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20 unusual facts about Gnome


14N

Gnome-Rhône 14N, a WWII French 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine

Ankur Group

The group is also working on providing Bangla support for some major XServer applications such as office suites, databases, development tools and desktop environments such as GNOME and KDE.

In January, 2003, Taneem Ahmed announced the GNOME Bangla Translation Project and began recruiting for the project.

Astra-Gnome

The vehicle was featured on the September 3, 1956 cover of Newsweek magazine and exhibited at the 1956 New York International Auto Show.

Font management software

However, current Linux desktop environments (such as KDE and Gnome) manage fonts for applications using their internal framework library calls for font display, thus allowing management of fonts centrally and comfortably via the GUI.

Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

He mentions one section as "very funny", but "all too-brief" coverage of another topic, or none at all (GNOME).

GGZ

GGZ Gaming Zone, a Free Software online gaming project which among others develops games for the KDE and GNOME desktops.

Gnome

This is evidenced by their allegiance to the Warlock Lord in The Sword of Shannara and to the Mord Wraiths in The Wishsong of Shannara.

In The Father Christmas Letters, which Tolkien wrote for his children, Red Gnomes are helpful creatures who come from Norway to the North Pole to assist Father Christmas and his Elves in fighting the wicked Goblins.

Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow (1877), which has "let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine" (cited after OED).

Gnome-screensaver

On some GNOME-based Linux distributions, it is used instead of the framework that is a part of XScreenSaver.

Harold D. Kantner

Kantner built a Bleriot monoplane with a 50 horsepower Gnome engine in which he soloed on June 30, 1911 and was given Fédération Aéronautique Internationale certificate number 65 on October 14, 1911 in Mineola, New York.

Heward Grafftey

Due to his relatively short stature and impish looks, Grafftey earned the nickname of "The Gnome from Brome," during his twenty years in politics.

Nodoka

Nodoka, a theme for the GNOME desktop environment provided as part of the Fedora Linux distribution

Run command

In the GNOME interface, the Run command is used to run applications via terminal commands.

In GNOME and KDE, the Run command acts as a location where applications and commands can be executed.

Sun Java Workstation

The Java Workstation name alluded to the workstations being intended to run Sun's Java Desktop System, a GNOME-based desktop environment.

T-comma

Although the X.Org Server supports the correct keyboard (ro comma) since at least 2005, selecting this keyboard from the user interface (e.g. GNOME Keyboard Properties) has only recently been made possible.

TetraVex

TetraVex is also available as an open source game on the GNOME desktop as part of the GNOME Games collection under GNU GPL.

Waste container

Formerly known as ‘Trash’ and ‘Wastebasket’ on international English Macs and GNOME desktop environments, it is now simply called “Deleted Items” in GNOME.


Breguet 470

It was re-engined with more powerful, 937 hp (699 kW) Gnome-Rhône 14N radials in 1937 before being entered into that year's IstresDamascus–Paris race, finishing fifth in a time of 21 hours 3 min, with de-militarised Savoia-Marchetti SM.79s bombers occupying the first three places and a de Havilland Comet racer finishing fourth.

Bristol Biplane Type 'T'

53 had a 70 hp Gnome engine and was flown by Gordon England, and was withdrawn with engine problems.

Bruce Nazarian

Nazarian and Gnome's Studio 2 from New York landed at Powertrax in June 1990, just in time to begin work with film composer Charles Gross on the score for "Air America".

Cr OS Linux

The release 2.1.1145 on June 14, 2012 brought a major improvement, switching from openSUSE 11.4 to openSUSE 12.1, from GNOME to Cinnamon, from Google Chrome to Chromium and from Picasa to Shotwell.

Garden gnome liberationists

The traveling gnome theme later became the basis for Travelocity's "Where is my Gnome?" advertising campaign.

Glenbrook, New South Wales

Since 2005, the suburb has been the home of The Australian Gnome Convention organised by the local Rotary Club and held on Australia Day each year.

GNOME Games

GNOME Blackjack - a computerized implementation of the gambling game.

Gnome King Kyrië

One day, Gnome King Kyrië was shot by a hunter in the heathlands of Riethoven.

Gnome Reserve

The Gnome Reserve is a garden and tourist attraction at West Putford, near Bradworthy, Devon, England, presented as a pastoral refuge for garden gnomes.

Jules Védrines

He was apprenticed to the Gnome engine manufacturing company, after which he spent six months in England as Robert Loraine's mechanic in 1910, and then returned to France, where he gained his pilot's license (no. 312) on 7 December 1910 at the Blériot school at Pau.

Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Gnomes

A gnome, Virum, tells his version of authorship of the songs involved about the heroes of the War of the Lance.

Komputeko

Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.

Le petit gnome

Le petit gnome was a German educational television series produced by SWR Fernsehen, teaching French as a foreign or second language to young German viewers aged 6 to 12 years.

Lowe Marlburian

The Marlburian was a two-seat braced monoplane powered by a Gnome rotary engine.

Maria Reidelbach

Her 2006–07 project, Gnome on the Grange, combines a garden, botanical information, a ten-hole miniature golf and Gnome Chomsky, the world's tallest garden gnome (13 feet and six inches high), as acknowledged by Guinness World Records.

Matthew Mercer

Pryzm Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn - Zartu the Dark Unicorn, Elven King, Gnome Ruler

Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum

The player assigns each character a race at creation time: Human, Elf, Half-orc, Gnome or Dwarf.

Napier Gazelle

These helicopter engines were used on the Westland Wessex HAS 1 and HAS 3 (Other versions of the Wessex had 2 Rolls Royce Gnome engines) and the Bristol Belvedere (later Westland Belvedere) transport helicopter.

Open Source for America

It consists of various open source foundations, and companies, including GNOME, Mozilla, and Canonical.

Print screen

In GNOME and KDE desktop environments, a screenshot file is automatically saved in the Pictures folder of the user.

Savignia naniplopi

The specific name is a Latin rendering of "Plop the gnome", a reference to the Belgian children's TV character Kabouter Plop.

Scrooge McDuck and Money

Animation historian Jerry Beck suggests that this short film was likely attached and released theatrically with either The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin or The Gnome Mobile.

Shirl's Neighbourhood

The half-hour show featured former Skyhooks frontman Graeme "Shirley" Strachan and co-host Liz Rule alongside a cast of characters including Norm The Kangaroo, Ol' Possum, Claude The Crow, Stanley The Snake, Greenfinger the Garden Gnome, Yippee the Bunyip, Bartholomew the Sheep and a band of monkeys.

Sopwith Pup

In 1915, Sopwith produced a personal aircraft for the company's test pilot Harry Hawker, a single-seat, tractor biplane powered by a 50 hp Gnome rotary engine.

The Enchantments

They used fairy names such as Gnome Tarn, Troll Sink, Naiad Lake (officially Temple Lake), Sprite and King Arthur legends in the Lower Enchantment Basin because "the lower basin was not as austere as the upper basin," according to Peg.

The Secret Book of Gnomes

They were written by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet, though they claimed that it was written by a Gnome called David.

UberStudent

In a 2011 April Fools' Day satire, he announced an "UberStudent Dumbed Down Edition" featuring the GNOME 3 Shell.

Windows key

Desktop environments such as KDE and GNOME usually support the key, though it may be necessary to configure its functionality after installation.