Gnome

Works well. Many distributions use this as the default desktop.  Subjectively I find KDE snappier and that is what I use, but many others prefer Gnome.

  • Development
    • Glade - User interface designed.
  • Utilities
    • Alacarte - A menu editor. (nyt)
    • Beagle - Desktop search. (nyt)
    • Celestia - 3D space simulator. (nyt)
    • Corbicula - Anti-virus front end for ClamAV. (nyt)
    • Epiphany - Gnome desktop browser.
    • Evince - Document viewer (pdf, postscript, dvi, etc.).
    • Eye of Gnome - Graphics viewer.
    • File Roller - Archive manager. (nyt)
    • gedit - lightweight text editor.
    • gdm - Gnome Display Manager - used for logins.
    • Keyring - remembers your passwords. (nyt)
    • Gnome Terminal - a command-line terminal.
    • Metacity - a window manager.
    • Revelation - password manager. (nyt)
    • Seahorse - Gnome encryption key manager. (nyt)
    • Tomboy - For taking notes. (nyt)
  • Multimedia
    • Avidemux - Video editing. (nyt)
    • GCstar - Manage collections (videos, music, books, etc.) (nyt)