GNOME is a powerful but simple desktop environment with a strong focus on usability, accessibility, and internationalization. GNOME is designed to be usable by everybody, regardless of technical expertise, disabilitites, or native language. GNOME makes it easy for people to use their computers.
The GNOME platform provides a comprehensive development environment for graphical applications and other software. GNOME provides a comprehensive developer platform that allow developers to create professional software that is easy to use and aesthetically pleasing. Using the technologies in GNOME, you can create high-quality software to meet and exceed your users' expectations. This document provides a high-level overview of the GNOME platform along with links to detailed documentation on each part of the platform.
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Feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces
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Stunning graphics and animations with a scene-graph API
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The power of HTML5 and the web in your application
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Playing, creating and manipulating sound, video, and other media
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An easy to use, efficient and flexible UPnP framework
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Asynchronous file and URI handling with access
to file and volume info
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Powerful networking API built on the GIO stream classes
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Standard interprocess communications bus
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Simple audio API for notifications and events
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Integration with the desktop-wide address book and calendar
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Common relational database access
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Topic-oriented help system
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Secure storage for passwords and other data
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Interactive notifications in the messaging tray
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Unified and integrated real-time communication service
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