Free gnome desktop environment software for linux

Equinox Desktop Environment (shortly EDE) is small desktop environment, builted to be simple and fast.
Comparing to other desktop environments, EDE is much faster and smaller in memory space (EDEs window manager use less memory than xterm).
The word "equinox" comes from the Latin for "equal night". The equinoxes in March and September are the two occasions each year when the day and the night are of equal duration.
For measuring the length of a day, sunrise is the moment when the sun is half-above the horizon and sunset is the moment when the sun is half-under the horizon. Using this definition, the length of the day (and the night) is precisely 12 hours at an equinox.
Main features:
- desktop with icons and wallpaper;
- Xft font anti-aliasing;
- taskbar with configurable menu, cpu status, easy keyboard switching;
- theming;
- localization;
Graphical front-end for:
- xscreensaver configuration;
- software installation (.rpm, .deb, .tgz);
- time and time-zone configuration;
- fast file and directory serch utility;

Techisa Desktop Environment is a lightweight alternative desktop environment developed using Qt.
The projects goal is to provide users with a comfortable environment using as few resources as possible. Only a Brazillian Portuguese translation is currently available.
Enhancements:
- Better support for KDE desktop files.
- Improved recognition of KDM/GDM sessions.
- New icon search paths.
- Enhancements to the TDE menu.
- Better handling of links and properties.
- TDESU shows correct error codes.
- Thumbnails.
- A tree view in the file browser. tdeopen accepts new parameters: [file name] directly executes a file or associated application, and -f [source] [destination] shows a popup allowing user to copy, move, or link.

gnome-python-desktop package contains a few python modules that used to live in gnome-python-extras:
- gnomeapplet
- gnomeprint, gnomeprint.ui
- gtksourceview
- wnck
- totem.plparser
- gtop
- nautilusburn
- mediaprofiles
- metacity
Enhancements:
General:
- With recent pygtk, add a __version__ attribute to modules (Gustavo)
Gnomekeyring:
- Allow some parameters to be None (Sebastian Rittau, Gustavo)

gnome-desktop package is free software and is part of the GNOME project.

gnome-desktop package contains the libgnome-desktop library which contains APIs that really belong in libgnome[ui] but have not seen enough testing or development to be considered stable. Use at your own risk.

Also contained here are documents installed as part of the core GNOME distribution, e.g. a copy of the GPL, the gnome-about program, some manpages and GNOMEs core graphics files and icons.

Logical Desktop is a desktop environment. A "desktop environment" is a program that allows you to do many different things with your computer, but in a consistent way. Desktop environments can be seen as a "dogma" of how things should be done, and how they should look and feel.

Examples of desktop environments are KDE, Gnome, the Windows interface, etc.

In Logical Desktop, like in all desktop environments, you work by composing actions made of one verb and one or more objects (e.g. "Print" is the verb, and the objects are the printer, the files to print, and the program used for printing).

Logical Desktop is how you specify those things: 1) in any order 2) with automatic hiding of the things that dont make sense.

1. In any order: Logical Desktop enables you to specify your action with many possible styles of interaction (file-oriented, task-oriented, program-oriented, device-oriented). Logical Desktop can do that because it treats verbs and objects with complete symmetry and uniformity: you can select both verbs and objects, and in any order.

2. With automatic hiding: Logical Desktop is more intelligent than traditional systems because it hides the unnecessary things while you are composing the action. More precisely, Logical Desktop hides those verbs/files/devices/programs that make no sense with the current selection.
Combining this with the previous point (that you can select anything in any order), we obtain a very powerful mechanism: if you select a verb first, the objects that dont make sense with it are hidden; if you select an object first, the verbs that dont make sense with it are hidden.

GNOME Bluetooth control remoto (AKA GBTcr) It is meant to be a fast and functional remote control for GNOME Desktop working between a Sony Ericssons phone mobile (maybe others) and computer box using Bluetooth comunication protocol.
Main features:
- Realtime control by plugins for:
- Music player. (beep-media-player, xmms)
- Video player. (mplayer, totem, xine)
- Slideshow software. (ooimpress, magic point)
- Image Viewer. (gthumb, gqview)
- Mouse and Keyboard events.
- Nice and HIGgy GNOME gui GTK+ based.
- Notification Area Support (Tray Icon)

GNOME Sudoku is a GNOME-based puzzle game. Sudoku is a popular puzzle Japanese logic game. GNOME Sudoku intends to provide a simple interface for generating, playing, saving, printing and solving Sudoku puzzles.

At present, GNOME Sudoku supports infinite undo, generation of symmetric puzzles with unique solutions, and basic features to help gameplay.

GNOME Office is the premier suite of office productivity applications designed for the GNOME desktop environment.
Some of the applications also can run on Windows or Mac OS X. They provide powerful, efficient office productivity capabilities as free (GPL) software.
Main features:
- AbiWord word processor
- Gnumeric spreadsheet
- Gnome-DB data access components