Table of Contents
Software Included
Note that this list is by no means an exhausitve list. Rather, it highlights some of the applications shipped with GSB.
The GNOME Desktop
GNOME 2.26.3 is the latest
version of the GNOME Desktop. There have been a lot of
improvements in GNOME 2.26.3, which
include better desktop searching, a more organized Evolution email
and calendar client, enhanced image browsing, simplified control
panel, efficient power management, and powerful desktop tools, as
well as a great new documentation web site. For a complete summary
of what is new to the GNOME 2.26.3 Desktop, please refer to the release notes. GNOME
SlackBuild is designed to bring the greatest features of GNOME to
Slackware, integrating seamlessly into a standard install. It uses
the standard Slackware package system, and aims to replace as few
packages as possible. For a list of packages that require
updating, please see the
replaced packages file.
Metacity and Compiz ↑
GNOME SlackBuild provides two different window managers for your GNOME Desktop, Metacity, which is the default GNOME Window Manager, as well as Compiz-Fusion, a Window Manager which offers a wide range of spectacular effects for a 3D accelerated desktop.
GNOMESlackBuild offers a full compiz set configured for and integrated into
your GNOME desktop. Compiz-fusion is a compositing window manager that uses
3D graphics acceleration via OpenGL. It seeks to provide an easy
and fun-to-use windowing environment, allowing use of the graphics
hardware to provide impressive effects, amazing speed and
unrivalled usefulness. For more information, see
Compiz-Fusion's home
page.
GNOME officially incorporates the Metacity window
manager, a fully integrated window manager that uses GTK+ for
visual elements, communicates tightly with the panel and other
desktop elements, and is configured straight from the GNOME
preferences dialogs. It includes full keyboard navigation,
including navigation to the panel and the desktop background, and
it very themeable. For more information, see Metacity's
home
page.
Accessibility ↑
GNOME SlackBuild provides a full accessibility set, making it easy for users
with disabilities to use GNOME. GSB offers Orca, a free, open source scriptable
screen reader. Using various combinations of speech, braille, and magnification,
Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that run under the GNOME desktop.
Also available is an eSpeak voice synthesiser, GNOME Mousetweaks, and Dasher, an
accessible text entry application that uses pointing gestures rather than typing.
Mulitmedia ↑
GNOME SlackBuild uses PulseAudio as a sound server, and provides a wide assortment of multimedia programs based on the GStreamer framework, so users are able to play back a wide variety of media types (sound and video files, streaming network audio/video, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and more.) There are many applications, and GSB offers a range of choice for users to choose.
Totem
Totem is the official movie player of the GNOME desktop
environment based GStreamer. It features a playlist, a full-screen
mode, seek and volume controls, DVD/CD support, visualizations,
SHOUTcast and Internet radio, as well as keyboard navigation, and
comes with a video thumbnailer for the Nautilus file manager, and
plugins for Mozilla Firefox. For more information, see Totem's
home page.
Rhythmbox
Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application,
similar to Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to
work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful
GStreamer media framework. It includes such features as a music
browser, searching and sorting, internet radio, audio
visualizations, iPod, MTP and USB Music Player support, album art,
CD ripping, podcasts and support for Magnatune and Jamendo. For
more information, see Rhythmbox's home page.
Mono C# ↑
Mono, the open source development platform based on the .NET framework.
Mono includes compilers, an ECMA-compatible runtime engine (the Common
Language Runtime, or CLR), and many libraries. The libraries include
Microsoft .NET compatibility libraries (including ADO.NET, System.Windows.Forms
and ASP.NET), Mono's own and third party class libraries, Gtk#, a set of .NET
bindings for the gtk+ toolkit and assorted GNOME libraries. There are many great
GNOME applications written in Mono, and GSB provides a few of them:
Banshee
Banshee is a fully featured Mono application aimed at the
GNOME Desktop for organizing and playing your music. You can
import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee's
simple, powerful interface. Banshee can also rip CDs, play and
sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio and MP3 CDs. Most
portable music devices are supported. Banshee also has support for
podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, and much more.
For more information, see Banshee's home page.
Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for GNOME.
Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the
ideas and information you deal with every day. You can find more
details about Tomboy from it's home page.
MonoDevelop is a free GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and
other .NET languages. The main features of MonoDevelop are code
completion, class management, and project support. For more
information, see MonoDevelop's home page.
Networking ↑
NetworkManager
NetworkManager attempts to make networking invisible.
When moving into areas you've been before, NetworkManager
automatically connects to the last user designated network.
Likewise, when back at the desk, NetworkManager will switch to the
faster, more reliable wired connection. GSB provides the latest
NetworkManager 0.7, including the network-manager applet for your GNOME panel,
and VPN connection support with openvpn, pptp and vpnc. For more information, see
NetworkManager's home page.
Evolution
Evolution provides integrated mail, addressbook and
calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop. It
features intelligent junk mail control, foldering searching,
integrated security, GNOME Desktop integration, mail filters, web
calendars, collaboration server support, and multiple account
management. For more information, see Evolution's home page.
Epiphany
Epiphany is the web browser for the GNOME desktop. Its
goal is to be simple and easy to use. Epiphany ties together many
GNOME components in order to let you focus on the Web content,
instead of the browser application. Powered by the Gecko engine,
Epiphany displays webpages with the same speed and accuracy as
Mozilla Firefox. In addition, it provides an elegant, responsive
and uncomplicated user interface that fits in perfectly with
GNOME. For more information, see Epiphany's's home page.
Deluge
Deluge is a full-featured BitTorrent client for Linux.
It uses libtorrent in it's backend and PyGTK for it's user
interface. Deluge features a rich plugin collection (in fact, most
of Deluge's functionality is available in the form of
plugins). Deluge was created with the intention of being
lightweight and unobtrusive, and is Free Software and licensed
under the GNU General Public License. For more information, see
Deluge's home
page.
Ekiga
Ekiga is an open source VoIP and video conferencing
application for GNOME. Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP
protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is
interoperable with other SIP compliant software and also with
Microsoft NetMeeting. It supports proxies, registrars, instant
messaging, transparent NAT, call forwarding, and call holds and
transfers. For more information, see Ekiga's home page.
Liferea
Liferea is a news reader capable of aggregating
syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts,
and vlogs into a single location for easy viewing. It supports
subscriptions to feeds that contain audio or video media
enclosures, is very fast, easy to use, and integrates beautifully
into the GNOME Desktop. For more information, see Liferea's
home page.
GNOME Office Suite and OpenOffice ↑
GNOME SlackBuild includes a full GNOME office suite, including a multiple format document viewer, a fully feature word processor, a personal database management program, document search tools, a flowcart/diagram tool, and a accurate and fast spreadsheet program.
OpenOffice.Org 3.1 Suite
In additional to a full GNOME Office suite, which includes Abiword,
GNUCash, Gnumeric, and Glom, GNOME SlackBuild provides the option of an
integrated OpenOffice package, including Writer, Impress, Math,
and Web Writer, all built using the GTK widget set to seamlessly match your
GNOME Desktop. There is also a package to install an OpenOffice.org
submenu in your GNOME Applications menu. For more information see
OpenOffice.org's home page.
Tracker
Tracker is a tool designed to extract information and
metadata about your personal data so that it can be searched
easily and quickly. By using Tracker, you no longer have to
remember where you've left your files. To locate a file you
only need to remember something about it, such as a word in the
document or the artist of the song. This is because as well as
searching for files in the traditional way, by name and location,
Tracker searches files' contents For more information see
Tracker's home page.
Abiword
AbiWord is a lean and fast full-featured word processor,
with lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs,
or for just some good old typing fun. AbiWord is able to read and
write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org
documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich
Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more. It also
supports page layouts, mail merge, and has an assortment of
plugins. For more information, see Abiword's home page.
Gnumeric
Gnumeric is a spreadsheet application for the GNOME
Desktop. Gnumeric has the ability to import and export data in
several file formats, including CSV, Microsoft Excel, HTML, LaTeX,
Lotus 1-2-3, OpenDocument and Quattro Pro; its native format is
the Gnumeric file format, an XML file compressed with gzip. It
includes all of the spreadsheet functions of the North American
edition of Microsoft Excel and many functions unique to Gnumeric.
For more information, see Gnumeric's home page.
Glom
Glom is a database design tool, loosely based on
FileMaker Pro, but with a separate database server. Its simple
framework should be enough to implement most database
applications. Glom has high-level features such as relationships,
lookups, related fields, related records, calculated fields,
drop-down choices, searching, reports, users and groups. Glom uses
the PostgreSQL database backend. Glom is open source software,
released under the GPL License. For more information, see
Glom's home page.
Dia
Dia is a diagram creation program, similar to Visio,
though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It
can be used to draw many kinds of diagrams. It has special objects
to help draw relationship and UML diagrams, flowcharts, network
diagrams, and others. It can load and save diagrams to a custom
XML format, export diagrams to many formats, including EPS, SVG,
XFIG, WMF and PNG, and print diagrams, even ones that span
multiple pages. For more information, see Dia's home page.
GNU Cash Financial Management
GnuCash is personal and small-business
financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL
and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft
Windows. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible,
GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and
expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register,
it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure
balanced books and accurate reports. For more information see GNU
Cash's home page.
Development Environment ↑
GNOME SlackBuild also provides an intergrated development environment for C/C++, HTML, and Mono.
Anjuta
Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment
(IDE) for C and C++ on GNU/Linux. It has been written for
GTK/GNOME and features a number of advanced programming
facilities. These include project management, application wizards,
an on-board interactive debugger, and a powerful source editor
with source browsing and syntax highlighting. For more
information, see Anjuta's home page.
Bluefish
Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards
programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites,
scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming
and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and
interactive websites. Bluefish is an open source development
project, released under the GNU GPL licence. For more information,
see 's home page.