Issue 114

December 12, 2010

This week… 1805 commits, in 169 projects, by 212 happy hackers (and 260 were translation commits).

  • Kenny Meyer added a tab to the context pane of Rhythmbox with links to websites for album and artist info. (GNOME bug 636550)
  • Philip Withnall switched many of the libgdata API to be stream-based, he wrote about his libgdata work in “Recent libgdata work“.
  • Shaun McCance added syntax highlighting for code snippets in Yelp.
  • The Murrine GTK+ engine has been turned into a GtkThemingEngine by Andrea Cimitan, while Carlos Garnacho did the same for the clearlooks engine in gtk-theme-engine-clearlooks.
  • David Pellicer added scanning support to the Caribou onscreen keyboard.
  • Detection of TLS and SSL support has been added to the FTP backend in gvfs.
  • Carlos Garnacho added the beginning of a CSS-based theme to gnome-themes-standard.
  • Diego Escalante Urrelo added nice custom error pages to Epiphany. (GNOME bug 592667)
  • Tomas Bzatek added a check to gnome-settings-daemon, to detect if Nautilus is running, as it is no longer possible to rely on having Nautilus a key component in the session. (see GNOME bug 636191 for details).
  • Carlos Garcia Campos added a new sidebar page for bookmarks in Evince, it allows to add, remove, and rename internal bookmarks.
  • Daniel G. Siegle added new effects contributed by Filippo Argiolas to gnome-video-effects, and added a fade-in animation when switching effect page in Cheese.
  • Johannes Schmid ported Anjuta to G(tk)Application.
  • Bastien Nocera added a “network time” switch to the datetime control center panel.
  • The Quartz backend in GTK+ has been ported to the latest rendering-cleanup changes by Kristian Rietveld.
  • Brandon Lewis implemented the saving of presets in Pitivi.
  • The participants to the doc dev tools hackfest contributed a serie of tutorials and demos to the gnome-devel-docs module.

Top projects

Project Commits
gtk+ 195
libgdata 113
pitivi 85
tracker 67
gnome-control-center 55
nautilus 55
empathy 45
gtk-theme-engine-clearlooks 45
glabels 42
gnome-devel-docs 42

Top authors

Author Commits Modules
Philip Withnall 111 libgdata
Matthias Clasen 92 gtk+, jhbuild, gtk-theme-engine-clearlooks and others
Tristan Van Berkom 71 gtk+
Brandon Lewis 59 pitivi
Cosimo Cecchi 50 nautilus, gtk+, gtk-theme-engine-clearlooks
Carlos Garnacho 48 gtk-theme-engine-clearlooks, gnome-themes-standard, gtk+
Mario Blättermann 42 glabels, gthumb, pitivi and others
Murray Cumming 40 gtkmm, gtkmm-documentation, pangomm and others
Bastien Nocera 38 totem, gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon and others
Dan Winship 38 libsoup, glib-networking, glib and others