Top 5 C++ desktop-environment Projects

serenity

240 28,456 10.0 C++

The Serenity Operating System 🐞

Project mention: Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-09

SerenityOS replicates that look and feel. It is also implemented in a dialect of C++ that adheres to some of the good parts of C++98: https://serenityos.org
BootShellCredentialProvider

1 780 0.0 C++

Windows 10 Credential Provider intended to simplify the process of logging directly into alternative shells to Windows Explorer.
WorkOS

workos.com
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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
polkit-dumb-agent

5 100 0.0 C++

a polkit agent in 145 lines of code, because polkit is dumb and none of the other agents worked
powerkit

3 87 9.0 C++

Desktop Independent Power Manager
search-open

1 1 0.0 C++

A tiny utility to quickly search for an application and open it.
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com
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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-09.