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GNOME
Claimed by The GNOME Foundation Analyzed 12 months ago
The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.
Licenses:
gpl, gpl3_or_l..., lgpl21_or...
KDE
Claimed by KDE Analyzed 12 months ago
KDE is a community of people dedicated to create a free and user-friendly computing experience.
KDE develops three pillars of software:
Plasma, one of the most popular desktop environments for Linux and BSD operating systems – adaptable to formfactors ranging from desktop PCs to smartphones.
Licenses:
GNU_Gener..., gpl3, lgpl21
NetworkManager
Analyzed 11 months ago
A laptop user should never need to use the command line or configuration files to manage their network; it should "Just Work" as automatically as possible and intrude as little as possible into the user's workflow. NetworkManager attempts to make networking invisible. When moving into areas you've
D-Bus
Analyzed 11 months ago
D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to code a "single instance" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.
Licenses:
academic, gpl
awesome
Analyzed 11 months ago
awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X. It is very fast, light and extensible.
It is primarly targeted at power users, developers and any people dealing with every day computing tasks and want to have fine-grained control on its graphical environment.
KDElibs (KDE)
Claimed by KDE Analyzed 11 months ago
The KDE libraries, basis of KDE and used by many open source projects. They are based on Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform toolkit, and run on Linux, BSDs, and other Unices, as well as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Licensed under GNU LGPL, they may be used by open source and proprietary applications.
Qt 5
Analyzed 11 months ago
Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework. Using Qt, you can write applications once and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.
Licenses:
Commercial, GNU_Free_..., gpl3
LXDE
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LXDE is a free desktop environment for Unix and other POSIX compliant platforms, such as Linux or BSD. The name LXDE stands for "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment".
LXDE is a project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It's not designed to be powerful and
Mostly written in language not available
Licenses:
gpl, lgpl
Thunar
Claimed by Xfce Desktop Environment Analyzed 11 months ago
Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce desktop environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time and