GNOME 2.2

Launched in February, 2003

First application of the six month time-based release process: So successful, we only needed five!

Implementation of Human Interface Guidelines recommendations, refined focus on usability and consistency

Greatly improved fonts infrastructure
Built on new best-of-breed Free Software standards: freetype, Xft, fontconfig
Answers major question of Free Software desktop viability

Today we have over 30 languages with near-complete translations