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Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more.

Papi, the Python Accessibility Programming Interface, is a Python wrapper around the GNOME ATK toolkit. It allows a developer to make python objects and applications easily accessibility aware without the need to install PyGTK and the GNOME accessibility components. Instead it only depends on ATK and - on the developers behalf - the ATK/AT-SPI bridge shipped with AT-SPI.

Speech Dispatcher is a device independent layer for speech synthesis, developed with the goal of making the usage of speech synthesis easier for application programmers. It takes care of most of the tasks necessary to solve in speech enabled applications. What is a very high level GUI library to graphics, Speech Dispatcher is to speech synthesis.

grzip is a high-performance file compressor based on Burrows-Wheeler Transform, Schindler Transform, Move-To-Front, and Weighted Frequency Counting. It uses the Block-Sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm, which has received considerable attention in recent years for both its simplicity and effectiveness. This implementation has a compression rate of 2.234 bps on the Calgary Corpus (14 files) without preprocessing filters.

This is a simple command line implementation of the LZMA compression algorithm from the LZMA SDK. It uses a raw LZMA format instead of the xz or 7z container formats, and produces compression ratios that are usually about 25-30% better than bzip2, and decompression speeds that are about twice as fast. The disadvantages are higher CPU and RAM requirements for compression.

Archive::Any::Lite is a fork of Archive::Any. The main difference is this works properly even when you fork(), and may require less memory to extract a tarball. On the other hand, this isn't pluggable (this only supports file formats used in the CPAN toolchains), and this doesn't check mime types (at least as of this writing).

Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer.

Bz2file is a Python library for reading and writing bzip2-compressed files. It contains a drop-in replacement for the file interface in the standard library's bz2 module, including features from the latest development version of CPython that are not available in older releases.

Convert .rpm files to cpio format. Why does the world need another rpm2cpio? because the existing one won't build unless you have half a ton of things that aren't really required for it, since it uses the same library used to extract RPM's. This version is just a tiny wrapper around bsdtar.

XMill is a new tool for compressing XML data efficiently. It is based on a regrouping strategy that leverages the effect of highly-efficient compression techniques in compressors such as gzip. XMill groups XML text strings with respect to their meaning and exploits similarities between those text strings for compression. Hence, XMill typically achieves much better compression rates than conventional compressors such as gzip.