The History of GNOME

Emmanuele Bassi
  • 5.0 (3)
  • TECHNOLOGY

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

  1. 03/14/2019

    Episode 1.a: The GIMP Toolkit

    A side episode! We’re going to take a look to GTK in its first major API cycle

    14 min

  2. 02/24/2019

    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.

    12 min

  3. 02/24/2019

    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.

    16 min

  4. 02/24/2019

    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!

    18 min

  5. 02/24/2019

    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

    14 min

  6. 02/24/2019

    Episode 1.c: Applications

    A side episode! Early applications in the GNOME 1.x era

    10 min

  7. 02/24/2019

    Episode 1.b: Bindings

    A side episode! Language bindings in the early GNOME era take the front stage

    7 min

  8. 02/24/2019

    Episode 1.5: End of the road

    GNOME 1.4 gets released, and development work for GNOME 2 being in earnest; but things come crashing down once the Dot com bubble bursts, and GNOME loses an ally

    16 min
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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

Information

  • Creator
    Emmanuele Bassi
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2019
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2018 Emmanuele Bassi
  • Show Website
    The History of GNOME