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Git Clients

gitg – streamlined Git client for GNOME

November 11, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Programming

gitg is a streamlined GNOME Git client for browsing history, inspecting diffs, staging hunks, committing changes, and managing branches.

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VGrive – Google Drive client

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

VGrive is a client (back-end and front-end) for Google Drive.

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Music

Rygel – home media solution (UPnP AV MediaServer)

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Rygel is a home media solution (UPnP AV MediaServer) that allows you to easily share audio, video and pictures to other devices.

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XMPP

Dino – modern open-source chat client

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Dino is a modern chat client for the desktop. It focuses on providing a clean and reliable Jabber/XMPP experience.

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Linux Chess Apps

GNOME Chess – chess game for the GNOME desktop

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms Games, GUI

GNOME Chess is a straightforward desktop chess game for human or computer play, with automatic detection of UCI and CECP chess engines.

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VoIP

Venom – modern Tox client

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Venom is a modern Tox client. The client uses toxcore and libconfig.

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API

quickDocs – developer docs reader

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

quickDocs is billed as a fast developer docs reader.

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Wallpaper Setter

Komorebi – animated wallpaper manager

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms Utilities

Komorebi brings image, video and web-page wallpapers to Linux desktops, with a wallpaper creator and customisable animated backgrounds.

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Webcam Tools

Cheese – capture photos and videos with your webcam

November 8, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

Cheese is a GNOME webcam application for taking photos and recording videos, with countdown capture, burst mode and graphical effects.

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Stock Market Investment Tools

TradeSim – stock market trading simulator

November 7, 2023 Steve Emms Financial

TradeSim is designed to let you test your strategies. Learn, try or develop new strategies for your trading.

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Web Browsers

Midori – lightweight web browser

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Midori (Japanese for green) is a lightweight open source web browser based on WebKit and the GTK+ 2 or GTK+ 3 interface.

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Photo collection

gThumb – image viewer, browser and organiser for GNOME

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

gThumb is a GTK4 image viewer and organiser with photo browsing, metadata editing, image adjustments, animation support and format conversion.

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GUI Prototyping

Akira – design application for prototyping

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Programming

Akira is a native Linux design application built in Vala and GTK. Akira is free and open source software that runs under Linux.

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Puzzle Games

GNOME 2048 – single-player sliding tile puzzle

November 2, 2023 Steve Emms Games

GNOME 2048 is a 2048-like game for GNOME.

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Free and Open Source Board Games

Mahjongg – solitaire (one player) version of the classic Eastern tile game, Mahjongg

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Mahjongg is a solitaire (one player) version of the classic Eastern tile game, Mahjongg. The objective is to select pairs of similar tiles.

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Task Manager

Planify – task manager for GNOME

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Planify manages tasks, projects, reminders and schedules with Todoist, Nextcloud and CalDAV synchronisation in a native GNOME interface.

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Remote Display

Connections – GNOME remote desktop client

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Connections is GNOME’s streamlined remote desktop client for connecting to Linux, Windows and virtual machines using RDP and VNC.

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Compression

Image Optimizer – simple lossless image optimizer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Image Optimizer is a simple program that provides lossless compression.

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Sticky Notes

Notejot – simple sticky notes application

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Notejot captures short ideas and reminders in colourful notes with pinning, editable text, note resizing and simple keyboard controls.

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Application Launchers

Gnome-Pie – slick application launcher for Linux

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Gnome-Pie is a circular application launcher for Linux that’s meant to be fun, easy to use, fast, and visually attractive.

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