GNOME Core Applications is a
software suite
A software suite (also known as an application suite) is a collection of computer programs (application software, or programming software) of related functionality, sharing a similar user interface and the ability to easily exchange data with eac ...
of approximately 30
application software
Application may refer to:
Mathematics and computing
* Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a ...
that are packaged as part of the standard
free and open-source GNOME desktop environment. GNOME Core Applications have the look and feel of the GNOME desktop, and often utilize the
Adwaita
Adwaita (meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) (c. 1750 – 22 March 2006), also spelled Addwaita, was a male Aldabra giant tortoise that lived in the Alipore Zoological Gardens of Kolkata, India. At the time of his death in 2006, Adwaita was b ...
design language. Some applications have been written from scratch and others are ports.
The employment of the newest
graphical widget
A graphical widget (also graphical control element or control) in a graphical user interface is an element of interaction, such as a button or a scroll bar. Controls are software components that a computer user interacts with through direct ...
s offered by the latest version of
GTK
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and propriet ...
in order to implement the GNOME
Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)
ergonomically is the only feature which all GNOME Core Applications have in common. Some of the GNOME Core Applications are essential, while several are not, e.g. GNOME Weather. Most are graphical
front-ends, e.g.
GNOME Software, to underlying Linux system
daemons, like e.g.
journald,
PackageKit,
NetworkManager
NetworkManager is a daemon that sits on top of libudev and other Linux kernel interfaces (and a couple of other daemons) and provides a high-level interface for the configuration of the network interfaces.
Rationale
NetworkManager is a software ...
or
PulseAudio
PulseAudio is a network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project. It runs mainly on Linux, various BSD distributions such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD, macOS, as well as Illumos distributions and the Solaris operat ...
.
Configuration
* Settings – main interface to configure various aspects of GNOME. Diverse panels represent graphical front-ends to configure the
NetworkManager daemon and other daemons.
Communication
* Contacts – managing addresses
* Calls
Files
* Document Scanner
*
Eye of GNOME
*
Evince – the document viewer
*
Files – the file browser
* Music – audio player with database
* Photos
*
Videos – the media player
System
* Connections - front-end for remote desktops. Introduced in GNOME 41.
*
Disks
*
Disk Usage Analyzer
Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical disk usage analyzer for GNOME. It was part of GNOME Core Applications, but was split off for GNOME 3.4. It was originally named Baobab after the ''Adansonia'' tree. The software gives the user a menu-driven, gr ...
* Extensions
* Fonts
* Logs – written in Vala, introduced with 3.12
* Help
*
Software
Software is a set of computer programs and associated software documentation, documentation and data (computing), data. This is in contrast to Computer hardware, hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work.
...
* System Monitor
* Console (King's Cross)
*
Web
World
* Clocks
* Maps
* Weather
Utilities
*
Calculator
* Calendar
*
Characters
Character or Characters may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Literature
* ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk
* ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to The ...
*
Cheese
*
Text Editor
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be ...
* Tour
GNOME Circle
GNOME Circle is a collection of applications which have been built to extend the GNOME platform, utilize GNOME technologies, and follow the GNOME
human interface guidelines. They are hosted, developed, and managed in the GNOME official development infrastructure, on
gitlab.gnome.org
. Circle applications are not part of GNOME Core Applications.
References
External links
* (homepage)
{{GNOME
Free software programmed in C
Free software programmed in Vala