GNOME Core Apps List

[lokesh-krishna]

Found this today: https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2017/08/13/gnome-3-26-core-applications/

Should help us in avoiding ambiguity regarding which apps are classified as core GNOME apps and which aren't.

Here is the entire list as it is right now:

• Archive Manager (File Roller)
• Boxes
• Calculator
• Calendar (gnome-calendar, not california)
• Characters (gnome-characters, not gucharmap)
• Cheese
• Clocks
• Contacts
• Disk Usage Analyzer (Baobab)
• Disks (gnome-disk-utility)
• Document Viewer (Evince)
• Documents
• Files (Nautilus)
• Fonts (gnome-font-viewer)
• Help (Yelp)
• Image Viewer (Eye of GNOME)
• Logs (gnome-logs, not gnome-system-log)
• Maps
• Music
• Photos
• Screenshot
• Software
• Simple Scan
• System Monitor
• Terminal
• Text Editor (gedit)
• To Do
• Videos (Totem)
• Weather
• Web (Epiphany)

[Kazhnuz]

Nice ! It'll provide good guidelines to mark Core application.

[Kazhnuz]

I'm working on the "gnome-core" branch on adding references to this list. I'm trying to find if there is a place where they auto-update the list.

[lokesh-krishna]

Seeing how that document refers to the previous update, which too was a similar blog post accompanying the release of GNOME 3.22, I think there isn't a separate auto-updating list that.

What we can do is revisit this issue every 6 months (each GNOME release) and see if a new list has been posted. We could mention the changes here and then add any new apps to the contribution guidelines.

[Kazhnuz]

Yep, I didn't find one. I'll try to add in the branch all the core apps in the list this week-end. Should we add in parenthesis the "development" name like "Files (Nautilus)" ?

[lokesh-krishna]

Hmmm...
I think it would be okay to do that. What do you think?

[Kazhnuz]

I just feared a bit that it could make the list a bit cluttered, but we have longer names, so it might be fine.

[Kazhnuz]

Seems like the GNOME project is talking about this question right now, and it might give us a good set of guidelines : https://discourse.gnome.org/t/official-proposal-how-we-define-gnome-software/3371