Wondering what the new year will bring for GNOME? Here's some answers...
"Scott: It strikes me that people tend to think of GNOME as just the shell, but it is really a set of other stand-alone, independent applications, as well. Talk a little bit about that relationship between GNOME the shell and all those other projects, as well as what it means for something to be under that GNOME umbrella.
"Stormy: GNOME started out as the desktop. That was its primary focus, but the GNOME developers started to find needs like being able to read their mail on Linux, so they wrote Evolution, which is a mail reader. Then they decided they needed an open source browser, so they wrote a browser, Epiphany.
"So you see, GNOME’s growth beyond being just a desktop is because the community of GNOME developers continues to define new requirements and opportunities. It’s even a set of applications that run on cell phones and handheld devices called GNOME Mobile. [Read more at How Software is Built]
