The GNOME project was born as an effort to create an entirely free desktop environment for free systems. From the start, the main objective of GNOME has been to provide a user friendly suite of applications and an easy-to-use desktop. GNOME is a large collection of software, created over the last two years. (more...)
Gcalctool is the desktop calculator that has been accepted for GNOME 2.4. It has Basic, Financial and Scientific modes. Internally it uses multiple precision arithmetic to produce results to a high degree of accuracy.
GDesklets provides an advanced architecture for desktop applets - tiny displays sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. Populate your desktop with status meters, icon bars, weather sensors, news tickers... whatever you can imagine! Virtually anything is possible and maybe even available some day. (more...)
Gnome-panel contains the GNOME panel which the area on your desktop from which you can run applications and applets, and perform other tasks.
Help browser for GNOME 2.4 which supports DocBook documents, info and man.
GNOME Games is a collection of sixteen small "five-minute" games in a variety of styles and genres for the GNOME desktop. GNOME Games collection includes: Aisleriot: A compilation of over eighty different solitaire card games. Everything from favorites like Freecell and Klondike through to the hopelessly pointless Clock Patience. (more...)
Tomboy is a simple note-taking application designed to be unobtrusive and friendly, while supporting inter-note links similar to a WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas. It can run either as a Gnome panel applet or a notification tray-icon. Tomboy supports many advanced editing features, but they won't bother you until you need them.
Vte is GNOME 2's virtual-terminal emulation widget. The VTE widget is a new terminal widget meant to replace zvt. It is used by gnome-terminal as of GNOME 2.2.x.
The GNOME System Tools are a set of cross-platform configuration utilities for Linux and other Unix systems. Internally they are divided in frontends and backends. The frontend knows nothing about the underlying system and provides the same user interface across the different types of systems. The backend knows how to read and write the configuration information. (more...)
Gnome-desktop contains the libgnome-desktop library which contains APIs that really belong in libgnome[ui] but have not seen enough testing or development to be considered stable. It also contains documents installed as part of the core GNOME distribution, e.g. the GPL, GNOME's .desktop files, the gnome-about program, some manpages and GNOME's core graphics files and icons.
Dropline GNOME is a version of the GNOME Desktop that has been tweaked for Slackware Linux systems. It is available in Slackware's standard .tgz package format, in addition to the usual source code. The current release is based off of the latest GNOME 2 distribution from the GNOME Project.
Gbrainy is a brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained. gbrainy provides the following types of games: Logic puzzles. Games designed to challenge your reasoning and thinking skills. Mental calculation. Games based on arithmetical operations designed to prove your mental calculation skills. Memory trainers. Games designed to challenge your short term memory.
Contains GNOME time tracker, searching tool, calculator, and other useful GNOME utilities/apps.
The mousetweaks package provides the functions offered by the Accessibility tab of the Mouse control panel. It also contains two panel applets related to the mouse accessibility. More particularly: mousetweaks offers a way to perform the various clicks without using any hardware button. In this context, the Dwell Click panel applet can be used to choose what click type to perform. (more...)
GLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you'll find at most office supply stores.
Sabayon is a tool which system administrators can use to pre-configure GNOME desktops for many users. With Sabayon, sysadmins can set configuration values, put files in the users' desktops, and lock down certain settings (for example, to say that users should not be able to change their HTTP proxy). (more...)
GNOME Media is a set of GNOME multimedia tools. - gnome-volume-control: GStreamer-based volume control - gnome-sound-recorder: a simple audio recorder - gnome-audio-profiles: GStreamer-based audio encoding profiles - gstreamer-properties: GStreamer a/v input/output configuration .
Gnome-session contains the GNOME session manager, the GNOME session manager configuration program and several other session management related utilities and the GNOME session manager proxy, which handles basic session management for applications that do not support XSMP.
Contains the GNOME panel and applets, the help browser, desktop properties and other essential GNOME utilities.
Metatheme provides a way for users to save and restore snapshots of their system's current theme configuration. This allows one-click simultaneous changing of background image, Gtk+ theme, Sawfish window manager theme, and so forth.
A Gnome 2.x random background/wallpaper script written in PERL. Uses the gnome gconftool to modily a users configuration.
Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer designed to allow easy interaction with all the applications, contacts, documents and other resources you use every day. Gimmie can be run as a stand-alone application or as a GNOME Panel-applet.
Straw is a desktop news aggregator for the GNOME environment. Its aim is to be a faster, easier and more accessible way to read news and blogs than the traditional browser.
