Issue 127
March 13, 2011
This week… 2634 commits, in 197 projects, by 272 happy hackers (and 670 were translation commits).
- Andrew McGrath added support for plain text exportation in ocrfeeder.
- Robert Ancell updated dconf-editor to show the key range in key descriptions.
- Based on a patch from Mark Starovoytov Dan Winship fixed libsoup to catch overflows when parsing very distant expiration dates in cookies. (GNOME bug 643462)
- John Stowers added a user-theme extension to the gnome-shell-extensions repository. (GNOME bug 644271)
- Ray Strode made it so that gdm runs the gnome-session acceleration helper script, to preload the GL stack and figure out ahead of time whether or not gnome shell can run on the system.
- Marek Kasik updated the printers plugin of gnome-settings-daemon to show notifications for selected printer state changes (things liek “tuner low”).
- Jakub Steiner worked on the Cantarell font, fixing all ~ accented glyphs. (GNOME bug 642396)
- Steve Frécinaux enabled Python support for eog plugins. (GNOME bug 639597)
- Martin Robinson made the serif font the default web font of Epiphany, to match the behaviour of other browsers. (GNOME bug 644523)
- GObject Introspection support as been added to libcheese by Luciana Fujii Pontello.
- Dan Winship changed gnome-shell to use the new libmutter-wm library, to build a real gnome-shell binary (GNOME bug 641724)
- Bastien Nocera added some code to reorder date widgets in the date/time panel, to be based on the locale’s date format, rather than only supporting the US-centric version. (GNOME bug 636896)
- And William Jon McCann ripped GNOME Screensaver of its theme and job support.
Top projects
| Project | Commits |
|---|---|
| tracker | 117 |
| empathy | 94 |
| gtk+ | 90 |
| pygtk | 82 |
| gdm | 81 |
| gnome-shell | 80 |
| gnome-control-center | 78 |
| cheese | 67 |
| libpeas | 64 |
| vala | 63 |
Top authors
| Author | Commits | Modules |
|---|---|---|
| Piotr Drąg | 82 | ekiga, gnome-control-center, gnome-nettool and others |
| Dieter Verfaillie | 78 | pygtk |
| Olav Vitters | 68 | sysadmin-bin, brasero, libsoup and others |
| Ray Strode | 65 | gdm |
| Marek Černocký | 55 | gnumeric, goffice, gbrainy and others |
| Cosimo Cecchi | 54 | gnome-themes-standard, gconf-editor, gtk+ and others |
| Matthias Clasen | 53 | gnome-session, glib, gtk+ and others |
| Guillaume Desmottes | 47 | empathy, jhbuild |
| Bastien Nocera | 46 | totem, gnome-control-center, gnome-settings-daemon and others |
| Rudolfs Mazurs | 46 | gnome-panel, gucharmap, ekiga and others |