Evolution of operating system menus from early Gnome to Gnome Shell.
The early Gnome desktop is quite interesting, it had a Windows styled menu with a easy to use taskbar. https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/gnome/1.2/gnome-1.2-menu02.png. Source: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/gnome/. This is the old Gnome 1.0 configuration application. Very dated indeed, this is when they had Enlightenment as the Window Manager of Gnome. Although you could use Sawfish as well. http://www.linuxjournal.com/files/linuxjournal.com/linuxjournal/articles/031/3139/3139f1.jpg. The Gnome … Read more