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The first concepts for GNOME Shell were created during GNOME's User Experience Hackfest 2008 in Boston. [7] [8] [9]After criticism of the traditional GNOME desktop and accusations of stagnation and lacking vision, [10] the resulting discussion led to the announcement of GNOME 3.0 in April 2009. [11]
With the release of GNOME 3.2, shell extensions as a feature, similar to the "applet" of GNOME 2, was added. Such extensions allow developers the ability to add modular, separately-versioned customizations to the desktop environment, without having to integrate code directly into the mainline GNOME codebase.
Beginning with GNOME 3.8, GNOME provides a suite of officially supported GNOME Shell extensions that provide an Applications menu (a basic start menu) and a "Places menu" on the top bar and a panel with a windows list at the bottom of the screen that lets users quickly minimize and restore open windows, a "Show Desktop" button in the bottom ...
The GNOME Core Applications (also known as Apps for GNOME) are a software suite of software applications that are packaged as part of the standard free and open-source GNOME desktop environment. GNOME Core Applications have a consistent look and feel to the GNOME desktop, utilize the Adwaita design language and tightly integrate with the GNOME ...
Mutter can function as a standalone window manager for GNOME-like desktops, and serves as the primary window manager for the GNOME Shell, [5] which is an integral part of GNOME 3. Mutter is extensible with plug-ins, and supports numerous visual effects. GNOME Shell is written as a plug-in to Mutter.
GNOME Shell – the desktop graphical GUI shell introduced with GNOME version 3.0; Cinnamon fork of the GNOME Shell; GNOME Panel and forks – applications launcher; Maynard, a shell for Weston by Collabora originally for the Raspberry Pi; Budgie is a distro-agnostic desktop environment
sushi was first introduced in GNOME Shell 3.2. [2] Its sole purpose is to preview files in Nautilus, [3] which can be invoked by hitting the spacebar while selecting a file. sushi's abilities extend from the GStreamer framework, enabling the playback of all content which GStreamer supports, by default and through plugins.
As an implementation, it exists as the default theme and icon set of the GNOME Shell and Phosh, and as widgets for applications targeting usage in GNOME. Adwaita first appeared in 2011 with the release of GNOME 3.0 as a replacement for the design principles used in Clearlooks , [ 2 ] and with incremental modernization and refinements, continues ...