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.

NetworkManager-l2tp is a VPN plugin for NetworkManager and later which provides support for L2TP and L2TP/IPsec (i.e. L2TP over IPsec) connections.

The Bonobo UI library provides a number of user interface controls using the Bonobo component framework.

The libgnome-desktop library provides API shared by several applications on the desktop, but that cannot live in the platform for various reasons. There is no API or ABI guarantee, although we are doing our best to provide stability. Documentation for the API is available with gtk-doc.

The gnome-about program helps find which version of GNOME is installed.

Libpeas is a gobject-based plugin engine, targeted at giving every application the chance to assume its own extensibility. It also has a set of features including, but not limited to: multiple extension points; on-demand (lazy) programming language support for C, Python and JS; simplicity of the API.

GNU Data Access (GDA) is an attempt to provide uniform access to different kinds of data sources (databases, information servers, mail spools, etc). It is a complete architecture that provides all you need to access your data.

Libgnomekbd is a keyboard configuration library for the GNOME desktop environment, which can notably display keyboard layouts.

GNOME To Do is a simplistic personal task manager designed to perfectly fit the GNOME desktop.

Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users’s activities and events, anywhere from files opened to websites visited and conversations. It makes this information readily available for other applications to use. It is able to establish relationships between items based on similarity and usage patterns.

GNOME Screenshot is a utility used for taking screenshots of the entire screen, a window or a user defined area of the screen, with optional beautifying border effects.

This extension of NetworkManager allows it to take care of connections to VPNs via OpenConnect, an open client for Cisco's AnyConnect SSL VPN.

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

GVFS is a userspace virtual file system designed to work with the I/O abstraction of GIO. It contains a GIO module that seamlessly adds GVFS support to all applications using the GIO API. It also supports exposing the GVFS mounts to non-GIO applications using FUSE.

GVFS comes with a set of backends, including trash support, SFTP, SMB, HTTP, DAV, and others.

Yelp-tools is a collection of scripts and build utilities to help create, manage, and publish documentation for Yelp and the web. Most of the heavy lifting is done by packages like yelp-xsl and itstool. This package just wraps things up in a developer-friendly way.

ORBit2 is a CORBA 2.4-compliant Object Request Broker (orb) featuring mature C, C++ and Python bindings.

Feedbackd provides a DBus daemon to act on events to provide haptic, visual and audio feedback. It offers the libfeedbackd library and GObject introspection bindings.

This package provides a graphical file manager.

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.

Bluefish is an editor aimed at programmers and web developers, with many options to write web sites, scripts and other code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages.

While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.

GNOME Online Accounts provides interfaces so that applications and libraries in GNOME can access the user's online accounts. It has providers for Google, ownCloud, Facebook, Flickr, Windows Live, Pocket, Foursquare, Microsoft Exchange, Last.fm, IMAP/SMTP, Jabber, SIP and Kerberos.

Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys and passwords in the GNOME keyring.

libshumate is a C library providing a GtkWidget to display maps. It supports numerous free map sources such as OpenStreetMap, OpenCycleMap, OpenAerialMap and Maps.

Shotwell is a digital photo manager designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from disk or camera, organize them by keywords and events, view them in full-window or fullscreen mode, and share them with others via social networking and more.