Issue 101

September 12, 2010

This week… 2395 commits, in 184 projects, by 268 happy hackers (and 494 were translation commits).

  • Travis Reitter commited a folks-import tool, which allows importing of Pidgin meta-contact information to libfolks’ key file (GNOME bug 629084). He announced it as Folks 0.1.17 includes a migration tool.
  • Nathaniel Harward contributed Shotwell support to Conduit.
  • Luis Medinas replaced the last part of dbus-glib by GDBus in Brasero.
  • A new tablet icon, and a revamped generic phone icon were pushed to gnome-icon-theme by Jakub Steiner.
  • Maxim Ermilov added support for optionally attaching modal dialogs in Mutter, and made use of this new feature in GNOME Shell, adding some visual effects along the way. (GNOME bug 612726)
  • Also in GNOME Shell Milan Bouchet-Valat ported the built-in magnifier to use GSettings. (GNOME bug 622414)
  • In Nemiver Hubert Figuiere ported from libglademm to GtkBuilder, and Dodji Seketeli added support for “filename:linenum” in the set breakpoint dialog.
  • W. Michael Petullo fixed sharing of music by Rhythmbox to iTunes 10 over DAAP. (GNOME bug 628974)
  • Gabriel Burt made many improvements to the bookmark editing feature of pdfmod, including undo/redo support.
  • Ignacio Casal Quinteiro made the interactive search of gedit the default search function, it used to be called using ctrl-k.
  • The new GDatetime support in GLib has been updated to use the Proleptic Gregoian calendar instead of the Julian calendar in its internal representation.
  • Support for XPS documents has been added to Evince; Carlos Garcia Campos announced it in XPS Documents.

Top projects

Project Commits
gtk+ 324
gnome-games 110
vala 101
tracker 95
evolution 62
gimp 62
evolution-data-server 59
gthumb 58
gobject-introspection 54
empathy 50

Top authors

Author Commits Modules
Benjamin Otte 167 gtk+, glib
Pablo Castellano 88 gnome-games, jhbuild
Philip Withnall 72 totem, folks, empathy and others
Jürg Billeter 56 vala, tracker
Paolo Bacchilega 52 gthumb
Vincent Untz 52 gnome-panel, gnome-desktop, libwnck and others
Murray Cumming 52 glom, gtkmm, goocanvasmm and others
Tim Janik 50 beast
Martyn Russell 46 tracker
Duarte Loreto 43 gdk-pixbuf, evince, gnome-media and others