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 2.22.1 is the latest
version of the GNOME Desktop. There have been a lot of
improvements in GNOME 2.22.1, 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 2.22.1 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.
Window Managers ↑
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.
Compiz-Fusion
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.
GSB comes with Compiz-Fusion, and additional utilties for better integration into the GNOME Desktop.
Metacity
GNOME 2.20 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.
Mulitmedia ↑
GNOME SlackBuild 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 to choose from! GSB offers a range of choice for users to pick from. You can either install your favorite application, or a few to try. You never know, perhaps you might find something you like even more. :)
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.
MPlayer
MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems. It
plays most MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4,
RealMedia, Matroska, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ,
PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs.
You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV
movies. MPlayer is available under the GNU General Public License.
For more information, see MPlayer'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.
Sound Juicer
Sound Juicer is a CD player and ripping tool. It
extracts audio from compact discs and converts it into audio files
that a personal computer or digital audio player can understand
and play. It supports ripping to any audio codec supported by a
GStreamer plugin, such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and uncompressed
PCM formats. Sound Juicer is designed to be easy to use and to
work with little user intervention. For more information, see
Sound Juicer's home page.
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.
Brasero
Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome
Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some
unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and
quickly. It supports ISO imaging, burning, and copying of audio
CDs, data CDs and DVDs, multisession, on-the-fly burning, DVD
editions, and features a fully customisable interface. For more
information, see Brasero's home page.
Dvd::rip
dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in
Perl. It provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to
control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.
It uses the widely known video processing swissknife transcode and
many other Open Source tools to allow for easily configured and
high quality DVD ripping, and even features a a comprehensive
cluster mode, which lets you use all your Linux/Unix hardware for
parallel encoding! For more information, see dvd::rip's
home page.
Kino
Kino is a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It
features excellent integration with IEEE-1394 for capture, VTR
control, and recording back to the camera. It captures video to
disk in Raw DV and AVI format, in both type-1 DV and type-2 DV
(separate audio stream) encodings. You can load multiple video
clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an
edit decision list, and can later export the composite movie in a
number of formats. For more information,see Kino's home page.
Jokosher
Jokosher is a simple and powerful multi-track studio.
Jokosher provides a complete application for recording, editing,
mixing and exporting audio, and has been specifically designed
with usability in mind. It features an easy-to-use interface,
multitrack volume mixing, simple editing with splitting, trimming
and moving tools, importing tools, a range of instruments, and
export tools to MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV and anything else
GStreamer supports. For more information,see Jokosher's
home page.
Internet and Networking ↑
GNOME 2.22.1 features many improvements in its connectivity and networking suite. GNOME's email and groupware client, Evolution, has several new features. Users of Microsoft Exchange will welcome improvements to Evolution's Exchange support. GNOME's integrated web browser, Epiphany, has been subtly but significantly improved. GNOME SlackBuild also features a number of other networking applications.
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
and improved NetworkManager 0.7 from svn, including the
network-manager applet for your GNOME panel, and VPN connection
support with openvpn 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.
Drivel
Drivel is a GNOME client for working with online
journals or blogs. It retains a simple and elegant design while
providing many powerful features, including support for
LiveJournal, Blogger, MovableType, Advogato, and Atom journals
(including WordPress and Drupal); the ability to post, edit,
delete, and view recent entries, integrated spellchecking and HTML
syntax highlighting, offline composition and editing, automatic
recovery, and journal system extensions. For more information, see
Drivel'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.
Office Suite ↑
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.
GNOME SlackBuild also provides a OpenOffice.org Office Suite 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.
OpenOffice.Org 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.
Evince
Evince is a document viewer for multiple document
formats. It currently supports pdf, postscript, djvu, tiff and
dvi. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document
viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple
application. It features integrated search, thumbnails of pages,
pdf encryption and by using the GNOME printing framework, Evince
can print any document it can open. For more information see
Evince'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.
MonoDevelop
Mono Project is an open development initiative sponsored
by Novell to develop an open source, UNIX version of the Microsoft
.NET development platform. Its objective is to enable UNIX
developers to build and deploy cross-platform .NET Applications.
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.
Glade Development
glade3 is a RAD tool to enable quick and easy
development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit and the GNOME
desktop environment. The user interfaces designed in glade3 are
saved as XML, and by using the libglade library these can be
loaded by applications dynamically as needed. glade XML files can
be used in numerous programming languages including C, C++, Java,
Perl, Python, C#, Pike, Ruby, Haskell, Objective Caml and Scheme.
For more information, see Glade's home page.
Graphic Design and Digital Imagery↑
Gimp
The GIMP is a powerful tool for the preparation and
manipulation of digital images. The GIMP provides the user with a
wide variety of image manipulation, painting, processing, and
rendering tools. The GIMP's open design and extensible
architecture make for a very powerful end product for photo and
image retouching, web graphics design, or digital illustration.
For more information, see Gimp's home page.
Eye of Gnome
The Eye of GNOME image viewer is the official image
viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment. With it, you can view
single image files, as well as large image collections. The Eye of
GNOME supports a variety of image file formats. The GdkPixbuf
library determines which file formats Eye of GNOME can load and
save. If the appropriate plugins are installed on your system,
Image Viewer will be able to open more image formats. For more
information, see Eye of Gnome's home page.
Blender
Blender is an integrated suite of tools enabling the
creation of a broad range of 3D content. It can be used to create
3D visualizations, stills as well as broadcast and cinema quality
video. It features fully integrated creation suite, offering a
broad range of essential tools for the creation of 3D content,
including modeling, texturing, animation, particle and other
simulation, rendering, compositing, post-production, and game
creation. For more information, see Blender's home page.
Inkscape
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with
capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using
the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones,
alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a
streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform
complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. For more
information, see Inkscape's home page.
Gthumb
gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME
Desktop. It acts as an image viewer, browser, and organizer. It
also features an image editor, can import images from a digital
camera, and can be used to make slide shows, creates index image,
create web albums, convert image formats, find duplicated images,
or write images to CD/DVD. For more information, see gThumb's
home page.