GNOME Shell

GNOME Shell
Developer(s)The GNOME Project
Initial releaseApril 6, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-04-06)
Stable release
47.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 18 October 2024; 19 days ago (18 October 2024)
Repositorygitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell
Written inC and JavaScript[2][3]
Operating systemBSD, Linux, Unix
Available in75 languages[4]
List of languages
Afrikaans, Arabic, Aragonese, Assamese, Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kirghiz, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Serbian Latin, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Vietnamese
Type
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitewiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell

GNOME Shell is the graphical shell of the GNOME desktop environment starting with version 3,[5] which was released on April 6, 2011. It provides basic functions like launching applications and switching between windows, and is also a widget engine. GNOME Shell replaced GNOME Panel[6] and some ancillary components of GNOME 2.

GNOME Shell is written in C and JavaScript as a plugin for Mutter.

In contrast to the KDE Plasma Workspaces, a software framework intended to facilitate the creation of multiple graphical shells for different devices, the GNOME Shell is intended to be used on desktop computers with large screens operated via keyboard and mouse, as well as portable computers with smaller screens operated via their keyboard, touchpad or touchscreen.

  1. ^ "47.1". October 18, 2024. Retrieved October 19, 2024.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference gnome3myths was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "GNOME/gnome-shell". GitHub. Archived from the original on October 27, 2017. Retrieved March 4, 2017. C: 48.9%; JavaScript: 47.6%.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Languages was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference gnome-3-planning was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference shell-replaces-panel was invoked but never defined (see the help page).