GNOME -- a bright future lies ahead Christian Meyer <[email protected]> GNOME Deutschland LinuxDays 2003 What is GNOME? • A modern Desktop Environment for UNIX-like operating systems (Linux, *BSD, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Darwin) • Easy to use • Widely accepted by companies (SUN, Novell, 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 Miguel de Icaza • 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, Ximian 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, Gnumeric 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) • Rhythmbox 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.gnome.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 programmer: 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? LinuxDays 2003.