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GNOME -- a bright future lies ahead

Christian Meyer

GNOME Deutschland LinuxDays 2003 What is GNOME?

• A modern Desktop Environment for -like operating systems (, *BSD, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Darwin) • Easy to use • Widely accepted by companies (SUN, , HP, IBM, RedHat, ...) • Community-driven (code is under the (L)GPL)

LinuxDays 2003 The history of GNOME (1)

• Project was started back in 1997 by • Should be completely based upon (L)GPL • GNOME 1.0: released in March 1999 (later 1.0.55, known as October GNOME) • GNOME 1.2: released in May 2000 • GNOME 1.4: released in April 2001 LinuxDays 2003 The history of GNOME (2)

• SUN: GNOME to become default Desktop under Solaris (in favor of the old CDE) • GNOME Foundation founded in August 2000 (members: SUN, HP, IBM, RedHat, and others) • GNOME 2.0: released in June 2002 (major rewrite, much cleaner user interface)

LinuxDays 2003 The history of GNOME (3)

• ~ 6 monthly release cycle • GNOME 2.2: released in February 2003 (just 8 months after 2.0!) • GNOME 2.4: released in September 2003 (7 months) • GNOME 2.6: ~ March 2004 (we’ll make it this time :-) )

LinuxDays 2003 Features of GNOME

• Very clean user interface • Very easy to use • Very fast, even on small machines • SUN ran an usability study and contributed the accessibility framework --> very interesting for disabled people

LinuxDays 2003 Core applications

• Filemanager Nautilus (it’s come a long way) • Webbrowser Epiphany (lean and mean ;-) ) • GNOME Panel (very flexible) • GNOME Applets (little embeddable programs for the GNOME Panel)

LinuxDays 2003 Core applications (cont.)

• GNOME Utilities (Text editor, Calculator, ..) • GNOME Multimedia (audio/video/CD player, mixer, ...) • GNOME Games (everybody wants to have some fun :-) )

LinuxDays 2003 GNOME Office

• Version 1.0 released in September this year • Currently consists of Abiword, and GNOME-DB • One of the best import/export filters • Very well integrated

LinuxDays 2003 GStreamer

• Multimedia framework for GNOME (and KDE) • plugin based (approx. 150 plugins available) • and GNOME-Media use it • v0.8 will be shipped with GNOME 2.6

LinuxDays 2003 Things to come... or why GNOME 2.6 will be even better

• Visual: new filechooser dialog (yes!!!), spatial (OO) Nautilus • much improved GTK+/GNOME API (new widgets which will make life easier) • new MIME-type system • Overall improvements regarding speed and memory consumption

LinuxDays 2003 Where can I get GNOME?

• GNOME comes with your favorite distro • via RedCarpet from XIMIAN • Source can be downloaded from: ftp://ftp..org • Use garnome or cvsgnome for your convenience

LinuxDays 2003 Where can I help?

• Report bugs to http://bugzilla.gnome.org • Share your ideas -- they are welcome! • Translate GNOME into your own language -->http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/ • If you’re a : drop a mail to a maintainer

LinuxDays 2003 Resources...

• GNOME homepage: http://www.gnome.org • Community site: http://www.gnomedesktop.org • Developer site: http://developer.gnome.org • IRC: irc.gnome.org (6667) #gnome

LinuxDays 2003 Questions?

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