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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.
GNOME 2 was released in June 2002 [59] [60] and was very similar to a conventional desktop interface, featuring a simple desktop in which users could interact with virtual objects such as windows, icons, and files. GNOME 2 started out with Sawfish as its default window manager, but later switched to Metacity in GNOME 2.2.
GNOME Logo. Free and open-source software portal; GNOME is a computer desktop environment for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. It is the official desktop of the GNU Project. This category contains articles related to GNOME. For related companies, see Category:GNOME_companies. For People, see Category:GNOME_developers
Gnopernicus was a free GNOME desktop application that provided Assistive Technologies (AT) for blind and visually impaired users. Gnopernicus is no longer actively developed and has been replaced by Orca in GNOME. Gnopernicus is a "one-size-fits-all" screen reader that provided speech, Braille, and magnification for users with a range of visual ...
Its succession as the ongoing focus of The GNOME Project was the impetus for the fork of GNOME 2 known as the MATE desktop environment as well as the creation of the Cinnamon desktop environment, which follows more traditional desktop metaphor conventions. The first adoption of GNOME 3 in a major Linux distribution was version 15 of Fedora ...
GUADEC logo, used since 2013 Desktop Summit is the convergence of GUADEC and Akademy. Photography from GUADEC in 2012. GUADEC, formerly the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference, is an annual developer conference whose prime topic is the development of the GNOME desktop environment and its underlying base software such as GTK, GStreamer, etc.
GNOME also participated in the Desktop Summit, which is a joint conference organized by the GNOME and KDE communities that was held in Europe in 2009 and 2011. [ 8 ] Among the project's community programs is Outreachy , established with the goals of increasing women participation and improving the resources available to all newcomers for ...
Sample of the Clearlooks 2.20 theme with various applications. Clearlooks is a theme for GTK, the main widget toolkit used by the GNOME desktop environment. It is based on Red Hat's Bluecurve theme. It was the default theme for GNOME since version 2.12 until GNOME 3 when it was replaced by Adwaita. [1]