From a set of icons designed to improve the look of Ubuntu's then GNOME 2 desktop, the elementary project expanded to include some custom apps, including a fork of the default GNOME files app, Nautilus, called nautilus-elementary.
(Yes, seriously.) If ever there was a group of developers who started at the bottom and worked their way up to the top, it's Daniel Foré and the rest of today's elementary OS team. Further Reading Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, GNOME is back-and Ubuntu has never been betterĮlementary OS began life over a decade ago as a set of icons.