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>   The simplest way to think about a drawer 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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><B
>Figure 10. An open Drawer</B
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>   Once you have placed a drawer on a <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 a <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Panel</SPAN
>, right clicking on the end
   of the drawer with the arrow to open the <A
HREF="mainmenu.html#GLOBALMENU"
><SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Global Menu</SPAN
></A
>.
   You can close the drawer by clicking on its icon again or by
   clicking on the arrow at its end.
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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 color or image of the
   drawer. Just right click on the drawer and select
   <B
CLASS="GUIMENUITEM"
>Properties...</B
> to open the
   <SPAN
CLASS="INTERFACE"
>Drawer Properties</SPAN
> dialog. Then select the
   <TT
CLASS="GUILABEL"
><B
>Background</B
></TT
> tab to bring up the
   <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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