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The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop, a set of applications and a development platform. It is created by a community of people dedicated to create a free and user-friendly computing experience. KDE offers all necessary means to
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easily build all kinds of applications upon.
KDE has been around since 1996, with code change history dating back at least to 1997.
KDE is one of the biggest free software C++ project around and one of the two leaders of unix desktops. [Less]
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.
A laptop user should never need to use the command line or configuration files to manage their network; it should "Just Work" as automatically as possible and intrude as little as possible into the user's workflow. NetworkManager attempts to make
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networking invisible. When moving into areas you've been before, NetworkManager automatically connects to the last network the user chose to connect to. [Less]
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.
A dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen. It has support for launchers, task lists, applets, and plugins.
PackageKit is a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the session user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API.
GeoClue is a D-Bus API and library that provides all kinds of geographic information to applications. The information may originally come in various forms from many sources (backends), but GeoClue offers it to applications in a simple, abstracted form.
A D-Bus implementation for Ruby, allowing D-Bus clients and services to be written in Ruby.
Daemon for interaction and automated extraction of metadata into the Hyppocampus filesystem
A pure Haskell implementation of client-side DBus.
Glib bindings for dbus, soon to die.
PolicyKit-gnome includes GNOME specific code and tools for using PolicyKit from GTK+ applications.
A Perl script plugin for irssi that uses libnotify's notify-send to give desktop users alerts when messages of interest appear. See the wiki MainPage for more information on setup and features.
To download this plugin, use the source code
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repository ('Source' tab).
LATEST: There is a "dbus-branch" that is using perl::Net::DBus to send these messages instead of a higher-footprint shell call to notify-send. It's currently not usable, but I'm working on it. If you want the working version, just use the version in the trunk. [Less]
EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is small and very portable desktop environment designed to be very lightweight in memory and resource usage.