The GNOME platform is a rich collection of libraries. This is a
list of all the platform libraries in GNOME, sorted by purpose.
User interface and display
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GTK — Widget toolkit for graphical interfaces
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GDK — Low-level abstraction for the windowing system
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Cairo — 2D, vector-based drawing for high-quality graphics
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Pango — International text rendering with full Unicode support
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Clutter — Animations and scene graph
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WebKit — HTML5 web page rendering
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ATK — Accessibility toolkit to implement support for screen readers and
other tools
Storage of the user's data
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Evolution Data Server — Desktop-wide address book for contacts and calendar
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GSettings — Configuration storage for application preferences
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Secret — Secure storage for passwords and other data
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GNOME Data Access — Unified access to relational databases
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Tracker — Storage and retrieval for document metadata
File access
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GIO Files — File and URI handling, asynchronous file operations, volume
handling
Networking
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GIO Networking — Networking and sockets API with streams
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Soup — Asynchronous HTTP library with cookies, SSL, and XML-RPC
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Avahi — Zeroconf service discovery on local networks
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GUPnP — Wireless, peer-to-peer, plug-and-play RPC
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NetworkManager — Manage network connections and monitor online/offline status
Application support
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Help — Topic-oriented online help system
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Spell-checking — Spell-checking for text widgets
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PackageKit — Software installation and management
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Notify — Interactive notifications in the desktop's message tray
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Poppler — PDF rendering
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Telepathy — Unified instant-messaging and communications service
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Folks — Aggregate contacts from multiple local and online sources
Multimedia
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Canberra — Simple audio API for notifications and events
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GStreamer — Playing, mixing, and manipulating sound and video
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PulseAudio — Low-level audio API
Inter-process communication
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D-Bus — Inter-process communication bus to provide APIs to other
processes
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Polkit — Access control for system-level services provided through D-Bus
Geographical
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Champlain — Map rendering
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Geoclue2 — Geolocation - finding the user's geographical location
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Geocode-glib — Geocoding and reverse geocoding - conversion of street addresses
to/from geographical coordinates
Foundational C utilities and object system
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GLib — Data structures and utilities for C programs
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GObject — C-based object and type system with signals and slots
