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+<glossary id="glossary-1">
+<title>Glossary</title>
+<highlights><para></para>
+</highlights>
+<glossentry id="glossary-6"><glossterm>applet</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>An applet is a small, interactive application that resides
+within a panel, for example the <application>CD Player</application>. Each
+applet has a simple user interface that you can operate with the mouse or
+keyboard. </para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-9"><glossterm>desktop background object</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>An icon on your desktop background that you can use to open
+your files, folders, and applications. You can use desktop background objects
+to provide convenient access to files, folders, and applications that you
+use frequently.</para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-8"><glossterm>drawer</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A drawer is a sliding extension to a panel that you can open
+or close from a drawer icon. </para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-10"><glossterm>GNOME-compliant application</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>An application that uses the standard GNOME programming libraries
+is called a GNOME-compliant application. For example, <application>Nautilus
+</application> and <application>gedit</application> are GNOME-compliant applications.
+</para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-18"><glossterm>inode</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A data structure that contains information about individual
+files in UNIX file systems. Each file has one inode. An inode contains the
+node, type, owner, and location of a file. </para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-3"><glossterm>launcher</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A launcher starts a particular application, executes a command,
+or opens a file. A launcher can reside in a panel or in a menu.</para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-14"><glossterm>layer</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>Your desktop is structured as a sequence of layers. Each user
+interface item, such as a window or a panel, is a member of a layer. Each
+layer has a layer number. A layer number is an integer that represents the
+position of a layer in the stacking order.</para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-11"><glossterm>menubar</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A menubar is a bar at the top of an application window that
+contains the menus for the application. </para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-4"><glossterm>pane</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A pane is a subdivision of a window. For example, the <application>
+Nautilus</application> window contains a side pane and a view pane. </para>
+</glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-2"><glossterm>preference tool</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A dedicated software tool that controls a particular part
+of the behavior of the desktop.</para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-5"><glossterm>shortcut key</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A shortcut key is a series of one or more keystrokes or mouse
+clicks that provides a quick way to perform an action. </para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-15"><glossterm>stacking order</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>The stacking order is the order in which windows are stacked
+on top of each other on your screen. </para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-13"><glossterm>statusbar</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A statusbar is a bar at the bottom of a window that provides
+information about the current state of what you are viewing in the window. 
+</para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-12"><glossterm>toolbar</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A toolbar is a bar that contains buttons for the most commonly-used
+commands in an application. Typically, a toolbar appears under a menubar.
+</para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-16"><glossterm>view</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A <application>Nautilus</application> component that enables
+you to display a folder in a particular way. For example, <application>Nautilus
+</application> contains an icon view which enables you to display the contents
+of a folder as icons. <application>Nautilus</application> also contains a
+list view which enables you to display the contents of a folder as a list. 
+</para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-17"><glossterm>viewer component</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A <application>Nautilus</application> component that enables
+you to display a particular type of file in the view pane. A viewer component
+might add menu items that are relevant to the file type to the Nautilus menus.
+A viewer component might also enable you to use the <application>Nautilus
+</application> zoom buttons to change the size of the item in the view pane.
+</para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+<glossentry id="glossary-7"><glossterm>workspace</glossterm>
+<glossdef><para>A workspace is a discrete area on the desktop in which you
+can work. </para></glossdef>
+</glossentry>
+</glossary>
+