Projects tagged ‘freedesktop’

The Tango Desktop Project exists to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software.

The XDG Base Directory Specification defines where should user files be looked for by defining one or more base directories relative in with they should be located. This library implements ... [More] functions to list the directories according to the specification and provides a few higher-level functions. [Less]

Portable event sound library

People is a contact management framework which takes advantage of modern contact sources (instant messaging, social networks, mobile devices) as well as legacy ones (address books, corporate ... [More] directories) to gather information that matters in a world where contacts, not applications, are the entry point of activities. One of the goals is to provide consistency of contact information in the applications, which means each contact you get from People binds directly to a real person. People sits on top of a backend system fed by information coming from different contact sources and exposes merged contact information to applications through a D-Bus API. It comes with client libraries for GLib, Vala, Python and C#. IRC: #people-project on irc.freenode.net [Less]

notify almost everything into your desktop system tray tooltip.

A podcatcher and broadcatcher for KDE. It lets you watch TV and listen to Radio shows from the net, for free. KatchTV is independent of channel and feed publishers, including Miro's channel guide, and ... [More] others too. It includes Bittorrent support, and is capable of downloading large movies, in parallel, while you watch something else. Integrates with Konqueror, and KDE media players. KatchTV is an Internet TV broadcatcher and podcatcher, similar to Miro, but for KDE. Supported features include: * Video podcasts ("vodcasts"). * Bittorrent-based broadcatching. * Audio podcasts. * Multiple background downloads of media and updates of feeds, all while you watch/listen to your favourite shows. * Manages any media you download, so that you don't lose track of your disk space. [Less]

Plugin oriented gimmick to glue Linux desktop applications together. At it's simplest it will be easy to configure an action based on an event, but using specific plugins more complex actions can be taken from dbus events.

A modified version of the trashcan application originally written for Puppy Linux by Dan Van Wormer. It was adapted to be non-distribution and non-user specific and updated to the latest version of ... [More] ROX Filer. It is undergoing substantial development in order to make it adhere to the freedesktop.org Desktop Trash Can Specification and related specifications. Apart from the common requirements of this specification, we are working on internationalization, an undo function to ease the recovery of mistakingly trashed items, and towards a better integration into ROX Filer and its Desktop (hopefully, getting it included into the ROX trunk in the future). [Less]

This is a python shell script which acts as wrapper around the 'gnome-open' command line utility to decrypt/encrypt files before opening them using the dedicated application.

WhatImplementation of D-Bus protocol in Tcl. GoalsImplement a Tcl package providing: Marshaling/unmarshaling of data between D-Bus wire format and Tcl internal representation. "Peer" interface to ... [More] D-Bus, i.e. it should be possible to use this package to implement a client for D-Bus system/session messaging bus (calling of methods, emission of signals, object proxying, etc). Peer-to-peer mode of operation is also to be supported. When the core functionality is mature, several other goals look interesting to achieve: Provide interfaces for XOTcl and TclOO object-oriented packages, may be SNIT, to allow "native" implementation of both local and remote objects via OO facilities of these systems. Implement ready-made bindings to Telepathy. StatusEarly stage of development, unusable. [Less]