This package contains the basic libraries for the GNOME 2.x Desktop
platform. GNOME has no specific window manager. You are totally free in
your choice. Many GNOME users like Sawfish, Enlightenment, or IceWM as
a window manager for GNOME (see those packages).

The GNOME Keyring is a program that keep password and other secrets
for users. The libgnome-keyring library is used by applications to
integrate with the GNOME Keyring system.

Libgnomecanvas is a graphical add-on for the GNOME User Interface
libraries.

A gobject (GLib) wrapper for IPP printer management, which is used by
CUPS. Mainly used by the GNOME printing system.

GNOME keyboard library, utility and applet.

This package contains the GNOME 2.x printing library, which provides a
simple and clean API for GNOME programs that have to print documents.

This library contains all user-interface related functions to the GNOME
printing subsystem.

Libgnomesu is a library for providing superuser privileges to GNOME
applications. It supports sudo, consolehelper, PAM, and su.

This library contains all the user interface-related functions for
GNOME-based software. You need the libgnomeui-devel package if you want
to develop GNOME 2.x Desktop software.

A library for reading and writing structured files (MS OLE and Zip, for
example).

A library that fetches information about the running system, such as
CPU and memory usage and active processes.

On Linux systems, this information is taken directly from the /proc
file system. On other systems, a server is used to read information
from /dev/kmem.

This is a library to download weather information from online sources.

LibIDL is a small library for creating parse trees of CORBA
v2.2-compliant Interface Definition Language (IDL) files. IDL is a
specification for defining interfaces that can be used between
different CORBA implementations.

libimobiledevice is a software library that talks the protocols to support
iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices. Unlike other projects, it does not depend
on using any existing `.dll` or `.so` libraries from Apple.

libiptcdata is a library for parsing, editing, and saving IPTC data.

libiptcdata is a library for manipulating the International Press
Telecommunications Council (IPTC) metadata stored within multimedia
files such as images. This metadata can include captions and keywords,
often used by popular photo management applications. The library
provides routines for parsing, viewing, modifying, and saving this
metadata. The libiptcdata package also includes a command line utility,
iptc, for editing IPTC data in JPEG files. The library implements the
IPTC Information Interchange Model according to its specification.

Kate is a codec for karaoke and text encapsulation for Ogg. Most of the
time, this would be multiplexed with audio/video to carry subtitles,
song lyrics (with or without karaoke data), etc, but doesn't have to be.
A possible use of a lone Kate stream would be an e-book. Moreover, the
motion feature gives Kate a powerful means to describe arbitrary curves,
so hand drawing of shapes can be achieved.

This was originally meant for karaoke use, but can be used for any
purpose. Motions can be attached to various semantics, like position,
color, etc, so scrolling or fading text can be defined.

Liblouis is an open-source braille translator and back-translator.
It features support for computer and literary braille, supports
contracted and uncontracted translation for many, many languages
and has support for hyphenation. New languages can easily be added
through tables that support a rule- or dictionary based approach.

Liblouis also supports math braille (Nemeth and Marburg). The
formatting of braille is provided by the companion project
liblouisxml.

Liblouis is based on the translation routines in the BRLTTY
screenreader for Linux. It has, however, gone far beyond these
routines. It is named in honor of Louis Braille.

Included are also tools for testing and debugging tables.

LibMMS is a common library for parsing mms:// and mmsh:// type network streams.
These are commonly used to stream Windows Media Video content over the web.
LibMMS itself is only for receiving MMS stream, it doesn't handle sending at
all.

The Module Loading library offers the choice to use prelinked libraries
from your application out of a pool.

libnice is an implementation of the IETF's draft Interactive
Connectivity Establishment standard (ICE).

D-BUS notifications library.

Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations
over instant messaging by providing: Encryption No one else can read
your instant messages. Authentication You are assured the correspondent
is who you think it is. Deniability The messages you send do not have
digital signatures that are checkable by a third party. Anyone can
forge messages after a conversation to make them look like they came
from you. However, during a conversation, your correspondent is assured
the messages he sees are authentic and unmodified. Perfect forward
secrecy If you lose control of your private keys, no previous
conversation is compromised.

libpeas is a gobject-based plugin engine, and is targetted at giving
every application the chance to assume its own extensibility.

libplist is a library for handling Apple Binary and XML Property Lists.

libproxy offers the following features: * extremely small core
footprint (< 35K)

* no external dependencies within libproxy core (libproxy modules
may have dependencies)
* only 3 functions in the stable external API
* dynamic adjustment to changing network topology
* a standard way of dealing with proxy settings across all scenarios