GNOME products
While a GNOME desktop appears as a single unity to most users, it really
consists of a number of applications, utilities, and libraries. We can list
just the most important ones here.
Applications
GNOME comes with several applications for your everyday needs. You can
find additional third-party software from other
software directories.
- Evolution is a world-class EMail application that recieves
many awards already.
- Totem plays your movies and songs.
- Sound-Juicer plays your CDs, and copies them to your
harddisk.
- Ekiga enables you to talk to your friends in realtime over
the Internet.
- Epiphany makes you surf the Internet.
- Evince let's you view standard documents such as PDFs.
Desktop
Learn once, use often: GNOME delivers cross-platform
tools that work across several Linux distributions.
- Nautilus comes in two flavours to manage your files easily.
- Metacity is a window manager and the center of GNOME's philosophy to keep it simple
for user. If you have no idea what a window manager is, be assured, it's unlikely that you
will ever need to find out.
- The GNOME Panel is configurable to your needs. Containing small programms
to notify you about system events, menus to let you start your applications,
and much more, the panel is one of a core software of GNOME.
Libraries
You're interested to build your own applications? GNOME comes
with lots of libraries to make it easier for you. With bindings
to all major programming languages, and lots of third-party
application build with them, you can rely on the continuous
improvement of all of GNOME's base libraries.
Other projects
A full list of projects hosted on the GNOME
servers is available. Note that some entries are kept for historical reasons.