GNOME Core Applications

GNOME Core Applications
Developer(s) The GNOME Project
Initial release December 20, 1998 (1998-12-20)[1]
Stable release 3.30.1 (25 September 2018 (2018-09-25)[2]) [±]
Preview release 3.30rc2 (1 September 2018 (2018-09-01)[3]) [±]
Written in Vala, C, C++, Scheme, JavaScript, Python
Operating system Linux, Unix-like, macOS, Microsoft Windows
Platform GTK+
License GNU General Public License
Website wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/

GNOME Core Applications is a collection of approximately 30 applications 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.

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.

All GNOME Core Applications except GNOME Terminal, Evolution and Seahorse feature the GtkHeaderBar. GtkHeaderBar[4] is a widget introduced to GTK+ in version 3.10. It is intended to replace the Title-Bar and the Toolbar.

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 (Design in progress)
  • Contacts – managing addresses
  • Mail (Design in progress)
  • Polari – IRC client Polari

Files

  • Files – the file browser
  • Documents
  • Photos
  • Music – audio player with database
  • Videos – the media player
  • Transfers (Design in progress)

System

World

Utilities

References

  1. ↑ "first release".
  2. ↑ Catanzaro, Michael (25 September 2018). "GNOME 3.30.1 released!". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 29 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Jardón, Javier (1 September 2018). "GNOME 2.30rc2 (2.29.92) RELEASED". GNOME Mail Services (Mailing list). Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "GNOME Developer Documentation: GtkHeaderBar".
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