JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format.It is easy for humans to
read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate.

JSON-GLib provides a parser and a generator GObject classes and various
wrappers for the complex data types employed by JSON, such as arrays
and objects.

JSON-GLib uses GLib native data types and the generic value container
GValue for ease of development. It also provides integration with the
GObject classes for direct serialization into, and deserialization from,
JSON data streams.

Libart is a library for high-performance 2D graphics. It is currently
being used as the antialiased rendering engine for GNOME Canvas. It is
also the rendering engine for Gill, the GNOME Illustration application.

libass is a portable subtitle renderer for the ASS/SSA
(Advanced Substation Alpha/Substation Alpha) subtitle
format. It is mostly compatible with VSFilter.

Bonobo is a component system for the GNOME platform. Libbonobo is the
new version for the GNOME 2.x Desktop platform.

This library contains the Bonobo-related part of the GNOME UI
libraries.

Libburnia is a project for reading, mastering and writing optical discs.
Currently it is comprised of libraries named libisofs, libburn,
libisoburn, a cdrecord emulator named cdrskin, and xorriso, a tool for
creating and manipulating ISO 9660 filesystem images.

libcanberra is an implementation of the XDG Sound Theme and Name
Specifications, for generating event sounds on free desktops, such as
GNOME. It comes with several backends (ALSA, PulseAudio, null) and is
designed to be portable.

This CDDA reader distribution ('libcdio-cdparanoia') reads audio from the CDROM directly as data, with no analog step between, and writes the data to a file or pipe as .wav, .aifc or as raw 16 bit linear PCM.

Libchamplain is a C library providing a ClutterActor to display maps. It
also provides a Gtk+ widget to display maps in Gtk+ applications.

It supports numerous free map sources such as OpenStreetMap,
OpenAerialMap and Maps for free.

Libcroco is a stand-alone CSS2 parsing library. It provides a low-level
event-driven SAC-like API and a CSS object model-like API.

libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl. Drivers are distributed separately from the library itself.

libESMTP is a library to manage posting (or submission of) electronic
mail using SMTP to a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as
Exim. It may be used as part of a Mail User Agent (MUA) or another
program that must be able to post electronic mail but where mail
functionality is not that program's primary purpose.

GNU Data Access (GDA) is an attempt to provide uniform access to
different kinds of data sources (databases, information servers,
mail spools, etc). It is a complete architecture that provides
everything needed to access data.

libgdata is a GLib-based library for accessing online service APIs using
the GData protocol — most notably, Google's services. It provides APIs
to access the common Google services, and has full asynchronous support.

Libgee is a collection library providing GObject-based interfaces and
classes for commonly used data structures.

gexiv2 is a GObject-based wrapper around the Exiv2 library. It makes the
basic features of Exiv2 available to GNOME applications.

This library allows you to load Glade interface files in a program at
runtime. It does not require that you use Glade, but Glade is the
easiest way to create the interface files. For an idea of how to use
the library, see the documentation, especially
/usr/share/doc/packages/libglade/test-libgladee.c and the glade-xml.h
include, which is in the libglade package.

This package provides a C++ interface for libglade. It is a subpackage
of the gnomemm project. The interface provides a convenient interface
for C++ programmers to use libglade with flexible object-oriented
framework.

Game_Music_Emu is a collection of video game music file emulators that support
the following formats and systems:
- AY: ZX Spectrum/Amstrad CPC
- GBS: Nintendo Game Boy
- GYM: Sega Genesis/Mega Drive
- HES: NEC TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
- KSS: MSX Home Computer/other Z80 systems (doesn't support FM sound)
- NSF/NSFE: Nintendo NES/Famicom (with VRC 6, Namco 106, and FME-7 sound)
- SAP: Atari systems using POKEY sound chip
- SPC: Super Nintendo/Super Famicom
- VGM/VGZ: Sega Master System/Mark III, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive,BBC Micro

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.