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>      The simplest way of thinking about a <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Drawer</SPAN
> is that
      it is a container to store things.  Typically one may use a Drawer to hold
      multiple launchers which are related to each other in some way, such as
      the various applications in GNOME Office. The Drawers in the GNOME
      <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Panel</SPAN
> take this one step further by making a Drawer
      an actual extension of the <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Panel</SPAN
> itself.  Thus, a
      Drawer is a collapsible branch of an existing
      <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Panel</SPAN
>.  It can contain anything that a
      <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Panel</SPAN
> can, including launchers, applets, and other
      Drawers.
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>Figure 10. An open Drawer</B
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>      Once you have placed a Drawer on the <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Panel</SPAN
>, you may
      click on it to "open" the Drawer, revealing its contents.  You may then
      add items to the Drawer in the same way you would add items to the panel,
      right clicking on the end of the drawer with the arrow.  You can close the
      Drawer by clicking on its icon again or by clicking on the arrow at its
      end.
  </P
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>      You can configure a Drawer's properties by right clicking on the Drawer's
      icon and selecting <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Properties</B
>. This brings up
      the <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Drawer Properties</SPAN
> dialog. Here you can select
      the icon used for the drawer by clicking on the icon. A tooltip may be
      entered by typing in the <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Tooltip/Name</B
></TT
> entry. This
      tooltip will be displayed whenever the mouse is moved over the Drawer to
      remind you what is inside.  One may also select whether the
      <B
CLASS="GUIBUTTON"
>hide button</B
> and arrow are displayed at the end of
      the drawer.
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>Figure 11. Drawer Properties Dialog</B
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>      You may also control the background of the Drawer. Just right click on the
      Drawer and select the <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Background</B
></TT
> tab to bring up the
      standard <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Panel Background Dialog</SPAN
> (see <A
HREF="panelproperties.html#PANELBACKTAB"
>the section called <I
>Background Tab</I
></A
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