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>User Interface</A
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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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NAME="GCCAPPDEFAULTS"
>Application</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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>	    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.
	    </P
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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.
	    </P
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>	      Statusbar is 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.
	    </P
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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.
	    </P
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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 do not wish
	      to have the line separators you may turn this feature off.
	    </P
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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.
	    </P
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>Figure 16. 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:
	</P
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>	  <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Dialog buttons</B
></TT
> - 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.
	</P
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>	  <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Dialog buttons have icons</B
></TT
> - Some
	  dialog buttons (for example <B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>OK</B
>) 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.
	</P
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>	  <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Use statusbar instead of dialog when
	  possible</B
></TT
> - 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.
	</P
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>	  <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Dialog position</B
></TT
> - 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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>	  <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Dialog hints</B
></TT
> - 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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>	  <TT
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><B
>Place dialogs over application window when
	  possible</B
></TT
> - 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. Dialog Capplet</B
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NAME="GCCMDI"
>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 way 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.
	</P
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>	  <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Default MDI Mode</B
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> - 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
	  <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Emacs</TT
> Modal is very similar to the way
	  <TT
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>Emacs</TT
> handles buffers.
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>	  <TT
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><B
>MDI notebook tab position</B
></TT
> - 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 only applications that
	  are GNOME compliant.
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>Figure 18. MDI Capplet</B
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