The History of GNOME

A side episode! We’re going to take a look to GTK in its first major API cycle

A side episode! Building GNOME is complicated; releasing GNOME is even worse. We’re going to see what tools GNOME developers used to build GNOME 2.

The GNOME 2 release process meant re-evaluating everything that makes a desktop environment: from its design, to the design of all of its applications, to the release process, to the interaction of settings and preferences.

A wild GTK major API change appears! It uses better text and icon rendering. It’s super effective! GNOME dons flame retardant pants. It’s not very effective!

A retrospective on GNOME 1.x, before we launch into the main narrative of GNOME 2; we’re going to look back at what GNOME 1 did right; what it did wrong; and what it meant in the larger context of the history of the project

A side episode! Early applications in the GNOME 1.x era

A side episode! Language bindings in the early GNOME era take the front stage

GNOME 1.4 gets released, and development work for GNOME 2 being in earnest; but things come crashing down once the Dot com bubble bursts, and GNOME loses an ally

Exciting times for the GNOME project. The first GUADEC is held in Paris! The Foundation gets founded! Plus: CVS and Bugzilla!

New companies form around GNOME! Ximian and Eazel work on making GNOME useful for corporate environments and casual users, and start shaping the technology stack with components for applications to use and reuse.