Projects

dbus-glib

Glib bindings for dbus, soon to die.

PolicyKit

PolicyKit is a framework for defining policy for system-wide components and for desktop pieces to configure it. It is used by HAL.

Hawaii

Hawaii is an easy to use, fast and lightweight desktop environment based on Wayland and Qt technologies. It's been tailored for who wants simplicity, consistency, visual appeal and good design. Hawaii was born to be the Maui desktop environment but can run on any other GNU/Linux distribution.

Oyranos

Oyranos is a Colour Management System (CMS) on operating system level. It allows users to match predictably input device colours to output device colours across supporting applications. Oyranos is based one the well established ICC standard and various other specifications. System wide settings in ... [More] Oyranos shall ensure consistency in a portable fashion. Oyranos will provide in the future a Colour Matching Module (CMM) framework. Users can then transparently select a desired colour engine. [Less]

Garcon

Garcon is an implementation of the freedesktop.org menu specification replacing the former Xfce menu library libxfce4menu. It is based on GLib/GIO only and aims at covering the entire specification except for legacy menus.

libxdg

Features: Straight C-implementation of serializable AVL trees; Access to "Shared MIME-info Database" by using of freedesktop.org xdgmime library; Indexed (by using of AVL trees) access to all ".desktop" files and its contents (implementation of "Desktop Entry ... [More] Specification"); Cache all (include indexes) gathered information from all ".desktop" and ".list" files ("Desktop Entry Specification") into one single binary file which then can be mmap'ed without a single allocation of memory (just updates pointers in mmap'ed memory); Indexed (by using of AVL trees) access to icon themes and its contents (implemetation of "Icon Theme Specification" and "Icon Naming Specification"); Editable set of implemented specifications (at build time); No dependencies. [Less]

Cygwin/X

Cygwin/X is a port of the X Window System to the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems. Cygwin/X runs on all recent consumer and business versions of Windows. Cygwin/X consists of an X Server, X libraries, and nearly all of the standard X clients, such as xterm, xhost, xdpyinfo, xclock ... [More] , and xeyes. Cygwin/X, as the name implies, uses the Cygwin project which provides a UNIX-like API to Xlib and X clients, thereby minimizing the amount of porting required. [Less]

libspectre

libspectre is a small library for rendering Postscript documents. It provides a convenient easy to use API for handling and rendering Postscript documents. libspectre is known to work on UNIX/Linux systems although supporting other platforms (win32, macos) is planned too.

PolicyKit-gnome

PolicyKit-gnome includes GNOME specific code and tools for using PolicyKit from GTK+ applications.

PyXDG

PyXDG provides implementations of several freedesktop.org specifications. Supported specs include base directories, desktop & menu entries, the MIME database, recent files & icon themes.