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Ubuntu GNOME (formerly Ubuntu GNOME Remix) is a discontinued Linux distribution, distributed as free and open-source software. It used a pure GNOME 3 desktop environment with GNOME Shell, rather than the Unity graphical shell. Starting with version 13.04 it became an official "flavour" of the Ubuntu operating system. [1] [2]
Eye of GNOME is the former default image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it had also been known as Image Viewer. It has been superseded by Loupe in GNOME 45. [ 2 ] There is also another official image viewer for GNOME called gThumb that has more advanced features like image organizing and image editing functions.
Loupe, also known as Image Viewer, is an image viewer created for the GNOME desktop environment. It first appeared on December 26, 2020. [1] With the GNOME 45 update, Loupe became GNOME's default image viewer, replacing Eye of GNOME. [2] [3] Like its predecessor, Loupe offers various options for viewing images.
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.
Ubuntu releases are also given code names, using an adjective and an animal with the same first letter – an alliteration, e.g., "Dapper Drake".With the exception of the first two releases, code names are in alphabetical order, and except for the first three releases, the first letters are sequential, allowing a quick determination of which release is newer.
Instead Ubuntu 11.10 used the Qt-based Unity 2D for users whose hardware cannot support the 3D version. [41] [76] However, the classic GNOME desktop (GNOME Panel) can be installed separately in Ubuntu 11.10 and later versions through gnome-panel, a package in the Ubuntu repositories. [77]
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 uses GNOME Shell by default since 17.10, October 2017, after Canonical ceased development of Unity. [36] It has been available for installation in the repositories since version 11.10. [ 37 ] An alternative flavor, Ubuntu GNOME , was released alongside Ubuntu 12.10, [ 38 ] and gained official flavor status by Ubuntu 13.04.