adw is a port of the GTK 4 design for the GTK 3 version. It enables color customization by using the same color names as the ones for libadwaita.

Automatically toggle your GNOME desktop's color scheme between light and dark, switch backgrounds and run custom commands at sunset and sunrise.

Libidl is a library for creating trees of CORBA Interface Definition Language (idl) files, which is a specification for defining portable interfaces. libidl was initially written for orbit (the orb from the GNOME project, and the primary means of libidl distribution). However, the functionality was designed to be as reusable and portable as possible.

Orca is a screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via speech and refreshable braille. Orca works with applications and toolkits that support the Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI).

Icons for the GNOME desktop.

GNOME Boxes is a simple application to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems. Note that this application requires the libvirt and virtlog daemons to run. Use the command info '(guix) Virtualization Services' to learn how to configure these services on the Guix System.

To make it possible to redirect USB devices as a non-privileged user, some extra configuration is necessary: if you use the gnome-desktop-service-type, you should add the gnome-boxes package to the extra-packages field of the gnome-desktop-configuration, for example:

(service gnome-desktop-service-type
         (gnome-desktop-configuration
          (extra-packages (list gnome-boxes gnome-essential-extras))))

If you do not use the gnome-desktop-service-type, you will need manually extend the polkit-service-type with the spice-gtk package, as well as configure the libexec/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper executable of spice-gtk as setuid, to make it possible to redirect USB devices as a non-privileged user.

geocode-glib is a convenience library for geocoding (finding longitude, and latitude from an address) and reverse geocoding (finding an address from coordinates) using the Nominatim service. geocode-glib caches requests for faster results and to avoid unnecessary server load.

Drawing is a basic image editor aiming at the GNOME desktop.

This package provides plugins for the Eye of GNOME (EOG) image viewer, notably:

• EXIF Display, which displays camera (EXIF) information;

• Map, which displays a map of where the picture was taken on the side panel;

• Slideshow Shuffle, to shuffle images in slideshow mode.

Metacity is a window manager with a focus on simplicity and usability rather than novelties or gimmicks. Its author has characterized it as a "boring window manager for the adult in you."

GNOME is a graphical desktop environment. It includes a wide variety of applications with a common interface for browsing the web, editing text and images, creating documents and diagrams, playing media, scanning, and much more.

libgweather is a library to access weather information from online services for numerous locations.

Colord is a system service that makes it easy to manage, install and generate color profiles to accurately color manage input and output devices.

Libsecret is a GObject based library for storing and retrieving passwords and other secrets. It communicates with the "Secret Service" using DBus.

This library was designed to make it easier to access web services that claim to be "RESTful". It includes convenience wrappers for libsoup and libxml to ease remote use of the RESTful API.

This package provides a set-up wizard when a user logs into GNOME for the first time. It typically provides a tour of all gnome components and allows the user to set them up.

The libgnome library provides a number of useful routines for building modern applications, including session management, activation of files and URIs, and displaying help.

Sudoku is a Japanese logic game that exploded in popularity in 2005. GNOME Sudoku is meant to have an interface as simple and unobstrusive as possible while still providing features that make playing difficult Sudoku more fun.

Connections allows the user to connect to different real or virtual machines, using VNC or RDP.

Gnote is a note-taking application written for the GNOME desktop environment.

GNOME Dictionary can look for the definition or translation of a word in existing databases over the internet.

xdg-desktop-portal-gnome implements a back-end for xdg-desktop-portal that uses gtk and some more GNOME APIs.

Glade is a rapid application development (RAD) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment.

The libdazzle library is a companion library to GObject and Gtk+. It provides various features that the authors wish were in the underlying library but cannot for various reasons. In most cases, they are wildly out of scope for those libraries. In other cases, they are not quite generic enough to work for everyone.