Free hig software for linux

ChatSniff is an easy to use program for Linux that monitors, or "sniffs" networks for AIM, MSN, Yahoo! and Jabber instant messages.
It requires recent versions of python, python-gtk2, python-glade2, and tethereal.
python-pyao (for sound) and gksu are optional, but recommended (the packages require them).
Enhancements:
- Moved to single instance of tethereal
- Removed "any" device from device list
- First time case for net dev selection
- Major HIG/UI adjustments (brad)
- Moved to a single pane view
- Added status bar
- Added auto-start
- Added toolbar
- Major code cleanup
- Packet output cleanup
- Better error dialog formating
- Added versioning to preferences
- Start/stop timestamps
- Help dialog now reflects reality
- No more ugly empty space above first packet
- Sundry minor tweaks

Hardware Monitor is a multi-purpose, beautiful system-monitoring applet.
The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the GNOME panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to system monitoring. It also strives to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your GNOME desktop.
Includes different viewers, including a flame effect, allows multiple devices to be monitored in the samme applet, uses smooth updating, polished graphs, clean HIG-compliant interface.
Main features:
- A graphical view where each monitor is represented by a (time, measurement) colored curve
- A bar-plot view with a horizontal bar per monitor
- A column view with a column (time, measurement) diagram for each monitor
- A textual view which simply lists the monitors and the currently measured values
- A flame view which produces spiffy flames, the sizes of which are determined by the values of the monitored device
And the applet supports monitoring the following hardware characteristics:
- CPU usage (all CPUs, or one at the time) - niced background processes such as SETI@home are automatically ignored
- Memory usage - cache and buffers are automatically ignored
- Swap usage
- Load average
- Disk usage (or disk space free)
- Network throughput (Ethernet, wireless, modem, serial link), either incoming or outgoing or both
- Temperatures from internal sensors (e.g. system board and CPU temperatures)
- Fan speeds from internal sensors

Marlin is a sample editor for Gnome 2. It uses GStreamer for file operations and for recording and playback, meaning it can handle a great number of formats and work with most sound systems.
Main features:
- Can load from a large number of media formats (.mp3, .ogg, .wav, .au, .flac, .mpg, .avi...)
- Can save to many formats (.mp3, .wav, .au, .ogg, .flac...) and use the Gnome-Media profiles
- Can handle large files with no problems
- Handles cut, copy, paste, replace and mix operations
- Infinite levels of Undo/Redo and everything should be undoable
- Fully Gnome 2 HIG compliant
- Can record from a variety of sources (ALSA, OSS, esd, arts)
- Playback
- Can extract audio from CDs (with optional musicbrainz lookup)
- Gnome-VFS support
- Horizontal and Vertical scaling
- Uses GStreamer

Blogfish is the memepool.
Blogfish is social networking meets evolutionary software meets peer-to-pier networking. Blogfish is best eaten wrapped in newspaper, with salt and vinegar. Blogfish is the fin end of the wedge.
More prosaically, blogfish is a Gnome panel applet, written in Python using PyGTK and Gnome-python. It allows you to spread your blog URL, website URL or random thoughts to other users. Good memes survive; bad ones are voted down and go belly up.
Main features:
- New simple peer for running on servers, systems without X
- RPM!
- Bugfixes: no longer sucks so much memory; dies nicely on exit; networking bugs, lots; resizes nicely
- Drag and drop URL to add new fish
- Nice new icon
- UI compatibility with the HIG
- Simpler install script
- Compatibility with Python < 2.3
- Beaten to release by Sarge, FFS

OGMRip is an application and a set of libraries for ripping and encoding DVD into AVI or OGM files using a wide variety of codecs. OGMRip relies on mplayer, mencoder, oggenc, ogmtools and lame to perform its tasks.
The GUI features a clean HIG-compliant GNOME 2 interface and tries to minimize as much as possible esoteric settings.
Main features:
- transcodes from DVD or files
- outputs ogm, avi or matroska files
- calculates video bitrate for a given filesize
- calculates cropping parameters and scaling factors
- supports multiple audio and subtitles streams encoding
- provides a lot of codecs (ogg vorbis, mp3, pcm, ac3, xvid, lavc, x264)
- uses maximum quality codec switches
- rips contiguous chapters
Enhancements:
- glib>= 2.6.0
- libxml >= 2.0
- dvdread >= 0.9.7
- mplayer >= 0.92
- mencoder>= 0.92
- ogmtools>= 1.0
- vorbistools >= 1.0
- lame>= 3.96
- intltool>= 0.35
- pkgconfig >= 0.12

vMovieDB project is a movies collection manager for GNOME desktop. Its GTK+ 2.x, application writen on C, created according to Gnome-HIG standarts, vMovieDB fits perfectly in GNOME Desktop Enviroment.
Main features:
- Play selected movie with your favorite video player.
- Manage various types of information for your movies: title, year, media type, quality, subtitles, location, genre and movie image.
- Genre editor.
- Export your movies to html document.
- Export movies to text document.
- Search for selected movie on ImDB.com.
vMovieDB have fast and light database based on XML.

gtkcdlabel is a GUI frontend to cdlabelgen which is a program that can generate a variety of CD tray covers. The code is came from the idea of gcombust and gcdlabelgen.
Since the last release (0.7.7) Ive pretty much revamped the UI so that logically close UI elements are grouped together - I think its neater and makes navigation easier and faster - but Im no HIG expert.
The latest version (1.0pre1) supports all options of the latest version of cdlabelgen and also has several UI enhancements. You can now also use image formats other than EPS. If you have the program convert from the ImageMagick suite then any format it can handle can be used by gtkcdlabel. All thats left is bugfixes
Sebastian also set up the gtkcdlabel CVS repository so you can now acces it via anonymous CVS.
The versions from 0.7.0 upwards use GTK2 and as a result of the port Im no longer supporting the GTK1 version (i.e. versions before 0.7.0) though the last stable tarballs and RPMs can still be obtained here
Main features:
- Ported to GTK2
- Supports all of the options in cdlabelgen 2.6
- You can supply images of any format that ImageMagic can handle and EPS conversion is carried out on the fly
- Handles UTF8 and locales though no translations currently exist
- Doesnt require libcdaudio to access the CD drive or access freedb.freedb.org
- Itll process the ID3 tags on an MP3 CD

Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book collection.
It is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License and provided without any warranties of any kind.
Main features:
- retrieves and displays book information (including cover pictures) from several online libraries, such as Amazon, Proxis , Barnes and Noble, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Amadeus Buch ;
- allows books to be added and updated by hand ;
- enables searches either by EAN/ISBN, title, authors or keyword ;
- saves data using the YAML format ;
- can import and export data into ONIX, Tellico and EAN/ISBN-list formats ;
- generates from your libraries XHTML web pages themable with CSS ;
- allows marking your books as loaned, each with the loan-date and the name of the person who has borrowed them ;
- features an HIG-compliant user interface ;
- shows books in different views (standard list or icons list), that can be filtered and/or sorted;
- handles book rating and notes ;
- supports CueCat barcode readers ;
- includes translations for several languages.