GNOME is designed to help you use your computer in control.
The gnome-desktop3 package has been designed from the ground up to help you have the best computing experience.
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Core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop
The GNOME Shell redefines user interactions with the GNOME desktop. In particular, it offers new paradigms for launching applications, accessing documents, and organizing open windows in GNOME. Later, it will introduce a new applets eco-system and offer new solutions for other desktop features, such as notifications and contacts management. The GNOME Shell is intended to replace functions handled by the GNOME Panel and by the window manager in previous versions of GNOME. The GNOME Shell has rich visual effects enabled by new graphical technologies.
The gnome-control-center-filesystem contains directories where applications can install configuration files that are picked up by the control-center utilities in this package.
This package provides the basic session management tools, ant it manages a GNOME desktop or GDM login session.