GNOME Core Applications

GNOME Core Applications is a collection of approximately 30 application software 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.

GNOME Core Applications
Developer(s)The GNOME Project
Initial releaseDecember 20, 1998 (1998-12-20)[1]
Written inVala, C, C++, Scheme, JavaScript, Python
Operating systemUnix-like
PlatformGTK
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websiteapps.gnome.org

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 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 Evolution feature a header bar instead of a standalone title bar. Evolving from the generic GtkHeaderBar widget introduced to GTK in version 3.10, the Adwaita-based header bar is provided by the libadwaita library. The header bar replaces the title Bar and the toolbar for client-side decoration.[2]

Graphical shell

The default graphical shell of GNOME 3 is GNOME Shell.

Configuration
  • Settings – 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

Communication
  • Contacts – managing addresses
  • Mail (Design in progress)
  • Calls
  • GNOME Contacts
  • GNOME Mail

Files

System

World
  • Clocks
  • Maps
  • Weather
  • GNOME Clocks (stopwatch mode)
  • GNOME Clocks
  • GNOME Maps
  • GNOME Weather
  • GNOME Web

Utilities

GNOME applications

GNOME applications are those software that have been built with the GNOME philosophy in mind and follow the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), they are hosted, developed, and managed in the GNOME official development infrastructure, on gitlab.gnome.org.

References
  1. "first release".
  2. "GNOME Developer Documentation: GtkHeaderBar".
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