GNOME Project Launches Revamped Website
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Without much fuss, the GNOME project has rolled out a brand-new website, and it’s looking great. The updated vision highlights minimalism, simplicity and accessibility—ideas that the project fully embraces.
The refreshed vision also highlights GNOME’s ecosystem, including the GNOME Circle—a certification and mentoring program for well-designed apps built for the GNOME platform—and Flathub, the Linux app store where users can access a plethora of third-party applications compatible with GNOME.
Everything looks sleek, minimalistic, and well-organized—totally free of clutter, which is great! But two things immediately stood out to me.
OMG Ubuntu:
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GNOME's Website Just Got a Major Redesign - OMG! Ubuntu
The official GNOME website has an important role, serving as both showcase and springboard for those looking to learn more about the desktop environment, the app ecosystem, developer documentation, or how to get involved and support the project.
Arranging, presenting, and meeting all of those needs on a single landing page—and doing it in an engaging, encouraging way?
Difficult to pull off—but GNOME has.
The new design looks flashy and modern. It’s more spacious and vibrant, has a simplified header, makes use of typography to greater effect, features a simple yet effective animation, and more.
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Cassidy James Blaede: GNOME Should Kick the Foot to the Curb… Mostly
This past week volunteers working with the GNOME design and engagement teams debuted a brand new GNOME.org website—one that was met largely with one of two reactions:
It’s beautiful and modern, nice work! and
What have you done with the foot? You have ruined GNOME!
You see, the site doesn’t feature the GNOME logo at the top of the page—it just has the word GNOME, with the actual logo relegated to the footer. It’s pretty safe to say (from my own observations, at least) that the second reaction was mostly the sentiment of a handful of long-time contributors who had grown very cozy with the current GNOME logo:
What’s the problem?
It’s a four-toed foot that is sort of supposed to look like a letter G. According to legend (read: my conversations with designers and contributors who have been working with GNOME for more years than I have fingers and toes), the logo is basically a story of happenstance: an early wallpaper featured footprints in the sand, that was modified into an icon for the menu, that was turned into a sort of logo while being modified to look like the letter G, and then that version was cleaned up a bit and successfully trademarked by the GNOME Foundation.