Translations by Steve Langasek

evilwm is based on aewm by Decklin Foster. It's minimalist in that it omits unnecessary stuff like window decorations and icons. But it's very usable in that it provides good keyboard control with repositioning and maximize toggles, solid window drags, snap-to-border support, and virtual desktops.

This is the GNOME Desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop, with extra components.

ALSA library additional plugins

This is a transitional dummy package, it can be safely removed.

Documentation for libtorrent-rasterbar

This package contains documentation and example files.

If you just want to pick and choose the core components then feel free to remove this package.

OpenHPI is an implementation of the Service Availability Forum's Hardware Platform Interface specification. (See http://www.saforum.org) As such, OpenHPI facilitates the development of computer manageability applications which are not tied to a single hardware vendor's products.

Layout and rendering of internationalized text - installed tests

This package contains test programs, designed to be run as part of a regression testsuite.

PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.

Python 3 interface for libparted

This package contains Python 3 extension itself.

Loadable modules for extending Sylpheed features

This package comprises all loadable plugins which are included with Sylpheed sources. Plugins extend Sylpheed by providing new features and/or capabilities not present in core application.

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources.

100 dpi ISO 8859-5 encoded Cyrillic fonts for X (Cronyx collection)

This package provides a set of bitmapped Cyrillic fonts at 100 dots per inch. These are ISO 8859-5 fonts and support the Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian and Serbian scripts. In most cases it is desirable to have the X font server (xfs) and/or an X server installed to make the fonts available to X clients.

This package and xfonts-cronyx-isocyr-75dpi provide the same set of fonts, rendered at different resolutions; only one or the other is necessary, but both may be installed. xfonts-cronyx-isocyr-100dpi may be more suitable for large monitors and/or large screen resolutions (over 1024x768).

KWin (pronounced as one syllable "kwin") is the window manager for the KDE Plasma Desktop. It gives you complete control over your windows, making sure they're not in the way but aid you in your task. It paints the window decoration, the bar on top of every window with (configurable) buttons like close, maximize and minimize. It also handles placing of windows and switching between them.