First real blog post! Fuck yeah!
Okay, now, a couple of months ago, the elementary team, primarily famous for their GTK theme and the icon set "elementary", released the very first version of their OS project: elementary OS 0.1 Jupiter. I intended this first post to write a review about it, with a brief introduction to the elementary project, but got a little carried away.
I beg of you to correct mistakes I've made here. I provide no real citations or sources, and all this is purely based off my (rather dodgy) memory from Ubuntu blogs.
A junior Canonical employer (now part of the elementary project) by the name of Daniel Foré aka DanRabbit designed a GTK theme for his elementary iconset (on which Ubuntu's iconset, Humanity, is based on and also designed by Mr. Foré), aptly named egtk. The theme provided a clean, simple and elegant look which is very much based on Mac OS X's desktop.
As the elementary iconset (which, in my opinion and perhaps lots of others, provided a more pleasing set rather than Ubuntu's own Humanity) got evermore popular, so did the GTK Theme. A short time later, Nautilus got "elementarized" by a hack based on DanRabbit's mockups of a file browser he once named Dash, by am-monkeyd (I am seriously sorry, but I forgot am-monkeyd's real name!) was named Nautilus Elementary.
It was arguably the most popular Nautilus hack in the Linux world, but unfortunately, the [main] developers of Nautilus dismissed it, and deemed it more of a "hack" rather than an improvement to Nautilus, so it never merged.
With the advent of elementary (the iconset), egtk and nautilus-elementary, the elementary team was slowly being conceived. I don't really know when exactly the elementary team was officially recognized by each other, but surely, "elementary apps" were popping up in the GNOME world, as frequently covered by OMG! Ubuntu! These apps were known for their cleanliness, visually appealing yet simple and minimalistic approach. They got the job done, they got it done fast, and that was it.
I can't recall what the order they appeared was, but, after Nautilus Elementary, their apps such as Postler, Purple (called Lingo, at that time), Wingpanel, Dexter, and more recently Marlin, Plank, BeatBox and their very own shell, Pantheon.
As these apps (before Marlin, Plank and Pantheon) became more popular, I guess they debated if an "elementary" OS should be released to. By then, the team was already "big", according to them. And sure enough, not long after a Wingpanel update, a new distribution called elementary OS was announced.
It took a few weeks until what it was going to be called, but they settled with "Jupiter", with the reasons: "[sorry, there was supposed to be extremely awesome reasons cited from their official web page, but the site has since been taken down and moved to a new one in which the post containing the aforementioned extremely awesome reasons was not to be located :(]"
Right now, you can see their progress at elementaryos.org.
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