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GNOME
Claimed by The GNOME Foundation Analyzed 17 days 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 10 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
D-Bus
Analyzed about 3 hours 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 about 1 hour 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 1 day 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.
LXDE
No analysis available
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
Razor-qt
Analyzed about 13 hours ago
Razor-qt is merging with LXDE
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Merge_LXDE-Qt_and_Razor-Qt
Please see: https://www.openhub.net/p/lxde/
Razor-qt is an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It has been tailored for users who value simplicity, speed, and an
Licenses:
gpl, lgpl21_or...
Unagi Compositing Manager
U
No analysis available
Unagi is a modular compositing manager which aims to be efficient, lightweight and responsive. It is currently written in C programming language and based on XCB library client library. Any existing window manager can be used as long as it implements properly EWMH and ICCCM specifications (or at
Mostly written in language not available
Licenses:
gpl3_or_l...
libxdg-basedir
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Analyzed about 14 hours ago
The XDG Base Directory Specification defines where should user files be looked for by defining one or more base directories relative in with they should be located.
This library implements functions to list the directories according to the specification and provides a few higher-level functions.
Hawaii
Claimed by Maui Project Analyzed over 1 year ago
Hawaii is an easy to use, fast and lightweight desktop environment based on Wayland and Qt technologies.
It's been tailored for who wants simplicity, consistency, visual appeal and good design.
Hawaii was born to be the Maui desktop environment but can run on any other GNU/Linux distribution.
Licenses:
BSD-3-Clause, gpl, lgpl21_or...