Free customizable desktop software for linux

Syntax Desktop is a publishing system used to manage the contents of a Web site. Syntax Desktop project has an attractive GUI with DHTML elements.

You can use it to insert news, photos, documents, and tree data structures into your site. It features easy DB backup and style switching.

Syntax Desktop helps you to create and manage large web sites without any knowledge of HTML. Theres an integrated WYSIWYG editor with a friendly user interface similar to common office applications. You can create the contents and a template engine manages all the parts of the site allowing complete control of the application.

Syntax Desktop is based on PHP technology. It is a web application, so it works on a wide range of modern existing IT infrastructures. Syntax Desktop runs with other "open source" technologies (i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQL), but it works also on commercial products (i.e. Windows, IIS, Oracle DB, MS Access).

Moreover, a great virtue of Syntax is its predisposition to being indexed from search engines. Syntax is constructed to generate pages optimized for search engines.

openModeller project is a generic framework for carrying out fundamental niche modelling experiments - typically used to predict species distribution given a set of environmental raster layers.
The openModeller Desktop application builds on the openModeller library by providing a user friendly graphical user interface for carrying out niche modelling experiments.
Enhancements:
- Added experiment level summary report
- Fixed issues with text file splitter and show status when done
- Updated about window to show plugins and changelog
- Installer supports unattended install on windows (install using openModeller1.0.5.exe /S from the command prompt)
- Fixed issues with raster data format convertor
- Enabled locality fetching using scraper plugins and added GBIF Web, GBIF Rest, and speciesLink scrapers
- Fixed issue with splash screen hovering modally over firstrun wizard on mac
- You can now export samples as TAB delimited or CSV delimited text
- Dont smooth images when resampling
- Added support for new (mandatory) locality ids in openModeller library
- Fixed issues with window modality (various dialogs)
- Fix for [ 1636820 ] oM Desktop: Interface unresponsvive during experiment run.
- Fixed bug where ascii export was getting rounded to integers
- Handle missing qgis vector data providers more gracefully
- Double clicking on an item int eh experemient selector will cause it to be loaded
- By Popular request, store the experiment outputs in a folder with a human readable name.
- Fix for [ 1636715 ] oM Desktop: Display output format details in options dialog
- Fix for [ 1636825 ] oM Desktop: Select a mask for layers its not default
- Fixed bug [ 1636706 ] openModeller Desktop: generated ascii raster files headers incorrect
- Add new localities options gui - to support modelling with multiple locality files in one directory
- Fixed bug [ 1642350 ] File format filter missing in export image
- Fix for bug [ 1639715 ] Splash windows go to the limbo
- Show alg name after species name in progress dialog (fixes [ 1682407 ] om Desktop: Progress windows should show alg next to sp name)
- Added some better error handling for aborted models. openModeller Desktop is now much less prone to crashing when a problem occurs in the library.
- Fixed support for building on Mac OSX
- Implemented new build system using CMake
- Cleanups and improvments to windows installer to support on demand downloading of sample data and various other improvements.

Kuartet Desktop project aims to create a visually appealing, easy to use desktop built upon KDE.

Kuartet Desktop consists of a library written around Superkaramba that makes it easy to write desktop applets that are integrated within a centralized desktop theme, a set of very usable desktop applets, and graphical configuration tools.

The main desktop applet is the Kuartet Manager, which provides quick access to documents, applications, bookmarks, etc.

Gnome Desktop Change is a daemon that changes randomly your GNOME desktop background.

Gnome Desktop Change is a daemon that changes randomly your GNOME desktop background. Its totally written in C++, it uses FAM (File Alteration Monitor) to detect changes into directory that contains picture files, and its multithread.

FOX Desktop is a lightweight desktop environment based on the FOX Toolkit.
It includes various tools and programs to make life easier. FOX Desktop includes a desktop and taskbar.
FOX Desktop is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Enhancements:
- The taskbar has been replaced with a more general dockbar which can be docked on all sides of the screen.
- Furthermore, each dockbar may contain different kinds of applets which can be added or removed on the fly.
- This release contains a few builtin applets and one launcher applet which can be used to launch applications.

NetMAX Desktop is a live-CD distribution of Linux upon which NetMAX Server products are based. It includes best of breed applications: Secure Linux (kernel 2.6.11.5), OpenOffice.org, Blender, GAIM, Gnome 2.8, Dia, gtkam, Azureus bittorrent client, Firefox 1.0, Thunderbird 1.0, Totem multimedia player, XINE multimedia player, Wine compatibility layer, hotplug hardware detection and OpenVPN SSL VPN.
This distribution seeks to fill the role of a fully-functional enterprise class desktop system without licensing fees. In contrast to many of the other live-CD distributions out there, it has been designed to be intuitive enough for non-computer savvy folks to use -- including integrated Windows application support.
Power users will find that this distribution puts security first, adheres to published standards, and thus behaves in the way they expect it to. Unlike previous attempts to simplify Linux for the desktop, the power and customizability that has gained the hearts of the open-source community has not been removed.
Main features:
Cutting Edge Features:
- Complete desktop functionality (network files, presentations, spreadsheet, word processors, browser, art generation, digital camera support, etc.)
- Automatic detection of disks and mountable partitions, as well as automatic mounting of USB storage devices and network (NFS) shares
- Built-in NetMAX network file systems, permissions, authentication and provisioning
- Windows application compatibility
- NetMAX Desktop can be run without permanent installation
- NetMAX Desktop can create NIST-certified disk dumps for forensic analysis
- NetMAX Desktop includes a comprehensive suite of Linux-based multi-file system format disk discovery and recovery utilities
NetMAX Desktop is built for security:
- NetMAX Desktop is based on Secure Linux, and meets or exceeds most government security requirements
- NetMAX Desktop has integrated iptables firewall capabilities and SSL-based OpenVPN
Easy to Use and Install:
- Choose to run the NetMAX Desktop direct from CD, without modifying anything on your hard drive
- Or, choose to install the NetMAX Desktop to your hard drive as your default operating system

Asterisk Desktop Manager application interfaces your VOIP telephony with the desktop and Asterisk PBX.
Asterisk Desktop Manager aims to integrate your desktop with the Asterisk PBX and hardware IP phone by providing some useful features such as automatic on-call volume reduction, one click dialling (from the clipboard), BlueTooth presence detection and automatic call redirection when you walk out of the office, a pop up browser on call, and transfer of the current call from the desktop.
Enhancements:
- Automatic on-call volume reduction
- One click dial from clipboard (paste number onto tray icon)
- Integrated phonebook
- List/Redirect/Hangup all active calls
- One click call forward setup
- Bluetooth presence detection to redirect calls when you walk out of the office
- Pop up browser on incoming call (integrate with your CRM to auto load customers details when they call)
- Cisco phone integration (auto speakerphone)
- Slide-in popup on incoming call, with Answer(cisco only), Hold, Busy and Redirect buttons , CallerID and duration