This changed when efforts led to the creation of the GNOME Shell. Originally, the plan was to make only incremental changes and avoid disruption for users. In 2008, an increasing discontent among community and developers about the lack of project direction and technical progress prompted the announcement of GNOME 3.0. This screenshot shows GNOME Weather running on GNOME Shell, both in version 3.14 (September 2014) GNOME 3 has a modern approach to user interface design and naming the applications. As of 4 May 2014, the GNOME wiki only mentions "GNOME/GTK applications that are useful in an office environment". Although some release planning for GNOME Office 1.2 was happening on gnome-office mailing list, and Gnumeric 1.4 was announced as a part of it, the 1.2 release of the suite itself never materialized. On 15 September 2003 GNOME-Office 1.0, consisting of AbiWord 2.0, GNOME-DB 1.0, and Gnumeric 1.2.0, was released. De Icaza and Nat Friedman founded Helix Code (later Ximian) in 1999 in Massachusetts this company developed GNOME's infrastructure and applications and was purchased by Novell in 2003.ĭuring the transition to GNOME 2 and shortly thereafter, there were brief talks about creating a GNOME Office suite. The California startup Eazel developed the Nautilus file manager from 1999 to 2001. The name "GNOME" was initially an acronym of GNU Network Object Model Environment, referring to the original intention of creating a distributed object framework similar to Microsoft's OLE, but the acronym was eventually dropped because it no longer reflected the vision of the GNOME project. GNOME proceeded to remove mentions of any link to GNU from their code and documentation. In 2021, GNOME Executive Director Neil McGovern publicly tweeted that GNOME was not a GNU project and that he had been asking GNU to remove GNOME from their list of packages since 2019 in 2021, GNOME was removed from the list. GNOME used to be part of the GNU Project, but that is no longer the case. GNOME itself is licensed under the LGPL for its libraries, and the GNU General Public License (GPL) for its applications. GTK uses the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), a free software license that allows software linking to it to use a much wider set of licenses, including proprietary software licenses. In place of Qt, GTK (GNOME Toolkit, at that time called GIMP Toolkit) was chosen as the base of GNOME. It was founded in part because K Desktop Environment, which was growing in popularity, relied on the Qt widget toolkit which used a proprietary software license until version 2.0 (June 1999). GNOME was started on 15 August 1997 by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena as a free software project to develop a desktop environment and applications for it. It is an international project that aims to develop frameworks for software development, to program end-user applications based on these frameworks, and to coordinate efforts for internationalization, localization and accessibility of that software. GNOME is developed by the GNOME Project, which is composed of both volunteers and paid contributors, the largest corporate contributor being Red Hat. GNOME is the default desktop environment of many major Linux distributions, including Debian, Endless OS, Fedora Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Ubuntu, and Tails it is also the default in Oracle Solaris, a Unix operating system. GNOME ( / ɡ ə ˈ n oʊ m, ˈ n oʊ m/), originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. C, XML, C++, C#, HTML, Vala, Python, JavaScript, CSS, and more
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