GNOME Core Applications

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.

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.

GNOME Core Applications: User interface (GNOME Shell)
GNOME Shell overview mode  GNOME Shell applications launcher  GNOME Shell in classic mode
Screenshots of GNOME Core User Interface (Shell) Application

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

GNOME Core Applications: Configuration
GNOME Control Center  dconf editor  GNOME Tweak Tool
Screenshots of GNOME Core Configuration Applications

Conversations

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

GNOME Core Applications: Conversations
GNOME Chat  GNOME Contacts  GNOME Mail  GNOME Polari
Screenshots of GNOME Core Conversations Applications

Files

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

GNOME Core Applications: Files
GNOME Files  GNOME Photos  GNOME Music  GNOME Videos  GNOME Transfers
Screenshots of GNOME Core Files Applications

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

GNOME Core Applications: System
GNOME Boxes  GNOME Credentials  GNOME Disks  GNOME Usage  GNOME Oops!  GNOME Logs  GNOME system log  GNOME Help  GNOME Software
Screenshots of GNOME Core System Applications

World

• Clock
• Maps
• Weather
• GNOME Web

GNOME Core Applications: World
GNOME Clocks  GNOME Maps  GNOME Weather  GNOME Web
Screenshots of GNOME Core World Applications

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

GNOME Core Applications: Utilities
GNOME Calculator  GNOME Calendar  GNOME Character Map  GNOME Dictionary  GNOME Notes  gitg  Meld legacy  gedit  Devhelp
Screenshots of GNOME Core Utilities Applications

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to GNOME Core Applications.

• Official website
• GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
• all GNOME Applications
• List of GTK+ applications – not only GNOME is based on GTK+

References

GNOME
Core Applications	Boxes Calculator Character Map Dictionary Disks Files Software Terminal Videos Web
Additional Applications	Development Anjuta Builder Glade Interface Designer Meld GNOME Devhelp Nemiver Geany Gtranslator Office AbiWord Dia Gnumeric Evince Evolution LaTeXila OCRFeeder Graphics Eye of GNOME F-Spot GIMP gThumb Inkscape Shotwell Simple Scan Internet Balsa Empathy Ekiga Gobby Ring Vino Vinagre Transmission-gtk Media Banshee Cheese Pitivi Rhythmbox Sound Juicer SoundConverter EasyTag Games GNOME Games Chess Mines gbrainy PyChess Utilities Archive Manager Brasero dconf-editor gedit gnote GParted Tomboy
Platform components	User interface GNOME 3 GDM Mutter GNOME Shell Tango Desktop Project Orca GNOME 2 Metacity GNOME Panel Clearlooks Other Cinnamon MATE Diodon GNOME Do Avant Window Navigator GNOME Base GTK+ GDK ATK Clutter Pango GLib GObject GIO IBus Other dconf Genie Keyring GNOME-DB GVfs GnomeVFS Librsvg Tracker Vala libxslt libxml2 freedesktop.org AppStream D-Bus GStreamer NetworkManager Poppler Wayland X.Org Server PulseAudio PackageKit HarfBuzz Cairo
Community	GNOME Foundation GUADEC The GNOME Project Outreach Program for Women
People	Miguel de Icaza Luis Villa Havoc Pennington Karen Sandler
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