This document gives you a short introduction to GNOME. It is not intended to cover all details of GNOME; if you need more information, you should read detailed manuals listed in Section 10 ― Where to Find More Information. Also, this document assumes you already have GNOME installed; if you need help installing GNOME, please check the instructions on GNOME website.
This document was written by the members of GNOME Documentation Project (GDP). If you have any comments or suggestions about this document or if you can offer any other help in improving or translating GNOME documentation, please send an e-mail to <docs@gnome.org>, or visit GDP website.
The authors of this document assume that you are using the default configuration of GNOME (that is, default GTK theme and Sawfish window manager with Crux theme). GNOME is highly configurable, so it is easy to change not only the look but also the behavior of GNOME; however, we recommend that you do so only after you already have some experience with GNOME.