Projects tagged ‘interface’, ‘linux’, and ‘x’

X.Org provides an open source implementation of the network-transparent X Window System, as well as working on the standard itself. The development work is being done as part of the freedesktop.org community, sponsored by the X.Org Foundation.

The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.

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 ... [More] experience. KDE offers all necessary means to 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]

Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework. Using Qt, you can write applications once and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources. This Ohloh project only contains the core components of Xfce!

The KDE libraries, basis of KDE and used by many open source projects. They are based on Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform toolkit, and run on Linux, BSDs, and other Unices, as well as Microsoft Windows ... [More] and Mac OS X. Licensed under GNU LGPL, they may be used by open source and proprietary applications. [Less]

LXDE is a free desktop environment for Unix and other POSIX compliant platforms, such as Linux or BSD. The name LXDE stands for "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment". LXDE is a project aimed to ... [More] provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It's not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop environments, we don't tightly integrate every component. Instead, we tried to make all components independent, and each of them can be used independently with few dependencies. LXDE uses Openbox as its default Window Manager and aims at offering a lightweight and fast desktop based on mutually independents components. [Less]

libNUI is a hardware accelerated GUI framework that makes it possible to build rich multi-platform applications based on 3D rendered dynamic layouts. Interfaces are built as a composition of widgets ... [More] and behaviors, and the framework handles positioning, resizing, anchoring, and texture stretching. Objects are connected with synchronous events and delegates for mono-threaded communication, or asynchronous notifications and message queues are used for multi-threaded applications. It also supports strings (including Unicode), paths, files, data streams, fonts, threads, critical sections, audio buffer rendering, and more. [Less]

Backbone is a user environment, using the GNUstep libraries, using the design of the NeXTstep/OPENSTEP user environment as a springboard; the idea is to do better, not just different.

KTK is an efficient and easy-to-use C++ GUI library for Linux. KTK emulates its entire widgets set, and is completely themeable. KTK tries to perform tasks with minimal lines of code using a highly object-oriented design.