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Jan 24, 2023

Applets / Design Tooling

• RunCat (⭐275) — The cat tells you the CPU usage by running speed.

Jan 23, 2023

Office

• NFO Viewer - Simple viewer for NFO files, beating text editors with preset font and encoding settings and clickable hyperlink support.

Productivity and Time

• Endeavour - Manage your tasks.

Multimedia

• Easy Effects (⭐4.4k) - Audio effects for PipeWire applications .

System and Customization

• HydraPaper - Set a different background for each monitor.

Jan 21, 2023

Internet and Networking

• Polari - Talk to people on IRC.

• Wrap - Fast and secure file transfer.

• Wike - Search and read Wikipedia articles.

Office

• Citations - Manage your bibliography.

Productivity and Time

• Khronos - Log the time it took to do tasks.

Multimedia

• Amberol - Plays music, and nothing else.

• Mousai - Identify any songs in seconds.

• Podcasts - Listen to your favourite podcasts.

• Zap - Play sounds from a soundboard.

Scientific Tooling

• Plots - Simple graph plotting.

Utilities

• Audio Sharing - Share your computer audio.

• Boatswain - Control your Elgato Stream Decks.

• Decoder - Scan and Generate QR Codes.

• Junction - Junction lets you choose the application to open files and links.

• Kooha - Elegantly record your screen.

• Metronome - Keep the tempo.

Security and Privacy

• Authenticator - Generate Two-Factor Codes.

• Collisions - Check hashes for your files.

• File Shredder - Securely delete your files.

Development and Design

• Lorem - Generate placeholder text.

• Share Preview - Test social media cards locally.

• Text Pieces - Transform text without using random websites.

Development and Design / Design Tooling

• Emblem - Generate project avatars.

Docks and Panels / Design Tooling

• Dash-to-Dock - A fully-featured dock.

• Dock-from-Dash - Simply transform your Dash into a Dock.

Customization and Tweaks / Design Tooling

• Extensions Sync - Syncs gnome shell keybindings, tweaks settings and extensions with their configuration across all gnome installations.

• Quick Settings Tweaker - Tweak your quick settings menu.

Menus / Design Tooling

• Arc Menu - Windows7-like application menu inspired by the one in Zorin OS.

• Fly-Pie - Mouse-based menu.

Applets / Design Tooling

• Clipboard Indicator - Simple clipboard applet.

• Desk Changer - Wallpaper slideshow applet.

• Emoji Selector - Emoji picker applet.

• GSConnect - KDE Connect implementation.

Visual Changes / Design Tooling

• Compiz windows effect - Adds wobbly effects to windows.

• Useless Gaps - For aesthetic purposes adds useless gaps around tiled and maximized windows.

• Desktop Cube (⭐452) - A Desktop Cube for GNOME Shell

• Burn My Windows (⭐2.1k) - Open/Close your windows with style.

Jan 20, 2023

Internet and Networking

• GNOME Web - Official web browser project of GNOME.

• Fragments - BitTorrent client.

• Newsflash - RSS feeds reader.

• Font Downloader - Install fonts from online sources.

• Tangram - Browser for your pinned tabs.

Office

• Apostrophe - Distraction-free Markdown editor.

Productivity and Time

• Solanum - Balance working time and break time.

Well Being

• Blanket - Listen to different sounds.

• Health - Health tracking.

Multimedia

• Shortwave - Client for web-based radio.

• Cozy - Audiobook player.

• Video Trimer - Trim video quickly.

Graphics

• Drawing - Responsive drawing application.

• Identity - Compare image and video.

System and Customization

• Pika Backup - Simple backups based on borg.

• Déjà Dup Backups - Simple backups tool.

Utilities

• Dialect - Translate text.

• Markets - Keep track of your investments.

Security and Privacy

• Obfuscate - Censor private information.

• Metadata Cleaner - View and clean metadata in files.

• Secrets - Keepass-compatible password manager.

Development and Design

• GNOME Builder - Official IDE for creating GNOME applications.

• Webfont Kit Generator - Create @font-face kits easily.

• Workbench - Learn and prototype with GNOME technologies.

• Sysprof - Profile an application or entire system.

Development and Design / Design Tooling

• App Icon Preview - Simple utility to preview icons.

• Palette - Tool for viewing the GNOME colour palette.

• Contrast - Check the contrast between two colors.

Others / Design Tooling

• Boxes - View, access, and manage remote and virtual systems.

Dec 17, 2022

Libraries / Skeumorphic Icons

• Relm4 - Building native applications with Rust and GTK4

Sep 25, 2021

Customization and Tweaks / Design Tooling

• Just Perfection - Customize GNOME Shell.

• Custom Hot Corners - Extended - Customize hot corners.

Visual Changes / Design Tooling

• Blur-my-shell (⭐886) - Apply a blur effect to the overview and top panel background.

Sep 24, 2021

Development and Design

• DevHelp - Developer tool for browsing and searching API documentation.

Development and Design / Design Tooling

• Icon Library - Symbolic icons for your apps.

• Symbolic Preview - Symbolics Made Easy.

Sep 21, 2021

Development and Design

• Commit - Commit message editor.

Sep 04, 2021

System and Customization

• Dynamic Gnome Wallpapers (⭐136) - Gallery of MacOS like dynamic wallpapers, and easy scripts to install them

Aug 27, 2021

Official Venues / Skeumorphic Icons

• Apps for GNOME

Aug 06, 2021

Official Venues / Skeumorphic Icons

• This Week in GNOME - Weekly news from project maintainers from the community.

• Planet GNOME - Federation of GNOME Developers' blogs.

May 05, 2021

Libraries / Skeumorphic Icons

• libadwaita - Library that contain official GNOME patterns and widgets (GTK4)

• libhandy - Building blocks for modern adaptive GNOME apps (GTK3)

Apr 03, 2021

Multimedia

• Clapper (⭐515) - Simple and modern media player.

Mar 24, 2021

Documentations / Skeumorphic Icons

• GTK Documentation - Official GTK documentation.

• GJS Guide - Guide for GJS.

Feb 25, 2021

Multimedia

• Spot (⭐1.7k) - Spotify Client.

Feb 20, 2021

Examples / Skeumorphic Icons

• Hello - Set of Hello World examples for GNOME/GTK in different languages.

Jan 31, 2021

Graphics

• Curtail - Simple & useful image compressor.

System and Customization

• GNOME Tweaks - Graphical interface for advanced GNOME settings.

Security and Privacy

• Passbook - Password manager compatible with freedesktop secrets.

Development and Design

• Gaphor - The simple modeling tool for UML and SysML.

Nov 25, 2020

Applets / Design Tooling

• Caffeine - Applet that let you deactivate the GNOME lock screen.

Nov 05, 2020

Utilities

• Sunflower - Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager.

Oct 13, 2020

Third-party Apps Plugins / Design Tooling

• Nautilus Terminal (⭐294) - Integrates a terminal into Nautilus.

Windows / Design Tooling

• Coverflow Alt-Tab (⭐307) - Advanced fullscreen app switcher.

Audio / Design Tooling

• Application Volume Mixer (⭐86) - Control volume output per-application.

Visual Changes / Design Tooling

• Transparent Shell (⭐13) - Makes some UI elements transparent.

Sep 15, 2020

Graphics

• Color Picker - Color pickle, working on both X11 and Wayland.

Jun 07, 2020

Documentations / Skeumorphic Icons

• GJS Documentation - Documentation for the JavaScript GTK bindings.

Jan 10, 2020

Utilities

• GPaste (⭐628) - Clipboard manager (composed of an application and a gnome-shell extension).

Oct 02, 2019

Internet and Networking

• Cawbird - Twitter client.

Sep 21, 2019

Internet and Networking

• Geary - Modern mail client, created originally by Yorba.

• Feeds - An RSS/Atom feed reader.

• Haguichi - Graphical frontend for Hamachi.

Office

• Foliate (⭐3.9k) - Simple and modern eBook reader.

• Pdftag (⭐59) - Simple metadata editor for PDFs.

• Marker (⭐771) - Markdown editor with an integrated previewer.

Productivity and Time

• GTimeLog (⭐225) - Simple app for keeping track of time.

• Gnome Pomodoro - Simple pomodoro timer.

• Timetrack - Time tracker.

Multimedia

• Celluloid (⭐861) - Simple frontend for mpv.

Graphics

• GThumb - Powerful and advanced application to manage your photos and images.

Gaming

• Lutris (⭐6.1k) - Open Source gaming platform.

System and Customization

• Tilix (⭐5k) - Tiling terminal emulator.

Utilities

• Catfish - Simple search application.

• Detwinner - Simple and fast tool for removing duplicate files.

• Recipes - Cooking application.

Docks and Panels / Design Tooling

• Dash-to-Panel - Make your desktop more similar to W7/KDE.

Menus / Design Tooling

• Application Menu - Category-based menu for applications.

• Places Indicator - Menu that provides fast access to your folders.

Applets / Design Tooling

• Todo.txt - Interface for todo.txt.

• KStatusNotifiers/AppIndicator Support - Appindicator systray.

Windows / Design Tooling

• PaperWM (⭐2k) - Tiled scrollable window management.

Services integration / Design Tooling

• GMail Message Tray (⭐74) - Integrate GMail with your desktop.

Icons / Upstream Style

• GNOME++ (⭐138) - Third-party application icons compatible with GNOME's current guidelines.

• Pop! (⭐160) - Official icon theme of Pop!_OS by System76.

Cursors / Skeumorphic Icons

• ComixCursors - X11 mouse theme with a comics feeling.

Official Venues / Skeumorphic Icons

• GNOME News Feed - Official news posts.

Sep 17, 2019

Multimedia

• Pitivi - Beautiful and powerful video editor.

Jul 10, 2019

Third-party Apps Plugins / Design Tooling

• Firefox GNOME Theme (⭐2.3k) - Integrate Firefox into GNOME-based desktop using Adwaita.

Mar 31, 2019

Official Venues / Skeumorphic Icons

• GNOME's Discourse

• GNOME Wiki

• #gnome on GIMPNet - General-purpose GNOME IRC channel (complete list of channels)

GNOME on Social Networks / Skeumorphic Icons

• @gnome on floss.social

• @GNOMEDesktop on Facebook

• GNOMEDesktop on Peertube

Aug 29, 2018

System and Customization

• Dynamic Wallpaper Editor (⭐189) - Utility for editing GNOME's XML wallpapers

Jun 25, 2018

Office

• Paperwork - Personal document manager for scanned documents and PDFs.

Multimedia

• Lollypop - Beautiful music application.

Jan 23, 2018

Applets / Design Tooling

• Time ++ - A todo.txt manager, time tracker, timer, stopwatch, pomodoro, and alarm clock.

Cursors / Skeumorphic Icons

• Bibata (⭐1k) - Silm material-based cursor theme.

• Capitaine Cursors (⭐929) - An x-cursor theme inspired by macOS and based on KDE Breeze. Designed to be paired with La Capitaine icons.

Sep 25, 2017

GNOME Communities / Skeumorphic Icons

• Reddit

• Stack Overflow

GNOME on Social Networks / Skeumorphic Icons

• @gnome on Twitter

• GNOMEDesktop on Youtube

Sep 13, 2017

Icons / Homogeneous Icons

• Numix Circle (⭐814) - Flat rounded icon theme.

• Numix Square (⭐149) - Flat square icon theme.

Aug 16, 2017

Multimedia

• Vocal (⭐335) - Powerful, beautiful, and simple podcast client for the modern free desktop.

• Parlatype - Audio player specialized for transcription.

Graphics

• Coulr (⭐25) - Convert between RGB and hexadecimal codes for colours.

Gaming

• GNOME Games - Game launcher and an emulation frontend to libretro.

System and Customization

• Menulibre - Manage your applications categories if you use a traditional application menu like Arc or the Application Menu.

Applets / Design Tooling

• Removable Drive Menu - Status menu to show your removable drives.

• OpenWeather - Weather applet.

Icons / Material Icons

• Paper - Material icon theme.

• Papirus (⭐5.6k) - Material icon theme, initially based on Paper.

Icons / Flat Icons

• La Capitaine (⭐1.9k) - Icon inspired by macOS and Material Design guidelines.

Icons / Homogeneous Icons

• Obsidian (⭐163) - Continuation of the famous Faenza theme.

Icons / Skeumorphic Icons

• Elementary XFCE (⭐250) - Desktop-agnostic version of the icons of elementary OS.

Documentations / Skeumorphic Icons

• GNOME Newcomers Wiki - Perfect place to start contributing to GNOME.

• GNOME Developer Center - Contains all the official GNOME documentations.

• Valadoc - Documentation about Vala.

• The Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial - Introduction to writing GTK+ 3 applications in Python.