GNOME Core Applications is a

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of approximately 30

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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

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design language. Some applications have been written from scratch and others are ports. The employment of the newest

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s offered by the latest version of

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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 ...

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 *

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* System Monitor * Console (King's Cross) * Web

World

* Clocks * Maps * Weather

Utilities

* Calculator * Calendar *

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* Cheese *

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* 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