Gnome Shell

The GNOME Shell is a technology developed as part of Gnome component that is responsible for the work environment for desktop PCs with unixartigem operating system.

History

The first concept for the GNOME Shell was built on the Gnome UI Hackfest 2008 in Boston.

After criticism of the classic Gnome desktop, stagnation, lack of vision of the project and the discussion arising from the Gnome release team announced in April 2009 to the development of Gnome 3.0. Since then, the development of GNOME Shell reinforced by Red Hat promoted.

Preliminary versions are supplied with the program package gnome since version 2:28 of September 2009. Since the publication of the first finished version has been postponed several times in tandem with Gnome 3.0. First, they should be held in March 2010, then September 2010. Finally she was released on 6 April 2011 as the default interface of Gnome 3.0.

In October 2010, the Linux distributor Canonical announced not to extradite the Gnome Shell as the default interface of Ubuntu. Instead, the in-house development Unity should take their place. Since Canonical but never participated in the Gnome Shell, whose development is not affected by this decision.

Gnome Shell 3.2 was released on September 28, 2011. With this release, many little things to be improved, which have been criticized after the release of Gnome Shell 3.0. Main feature is the improved access to cloud applications, since accounts are summarized in Google and other services in the new program called Gnome Online Accounts.

Features

Gnome Shell is built on a completely new concept that aims to distract the user as little as possible of the current activity.

The changes in the work environment include:

  • A new view activities that replaces inter alia, the functions of the taskbar, consisting of: A quick launch bar to quickly be able to start programs or change
  • An overview of open windows similar to Exposé in Mac OS X, on the desktops can be changed
  • A search that both programs can be started with as well as the Internet can be searched

Technical Basics

The Gnome Shell is written in C and JavaScript and uses the native Intel program library Clutter for the surface, and Gnomes own frameworks and components such as the Metacity successor mother as the only fully compatible Composition and window manager.

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