Issue 174
February 5, 2012
This week… 1611 commits, in 183 projects, by 205 happy hackers (and 216 were translation commits).
- In gnome-themes-standard Lapo Calamandrei started using PNGs as assets where possible, instead of SVG files.
- Many introspection improvements landed in gjs (support for interfaces, signals, glib properties…), Jasper St. Pierre blogged about GJS Improvements.
- Matthias Clasen added a systemd implementation of the session tracking part of gnome-session. (GNOME bug 666891)
- David King added an horizontal flip effect to gnome-video-effects. (GNOME bug 666930)
- Jasper St. Pierre added back a “popularity” field to extensions.gnome.org.
- Empathy was updated by Will Thompson to present confirmation dialogs when closing windows containing chat rooms. (GNOME bug 591756)
- In gnumeric Andreas J. Guelzow fixed rich text import from xslx files. (GNOME bug 669083)
- Faghmie Davids contributed many improvements to the Firebird provider of libgda.
- In gnome-shell Owen Taylor improved the default screencast pipeline, decreasing the quality setting for the vp8 codec from 10 to 8, and increasing the speed setting from 2 to 6. (GNOME bug 669066)
- Stefano Palazzo contributed a Python 3 language file for gtksourceview. (GNOME bug 668136)
- Alexander Larsson updated gnome-contacts to use a dialog for avatar changing.
- Patricia Santana Cruz changed cheese to use PackageKit to install nautilus-sendto when needed; she wrote about this: PackageKit in Cheese. (GNOME bug 668072)
- Damien Sandras reimplemented call control functions into the new Ekiga call window.
- In gnome-games Robert Ancell ported uadrapassel from C++ to Vala.
- Claudio Saavedra updated eog to hide the titlebar when maximized. (GNOME bug 668652)
- In gedit Jesse van den Kieboom added an option to ensure that documents always end with a trailing newline.
Top projects
| Project | Commits |
|---|---|
| gtk+ | 171 |
| vala | 68 |
| baobab | 62 |
| gjs | 55 |
| evolution-data-server | 50 |
| glom | 46 |
| nautilus-actions | 44 |
| gnome-games | 43 |
| ostree | 42 |
| glib | 41 |
Top authors
| Author | Commits | Modules |
|---|---|---|
| Matthias Clasen | 73 | gtk+, glib, gnome-session and others |
| Jasper St. Pierre | 71 | gjs, extensions-web, gobject-introspection and others |
| Cosimo Cecchi | 69 | gtk+, gnome-themes-standard, nautilus and others |
| Daniel Mustieles | 52 | glabels, nautilus-actions, evolution-data-server and others |
| Colin Walters | 50 | ostree, ostree-init, gobject-introspection and others |
| Chao-Hsiung Liao | 48 | gnome-terminal, gnome-games, gtksourceview and others |
| Benjamin Otte | 48 | gtk+, gnome-themes-standard, glib |
| Murray Cumming | 44 | glom, libgda, libepc and others |
| Paolo Borelli | 42 | baobab, gtksourceview, gnome-themes-standard and others |
| Ryan Lortie | 39 | baobab, gnome-games, jhbuild and others |
February 6, 2012 at 7:32 pm
So how does we unmaximize a window if the titlebar is gone when maximized?
I currently pull the window by the titlebar to unmaximize in GNOME 3.2. This was very discoverable because it’s the opposite action/reaction of dragging a window by it’s titlebar to the top of the screen to maximize.
February 6, 2012 at 9:32 pm
You can drag using the menubar.