The History of GNOME Emmanuele Bassi
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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
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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
Customer Reviews
A trusted source
Hear a history of the GNOME project from a trusted source who has an intimate and often direct knowledge of many of the events. Very detailed and accurate. Only criticism is about the bit of digital noise in the recording.