The gnome-desktop set of libraries provides various utility functions
 that are used in multiple components of the GNOME desktop, but do not
 have a sufficiently stable API to be included in core libraries such
 as GLib and GTK.
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 This library provides miscellaneous non-GUI utilities, including
 sandboxed image thumbnailing, localization-related utilities, idle time
 monitoring, a simplified interface to the udev hardware database,
 putting processes into systemd scopes, user-facing time representation
 and keyboard layout information.