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Sabayon Linux uses the latest version of GNOME Shell. openSUSE's GNOME edition has used GNOME Shell since version 12.1 in November 2011. [30] Mageia 2 and later include GNOME Shell, since May 2012. [31] Debian 8 and later features GNOME Shell in the default desktop, since April 2015. [32] [33] Solaris 11.4 replaced GNOME 2 with GNOME Shell in ...
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 first adoption of GNOME 3 in a major Linux distribution was version 15 of Fedora Linux. [17] Canonical, who had stopped contributing to the GNOME 3 codebase, chose to break from bundling a GNOME Shell for Ubuntu, [15] and instead released its Unity shell. Canonical eventually began using a customized version of the GNOME Shell in 2017, when ...
Ubuntu originally used the full GNOME desktop environment; Shuttleworth cited philosophical differences with the GNOME team over the user experience to explain why Ubuntu would use Unity as the default user interface instead of GNOME Shell, beginning April 2011, with Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal).
GNOME Software is a utility for installing applications and updates on Linux.It is part of the GNOME Core Applications, and was introduced in GNOME 3.10. [3]It is the GNOME front-end to the PackageKit, in turn a front-end to several package management systems, which include systems based on both RPM and DEB.
Phosh (portmanteau of phone and shell) is a graphical user interface designed for mobile and touch-based devices initially developed by Purism.The project is maintained and developed by a diverse community, and is the default shell used on several mobile Linux operating systems including PureOS, Mobian and Fedora Phosh.
GNOME 2 was released on June 26, 2002 at the Linux Symposium in Ottawa. [8] Starting with GNOME 2.4, a timed release cadence was adopted, which called for a new version to be released roughly every six months. This effectively resulted in new stable GNOME versions being released every September and March of any given year.
Metacity / m ə ˈ t æ s ɪ t i / [2] was the default window manager used by the GNOME 2 desktop environment [3] [4] until it was replaced by Mutter in GNOME 3. [5] It is still used by GNOME Flashback, a session for GNOME 3 that provides a similar user experience to the Gnome 2.x series sessions.