The History of GNOME Emmanuele Bassi
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- Tecnología
GNOME is made by people, same as history; and just like people, history can be complicated, repeating, funny, sad, and everything in between. This is my attempt at compiling an history of the GNOME project
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Episode 1.a: The GIMP Toolkit
A side episode! We’re going to take a look to GTK in its first major API cycle
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Episode 2.a: Building GNOME
A side episode! Building GNOME is complicated; releasing GNOME is even worse. We’re going to see what tools GNOME developers used to build GNOME 2.
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Episode 2.2: Release Day
The GNOME 2 release process meant re-evaluating everything that makes a desktop environment: from its design, to the design of all of its applications, to the release process, to the interaction of settings and preferences.
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Episode 2.1: On Brand
A wild GTK major API change appears! It uses better text and icon rendering. It’s super effective! GNOME dons flame retardant pants. It’s not very effective!
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Episode 2.0: Retrospective
A retrospective on GNOME 1.x, before we launch into the main narrative of GNOME 2; we’re going to look back at what GNOME 1 did right; what it did wrong; and what it meant in the larger context of the history of the project
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Episode 1.c: Applications
A side episode! Early applications in the GNOME 1.x era