GNOME Core Applications is a

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of approximately 30

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that are packaged as part of the standard

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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 graphical widgets 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.

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, to underlying Linux system daemons, like e.g. journald,

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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 Eye of GNOME is the official and default image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, where it is also known as Image Viewer. There is also another official image viewer for GNOME called gThumb that has more advanced features like image organ ...

Evince Evince (), also known as GNOME Document Viewer, is a free and open source document viewer supporting many document file formats including PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF, XPS and DVI. It is designed for the GNOME desktop environment. The deve ...

– the document viewer * Files – the file browser * Music – audio player with database * Photos *

Videos Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) system ...

– 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) *

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World

* Clocks * Maps * Weather

Utilities

Calculator An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics. The first solid-state electronic calculator was created in the early 1960s. Pocket-sized ...

* Calendar *

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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