The official pronunciation of the name is IPA: /gəˈnoʊm/, with a hard “G”, although /ˈnoʊm/ (as in the English word "gnome", with a silent "G") is also in common usage. The name originally stood for GNU Network Object Model Environment, though this acronym is deprecated.
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gnome的标志大脚板,不正说明gnome应读作[nәum]
gnome
noun
1 (in stories) a creature like a small man with white hair and a pointed hat who lives under the ground and guards gold and precious things: (informal) the gnomes of Zurich (= Swiss bankers who control foreign money)
2 a plastic or stone figure of a gnome, used as a garden ornament
你这人也真是,你说是yy的正确呢还是官方的正确?都告诉你g是gnu,读成ge nu。
gnome
noun
1 (in stories) a creature like a small man with white hair and a pointed hat who lives under the ground and guards gold and precious things: (informal) the gnomes of Zurich (= Swiss bankers who control foreign money)
2 a plastic or stone figure of a gnome, used as a garden ornament
还有,你这个解释中有说到大脚板么?地底生物就是大脚板?
自己好好看看这个脚是怎么来的: The GNOME Logo
Tuomas Kuosmanen (Tigert) was one of our friends that used to go by #gimp. Tuomas being a GIMP user himself he did various logos, the GIMP mascot (Wilber) and he also had done some small icons that were very nice looking. We started to use Tuomas' icons in GNOME, and he would draw icons for us for the various GNOME applications, and also for the various "Stock" icons (an idea I had that Eckehard implemented to add some consistency to the look of applications).
When we were looking for an icon for the GNOME panel, we went to Tuomas site, and we picked one of the icons he had drawn that had no association to anything yet, a gradient-filled foot in a square. This was the foot that was used for the menu for a long time.
The foot turned out to be problematic, as someone spotted a similar looking logo, and both DrMike and Rasterman were worried about possible problems caused because our GNOME foot looked to similar to the other logo.
The Red Hat labs decided to sponsor a logo competition for GNOME a few months later, and the prize was a digitizing tablet. There is one drawback to the logo contest: it was run by the GIMP people, and hence one of the requirements was to make the logo using the GIMP. This means that we did not get any vector-based logos for the project. There were many good submissions, many of them very good.
We chose to use a new version of the foot done by Tuomas himself. The big difference is that the new foot looked like a "G" instead (the other one was a right foot, this would be a left foot, G-shaped). The logo was quite nice, and we are still using it today.
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