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The User Interface Options allows you to change the appearance
of applications that are GNOME-compliant. You may recognize these
applications as ones that are pre-installed with GNOME or ones that say
they are built with GTK(the GIMP Toolkit).
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>Application Defaults</A
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The Application Defaults capplet allow you to change certain
user interface aspects of your GNOME compliant applications.
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>IMPORTANT: </B
> Although this capplet gives you great control over the look
and feel of your applications you should consider these tools
for advanced use only.
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> Can detach and move menubars - By default menubars in GNOME
applications may be dragged from their usual location and
placed anywhere within the application or desktop. If you do
not wish to use this feature you may turn it off.
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> Menus have relieved borders - By default menubars have
relieved borders. If you do not like this look you may turn
this feature off.
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> Submenus can be torn off - This allows the submenus to have the
perforated line which allows you to "tear" them off an have them as a
small movable window.
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> Menu items have icons - Some menu items in applications will
have icons. If you wish not to see these icons in
applications that use them you may turn off this feature.
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> Statusbar in interactive when possible - Some applications
can have the status bar at the bottom become separated into
its own window. If you would like to have those applications
separate the status bar into another window you may turn on
this option.
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> Statusbar progress meter on right - Some applications have
progress meters in their statusbars. By default these
progress meters are on the right side of the statusbar. If
you wish them to be on the left you may turn off this feature.
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> Can detach and move toolbars - By default toolbars in GNOME
applications may be dragged from their usual location and
placed anywhere within the application or desktop. If you do
not wish to use this feature, you may turn it off.
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> Toolbars have relieved border - By default toolbars have
relieved borders. If you do not like this look you may turn
this feature off.
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> Toolbar buttons have relieved border - By default toolbar
buttons do not have relieved borders in their natural
state. They do, however, change when the mouse is over
them. If you wish them to be relieved at all times you may
turn on this feature.
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> Toolbars have line separators - By default toolbar buttons
have small line separators between them. If you so not wish
to have the line separators you may turn this feature off.
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> Toolbars have text labels - By default toolbar buttons have
images and text to identify them. If you are familiar with
the buttons and do not need the text you may turn on this feature.
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>Figure 17-14. Applications Defaults Capplet</B
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>Dialogs</A
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The Dialogs Capplet will allow you to change the default settings for
dialog boxes in GNOME compliant applications. A dialog box is a window
that is launched by an application to help perform a task needed by that
application. An example of a dialog box is a Print dialog which appears
when you press a print button. The dialog allows you to set print options
and start the print process. The Dialogs capplet will allow you to change
the following options:
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>Dialog buttons - Choose to use the default buttons, buttons more
spread out, put buttons on the edges, put the buttons on the left with
left-justify, and put buttons on the right with right-justify.
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> Dialog buttons have icons - Some dialog buttons (for example "OK") can
have icons on them. By default the applications which provide this have
the icons turned on. If you wish not to see them you may turn off this
feature.
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> Use statusbar instead of dialog when possible - You may tell applications
to use the statusbar instead of a dialog if the application will allow
it. This will only work with dialogs that provide information not one
that require some interaction on your part.
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> Dialog position - This will let you choose how the dialogs appear when
launched. You can let the window manager decide for you (or how you have
defined it in the window manager configuration), center the dialogs on
the screen, or drop them where the mouse pointer is when they are
launched.
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> Dialog hints - This will let you change the behavior of the dialog hints
which are the tooltips that appear when you move your mouse button over a
button or part of the dialog. You may choose to have hints handled like
other windows, or let the window manager decide how to display them.
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> Place dialogs over application window when possible - You may choose to
place dialog over the applications when possible which will help you keep
your windows organized on your screen If you are familiar with other
operating systems you may wish to keep this selected as this is how most
operating systems handle dialogs.
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> Although this capplet gives you great control over the look
and feel of your applications you should consider these tools
for advanced use only.
</P
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>Figure 17-15. Dialog Capplet</B
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>MDI</A
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The MDI capplet allows you to change the MDI mode for GNOME applications.
MDI stands for Multiple Document Interface and refers to the how more than
one document is displayed in GNOME applications.
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> Although this capplet gives you great control over the look and feel of
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> The default style in GNOME-compliant applications for MDI is usually tabs
or "notebooks" If you do not like the tab look you may change it here.
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> Deafault MDI Mode - In addition to Notebook, you will find, Toplevel and
Modal. Notebook is the default tab look, Toplevel displays only the active
document on the top view until it is closed and Modal has only one
toplevel which can contain any of the documents at any one time, however
only one can be displayed. If you have ever used
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> MDI notebook tab position - If you choose to use the Notebook style you
may then decide where you want the tabs to appear in your
applications. You may have them at the top, left, right, or bottom of your
application. Keep in mind that these choices will affect applications that
are GNOME compliant.
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>Figure 17-16. MDI Capplet</B
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