom, glibmm and others
Colin Walters 54 gobject-introspection, gjs, gtk+ and others
Michael Kotsarinis 43 empathy, hamster-applet, gnome-settings-daemon and others
Dirgita 43 gtk+, caribou, nautilus-sendto and others

One Response to “Issue 100”


  1. Congrats on number 100!


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