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GNOME Core Applications

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Developer(s)
  
The GNOME Project

GNOME Core Applications

Initial release
  
December 20, 1998; 18 years ago (1998-12-20)

Stable release
  
3.22.3 (9 November 2016; 3 months ago (2016-11-09)) [±]

Preview release
  
3.23.91 (1 March 2017; 8 days ago (2017-03-01)) [±]

Written in
  
Vala, C, C++, Scheme, JavaScript, Python

Operating system
  
Linux, Unix-like, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows

GNOME Core Applications is a collection of approximately 30 computer programs 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; some applications have been written from scratch and others are ports.

Contents

The employment of the newest GUI widgets offered by the latest version of GTK+ 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 thin graphical front-ends, e.g. GNOME Software, to underlying Linux system daemons, like e.g. journald, PackageKit, NetworkManager or PulseAudio.

Graphical shell

The default graphical shell of GNOME 3 is GNOME Shell. GNOME Shell obsoleted GNOME Panel. An alternative graphical shell is, e.g. Cinnamon.

Configuration

  • Control Center – main interface to configure various aspects of GNOME. Diverse panels represent graphical front-ends to configure the NetworkManager daemon and other daemons.
  • dconf editor – an editor for dconf
  • Tweak Tool – gives access to a certain popular subset of the desktop settings

    • Conversations

  • Chat –
  • Contacts – managing addresses
  • Mail – the MUA
  • Polari – IRC client Polari

    • Files

  • Files – the file browser
  • Documents
  • Photos –
  • Music – audio player with database
  • Videos – the media player
  • Transfers

    • System

  • Boxes – front-end for a virtual machine (VM). Introduced in GNOME 3.4
  • Credentials
  • Disks
  • Usage – a melange of Disk Usage Analyzer (aka Baobab) and some other software, SystemMonitor / Usage
  • Oops!
  • Logs – Wiki-page, written in Vala, introduced with 3.12
  • Help
  • Software
  • or Packages

    • World

  • Clock
  • Maps
  • Weather
  • Web

    • Utilities

  • Calculator
  • Calendar
  • Character Map
  • Dictionary
  • Notes – also known as Bijiben (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Bijiben), neither Gnote nor Tomboy
  • gitg – a front-end for git
  • Meld – a visual diff tool
  • gedit – a text editor with syntax highlighting
  • Devhelp – browser for API documentation

    • References

    GNOME Core Applications Wikipedia
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