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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]
GNOME 3 is the third major release of the GNOME desktop environment. A major departure from technologies implemented by its predecessors, GNOME 3 introduced a dramatically different user interface. It was the first GNOME release to utilize a unified graphical shell known as GNOME Shell.
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 ...
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.
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 Console is a terminal emulator for the GNOME Desktop Environment. It originated as a terminal emulator specifically for the Phosh mobile interface, which needed an adaptive terminal emulator. [11] Since GNOME version 42 it has been a part of the default app set for GNOME, replacing GNOME Terminal. [12] [13]
Metacity (GNOME) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Mutter (GNOME/MeeGo) Yes Yes Yes Yes Gnome Shell No Yes Moody: Motif Window Manager (mwm) No No Yes No [h] Openbox: Yes Depends [c] Yes Yes Depends [c] No Yes PekWM: Yes No Yes Partial No Yes Yes PlayWM [citation needed] Yes No Yes Yes Yes No Yes Qtile: Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Ragnar: Ratpoison: No No ...
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