ORBit is a high-performance CORBA (Common Object Request Broker
Architecture) ORB (Object Request Broker). It allows programs to send
requests and receive replies from other programs, regardless of the
locations of the two programs. CORBA is an architecture that enables
communication between program objects, regardless of the programming
language they are written in or the operating system they run on.

You will need to install this package if you want to run programs that
use the CORBA technology ORBit implementation.

PAN is a very powerful newsreader. Its user interface is loosely based
on other popular newsreaders.

PulseAudio Preferences (paprefs) is a simple GTK based configuration
dialog for the PulseAudio sound server.

Please note that this program can only configure local servers, and
requires that a special module module-gconf is loaded in the sound
server.

Pixman is a pixel manipulation library for X and cairo.

The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about installed
libraries in the system. It is typically used to compile and link
against one or more libraries.

Planner is a project management tool for the GNOME desktop, for
planning, scheduling and tracking projects.

polkit-gnome provides an authentication agent for PolicyKit
that matches the look and feel of the GNOME desktop.

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.

Rarian is designed to be a replacement for scrollkeeper. It is
currently undergoing heavy development. As of writing, rarian can be
installed in place of scrollkeeper and everything will work okay (as
far as my testing indicates)

The Schroedinger project implements portable libraries for the high
quality Dirac video codec created by BBC Research and Development.
Dirac is a free and open source codec producing very high image quality
video. The project produces two libraries in ANSI C89, one for decoding
and one for encoding.

This package contains:

- The freedesktop.org shared MIME database spec.

- The merged GNOME and KDE databases, in the new format.

- The update-mime-database command, used to install new MIME data.

The default freedesktop.org sound theme following the XDG theming
specification. (http://0pointer.de/public/sound-theme-spec.html).

Startup-notification contains a reference implementation of the
startup-notification protocol.

This is the Tango base theme. On top of that, the package includes
some specific icons from the legacy tango-icon-theme-extras package.

A connection manager for Telepathy that provides support for AIM, ICQ,
MSN, Yahoo! and Groupwise using Pidgin's libpurple.

Telepathy-idle provides IRC support for Telepathy.

A connection manager for Telepathy that implements peer to peer XMPP
using local-link as done by and compatible with Apple Bonjour(tm) chat.

WebRTC is an open source project that enables web browsers with Real-Time
Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple Javascript APIs. The WebRTC
components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.

WebRTC implements the W3C's proposal for video conferencing on the web.

A companion to xdg-user-dirs that integrates it into the Gnome desktop
and Gtk+ applications. Presents a dialog when a user changes locales
to help move they standard user directories to the correct names.

Some scripts to support translators working on GNOME and similar
programs. Data available in XML files (.oaf, .desktop, .sheet, and
more) can be extracted into PO files. After translation, the new
information is written back into the XML files.

The pkg-config program is used to retrieve information about installed
libraries in the system. It is typically used to compile and link
against one or more libraries.

AT-SPI is a general interface for applications to make use of the
accessibility toolkit. This version is based on dbus.

AT-SPI is a general interface for applications to make use of the
accessibility toolkit. This version is based on dbus.

This package contains the AT-SPI registry daemon. It provides a
mechanism for all assistive technologies to discover and interact
with applications running on the desktop.

The ATK library provides a set of accessibility interfaces. By
supporting the ATK interfaces, an application or toolkit can be used
with screen readers, magnifiers, and alternate input devices.