GNOME 1, the Glossary
GNOME 1 is the first major release of the GNOME desktop environment.[1]
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Andy Hertzfeld
Andrew Jay Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) is an American software engineer who was a member of Apple Computer's original Macintosh development team during the 1980s.
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Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
Applet
In computing, an applet is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a dedicated widget engine or a larger program, often as a plug-in.
Application binary interface
In computer software, an application binary interface (ABI) is an interface between two binary program modules.
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Bonobo (GNOME)
Bonobo is an obsolete component framework for the GNOME free desktop environment.
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C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
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CNET
CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.
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Common Desktop Environment
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is a desktop environment for Unix and OpenVMS, based on the Motif widget toolkit.
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Compaq
Compaq Computer Corporation (sometimes abbreviated to CQ prior to the 2007 rebranding) was an American information technology company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services.
Component Object Model
Component Object Model (COM) is a binary-interface technology for software components from Microsoft that enables using objects in a language-neutral way between different programming languages, programming contexts, processes and machines.
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Computer configuration
In communications or computer systems, a configuration of a system refers to the arrangement of each of its functional units, according to their nature, number and chief characteristics.
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Debian
Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software and optionally non-free firmware or software developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993.
Desktop environment
In computing, a desktop environment (DE) is an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system that share a common graphical user interface (GUI), sometimes described as a graphical shell.
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In computing, the desktop metaphor is an interface metaphor which is a set of unifying concepts used by graphical user interfaces to help users interact more easily with the computer.
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Eazel
Eazel was an American software company operating from 1999 to 2001 in Palo Alto and then Mountain View, California.
Enlightenment (window manager)
Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a compositing window manager for the X Window System.
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File manager
A file manager or file browser is a computer program that provides a user interface to manage files and folders.
Free and open-source software
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge.
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Free software
Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).
Geeknet
Geeknet, Inc. is an American company that is a subsidiary of GameStop based in Fairfax County, Virginia.
GIMP
GNU Image Manipulation Program, commonly known by its acronym GIMP, is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks.
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GNOME
GNOME, originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. GNOME 1 and GNOME are 1999 software and GNU Project.
GNOME 2
GNOME 2 is the second major release of the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME 1 and GNOME 2 are GNOME.
GNOME Files
GNOME Files, formerly and internally known as Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop.
GNOME Foundation
GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Orinda, California, United States, which works to coordinate the efforts in the GNOME project. GNOME 1 and GNOME Foundation are GNOME.
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GNOME Panel
GNOME Panel is a highly configurable taskbar for GNOME.
GNOME Project
GNOME Project is a community behind the GNOME desktop environment and the software platform upon which it is based.
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. GNOME 1 and GNU General Public License are GNU Project.
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GNU Project
The GNU Project is a free software, mass collaboration project announced by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983.
Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
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GTK
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free software cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). GNOME 1 and GTK are GNOME.
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GUADEC
GUADEC, formerly the GNOME Users And Developers European Conference, is an annual developer conference whose prime topic is the development of the GNOME desktop environment and its underlying base software such as GTK, GStreamer, etc. GNOME 1 and GUADEC are GNOME.
Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
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HP-UX
HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on Unix System V (initially System III) and first released in 1984.
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York and present in over 175 countries.
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Inter-process communication
In computer science, inter-process communication (IPC), also spelled interprocess communication, are the mechanisms provided by an operating system for processes to manage shared data.
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International Conference on Software Engineering
The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences.
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Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems.
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IRC
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging.
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K Desktop Environment 1
K Desktop Environment 1 was the inaugural series of releases of the K Desktop Environment.
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KDE
KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software.
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Library (computing)
In computer science, a library is a collection of read-only resources that is leveraged during software development to implement a computer program.
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Linux distribution
A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and often a package management system.
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Linux Journal
Linux Journal (LJ) is an American monthly technology magazine originally published by Specialized System Consultants, Inc. (SSC) in Seattle, Washington since 1994.
Linux.com
Linux.com is a website that is owned by the Linux Foundation, where the goal of the site is to provide information about the developments and changes in Linux and related products, as well as providing a hub for the Linux community.
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo
LinuxWorld Conference and Expo (renamed to OpenSource World in its final year) was a conference and trade show that focused on open source and Linux solutions in the information technology sector.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza (born November 23, 1972) is a Mexican programmer, best known for starting the GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin projects.
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Modular programming
Modular programming is a software design technique that emphasizes separating the functionality of a program into independent, interchangeable modules, such that each contains everything necessary to execute only one aspect of the desired functionality.
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Motif (software)
In computing, Motif refers to both a graphical user interface (GUI) specification and the widget toolkit for building applications that follow that specification under the X Window System on Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
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Nat Friedman
Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (born 6 August 1977) is an American technology executive and investor.
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), is a public research university in Mexico.
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Oracle Solaris
Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
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Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, Florida, United States.
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Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
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Peter Mattis
Peter Mattis is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and business executive.
Qt (software)
Qt (pronounced "cute" or as an initialism) is cross-platform application development framework for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms such as Linux, Windows, macOS, Android or embedded systems with little or no change in the underlying codebase while still being a native application with native capabilities and speed.
Qt Group
Qt Group Plc (pronounced "cute"; formerly known as Trolltech, Qt Company, Qt Development Frameworks and Qt Software) is a global software company headquartered in Espoo, Finland.
Red Hat
Red Hat, Inc. (formerly Red Hat Software, Inc.) is an American software company that provides open source software products to enterprises and is a subsidiary of IBM.
Red Hat Linux
Red Hat Linux was a widely used commercial open-source Linux distribution created by Red Hat until its discontinuation in 2004.
Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer.
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San Jose, California
San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.
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Sawfish (window manager)
Sawfish is a window manager for the X Window System.
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Screensaver
A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time.
Software architect
A software architect is a software engineer responsible for high-level design choices related to overall system structure and behavior.
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Software maintenance
Software maintenance is the modification of a software product after delivery.
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SPARC
SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
Spencer Kimball (computer programmer)
Spencer Kimball is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and business executive.
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Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.
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System time
In computer science and computer programming, system time represents a computer system's notion of the passage of time.
Taskbar
The taskbar is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, displaying and facilitating switching between running programs.
Unix-like
A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.
Usability
Usability can be described as the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience.
Virtual desktop
In computing, a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interfaces, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which the virtual space of a computer's desktop environment is expanded beyond the physical limits of the screen's display area through the use of software.
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Wallpaper (computing)
A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
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Wayback Machine
The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web founded by the Internet Archive, an American nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.
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Webmaster
Category:Computer occupations Category:Website management.
A widget toolkit, widget library, GUI toolkit, or UX library is a library or a collection of libraries containing a set of graphical control elements (called widgets) used to construct the graphical user interface (GUI) of programs.
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Window manager
A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface.
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X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
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Ximian
Ximian, Inc. (previously called Helix Code and originally named International Gnome Support) was an American company that developed, sold and supported application software for Linux and Unix based on the GNOME platform.
See also
GNOME
- Adwaita (design language)
- Avahi (software)
- Bluecurve
- Cantarell (typeface)
- Cinnamon (desktop environment)
- Clearlooks
- Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- Dconf
- Dropline GNOME
- Enlightened Sound Daemon
- GDesklets
- GNOME
- GNOME 1
- GNOME 2
- GNOME 3
- GNOME Accessibility
- GNOME Applications
- GNOME Display Manager
- GNOME Foundation
- GNOME Keyring
- GNOME Shell
- GNOME Storage
- GTK
- GUADEC
- GVfs
- Java Desktop System
- MATE (desktop environment)
- Mallard (documentation)
- Metacity
- Midgard (software)
- Mutter (software)
- Nuvola
- ORBit
- Open Collaboration Services
- OpenDesktop.org
- Outreachy
- Phosh
- QGtkStyle
- Rarian
- Seahorse (software)
- Tango Desktop Project
- Ubuntu Unity
GNU Project
- Free Software, Free Society
- GCIDE
- GNAT Modified General Public License
- GNE (encyclopedia)
- GNOME
- GNOME 1
- GNU
- GNU Affero General Public License
- GNU Free Documentation License
- GNU General Public License
- GNU Lesser General Public License
- GNU Manifesto
- GNU Project
- GNU Savannah
- GNU Solidario
- GNU coding standards
- GNUstep
- GPL font exception
- GPL linking exception
- Gnits standards
- Gpl-violations.org
- Obstack
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_1
, Motif (software), Nat Friedman, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Oracle Solaris, Orlando, Florida, Palo Alto, California, Peter Mattis, Qt (software), Qt Group, Red Hat, Red Hat Linux, Richard Stallman, San Jose, California, Sawfish (window manager), Screensaver, Software architect, Software maintenance, SPARC, Spencer Kimball (computer programmer), Sun Microsystems, System time, Taskbar, Unix-like, Usability, Virtual desktop, Wallpaper (computing), Wayback Machine, Webmaster, Widget toolkit, Window manager, X Window System, Ximian.