De/Wm's: GNOME

GNOME stands for "GNU Network Object Model Environment" and is a desktop environment for various Unix-like operating systems, most notably GNU/Linux, and as part of the Java Desktop System in Solaris.

Gnome is very popular, rivalled by KDE, and is used as the Default Desktop Enviroment on many LInux Distro's.
Gnome is written in C mainly as this is the language GTK+ is written in.

The Gnome desktop enviroment usually comes with the following software:


X window manager--->Metacity
X display manager---->GDM
File manager------------>Nautilus
Widget toolkit --------->GTK+
Terminal emulator ->GNOME Terminal
Text editor-------------->gedit
Video player----------->Totem
Audio player----------->Rhythmbox
CD burners------------->Brasero
Image viewer---------->Eye of GNOME
Office suite-------------->GNOME Office
Web browser----------->Epiphany
E-mail client------------->Evolution
Instant messenger---->Empathy
Archive manager------>File Roller
PDF viewer--------------->Evince
IDE---------------------------->Anjuta
Widget engine----------->gDesklets
Licenses used------------> GPL, LGPL


Developers of OS's often modify the software bundled with the desktop enviroment in the repositories and often the desktop enviroment itself to include branding, for instance Ubuntu.

Here is a screenshot of gnome 2.3 running.
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