Standards Compliance

GNOME works closely with groups such as freedesktop.org. Standards support is a big plus for GNOME users- interoperability support improves the user experience by allowing GNOME, KDE, and other applications to work together more easily, and following open specifications helps ensure that user data is not trapped in proprietary formats.

Freedesktop.org specifications for which GNOME 2.2 has added support include: icon themes, recent files, thumbnail management, and the system tray spec. In addition, GNOME 2 supports CORBA, XML, Xdnd, EWMH, XEMBED, XSETTINGS, and XSMP.