The desktop project handles all desktop related issues of the Gentoo distribution, including science. This involves both researching the improvements needed for Gentoo's use as a desktop as managing all projects that handle desktop-related ebuilds.
| Developer | Nickname | Role |
| Donnie Berkholz | dberkholz | Lead |
All developers can be reached by e-mail using nickname@gentoo.org.
The desktop project has the following subprojects:
| Project | Lead | Description |
| accessibility | William Hubbs | The Gentoo Accessibility Project provides a way for Gentoo developers in various teams to coordinate efforts to make Gentoo more accessible to users who have disabilities. |
| artwork | Dawid Węgliński | The Gentoo Artwork Project manages Gentoo artwork stuff. This includes wallpapers, logos, themes, icons sets, etc. |
| gnome | Mart Raudsepp | The Gentoo Gnome Project aims to bring the current and complete GNOME Desktop Environment to Gentoo. |
| KDE | Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto | The KDE project manages the KDE and Qt ebuilds within Gentoo. |
| xfce | Christoph Mende | The Gentoo Xfce Project aims to bring the current and complete Xfce desktop environment to Gentoo. |
| research | Damien Krotkine | The research project researches how the desktop can be improved |
| desktop-wm | David Shakaryan | The WM project manages the wide variety of Window Managers in Portage. |
| X | Donnie Berkholz | The X subproject manages the X implementations and related packages in Portage. |
| Games | Mike Frysinger | The Gentoo Games Project manages the game categories (dev-games, games-*) in Portage. |
| video | Luca Barbato | The Video team strives to provide users with the best multimedia experience through providing encoding tools and media players. |
| desktop-util | Krzysiek Pawlik | The Desktop Utilities project manages a wide variety of small utilities and dockapps for the Gentoo Desktop. |
| sound | Tony Vroon | The sound team provides and maintains sound applications and drivers. |
| rox | Jim Ramsay | The Rox Desktop Project handles all rox-desktop issues of the Gentoo distribution. |
| lxde | Ben de Groot | The LXDE project handles all issues related to the LXDE desktop environment in Gentoo. |
| Qt | Ben de Groot | The Qt project manages the Qt ebuilds within Gentoo. |
If anyone wants to be lead, we can hold elections for a new lead. Discuss this further in either #gentoo-desktop or on the gentoo-desktop mailing list.
Any developers who consider themselves part of the desktop project are welcome to participate in the election, but they can't just be part of the project for the election. They need to create a subproject with accompanying Web page for their herd and link to it from the top-level desktop index. Any developers not listed as members on some project page in the desktop hierarchy cannot vote.