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diff --git a/gnome2-user-guide/C/gosdeskback.xml b/gnome2-user-guide/C/gosdeskback.xml index a805b45..d37dc25 100644 --- a/gnome2-user-guide/C/gosdeskback.xml +++ b/gnome2-user-guide/C/gosdeskback.xml @@ -1,14 +1,9 @@ -<!-- converted from Solbook 2.2 SGML to Docbook 4.2 XML -# Generator: s2d v1.4 2002-09-19 -# Jay Han (jhan@acm.org)/Lightsaber Computing (http://www.lightsaber.com) ---> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <chapter id="gosdeskback-1"> <title>Using the Desktop Background</title> <highlights> - <para>By default, the <application>Nautilus</application> file -manager manages your desktop background. If you do not use <application>Nautilus</application> to manage your desktop background, ignore this chapter. This -chapter describes how to use the <application>Nautilus</application> desktop -background.</para> + <para>The <application>Nautilus</application> file manager manages +your desktop background. This chapter describes how to use the <application>Nautilus</application> desktop background.</para> </highlights> <sect1 id="gosdeskback-21"> <title>Introduction to the Desktop Background</title> @@ -151,12 +146,6 @@ If the default objects do not appear on your desktop background, one of the following might be true:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> - <para>Your <application>Nautilus</application> preferences are set -so that <application>Nautilus</application> does not manage your desktop background. -To restart the desktop background, you must set your <application>Nautilus</application> preferences so that <application>Nautilus</application> manages -the desktop background.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> <para>You have inadvertently killed a desktop background process. To restart the desktop background, you must set your <application>Nautilus</application> preferences so that <application>Nautilus</application> manages the desktop background.</para> @@ -167,25 +156,6 @@ To restart the desktop background, you must set up <application>Nautilus</applic so that <application>Nautilus</application> manages the desktop background.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> - <para>To set your preferences so that <application>Nautilus</application> -manages the desktop background perform the following steps:</para> - <orderedlist> - <listitem> - <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenuitem>Home Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A <application>Nautilus</application> window is displayed. </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A <guilabel>Preferences</guilabel> -dialog is displayed. Choose <guilabel>Desktop & Trash</guilabel> from -the <guilabel>Preferences</guilabel> dialog.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Select the <guilabel>Use Nautilus to draw the desktop</guilabel> -option.</para> - </listitem> - <listitem> - <para>Click <guibutton>Close</guibutton> to close the dialog.</para> - </listitem> - </orderedlist> <para>To set up <application>Nautilus</application> so that <application>Nautilus</application> manages the desktop background perform the following steps:</para> <orderedlist> @@ -350,9 +320,9 @@ drag over the areas that you want to select. </para> <para>To open an object from the desktop background, double-click on the object. Alternatively, right-click on the object, then choose <guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem>. When you open -on an object, the default action for the object executes. For example, if -the object is a text file, the text file opens in a <application>Nautilus</application> window. The default actions for file types are specified in -the <application>File Types and Programs</application> preference tool.</para> +an object, the default action for the object executes. For example, if the +object is a text file, the text file opens in a <application>Nautilus</application> +window. The default actions for file types are specified in the <application>File Types and Programs</application> preference tool.</para> <para>To execute an action other than the default action for an object, right-click on the object, then choose <guimenuitem>Open With</guimenuitem>. Choose an action from the <guisubmenu>Open With</guisubmenu> submenu. </para> @@ -365,8 +335,8 @@ Programs</application> preference tool:</para> the <guilabel>Edit file type</guilabel> dialog</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para><guilabel>Viewer Component</guilabel> drop-down list box in -the <guilabel>Edit file type</guilabel> dialog</para> + <para><guilabel>Viewer Ccomponent</guilabel> drop-down list box +in the <guilabel>Edit file type</guilabel> dialog</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>You can set your preferences in a <application>Nautilus</application> @@ -624,8 +594,7 @@ from</secondary> an object from the desktop background, the object is not moved to <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>, but is immediately deleted from the desktop background. The <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem> menu item is only available if you select the <guilabel>Include a Delete command that bypasses Trash</guilabel> option -in the <application>Nautilus</application> <guilabel>Preferences</guilabel> -dialog. </para> +in the <application>Nautilus</application> <guilabel>File Management Preferences</guilabel> dialog. </para> <para>To delete an object from the desktop background right-click on the object, then choose <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem>. </para> </sect2> @@ -793,24 +762,24 @@ in your desktop background directory.</para> </entry> </row> <row> - <entry colname="colspec0"> + <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top"> <para> <guimenuitem>New Launcher</guimenuitem> </para> </entry> - <entry colname="colspec1"> - <para>Creates a launcher on your desktop background. -For more information, see <xref linkend="gosdeskback-3"/>.</para> + <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top"> + <para>Creates a launcher on your desktop background. For more information, see <xref linkend="gosdeskback-3"/>.</para> </entry> </row> <row> - <entry colname="colspec0"> + <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top"> <para> <guisubmenu>Scripts</guisubmenu> </para> </entry> - <entry colname="colspec1"> - <para>Opens a submenu of scripts that you can run.</para> + <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top"> + <para>Opens a submenu of scripts that +you can run.</para> </entry> </row> <row> @@ -825,36 +794,37 @@ Name</guimenuitem> </entry> </row> <row> - <entry colname="colspec0"> + <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top"> <para> <guimenuitem>Cut Files</guimenuitem> </para> </entry> - <entry colname="colspec1"> - <para>Deletes the selected file or files from the -folder or desktop background, and places the file or files in buffer.</para> + <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top"> + <para>Deletes the selected file or +files from the folder or desktop background, and places the file or files +in buffer.</para> </entry> </row> <row> - <entry colname="colspec0"> + <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top"> <para> <guimenuitem>Copy Files</guimenuitem> </para> </entry> - <entry colname="colspec1"> - <para>Copies the selected file or files from the -folder or desktop background, and places the file or files in buffer.</para> + <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top"> + <para>Copies the selected file or files from the folder or desktop background, and +places the file or files in buffer.</para> </entry> </row> <row> - <entry colname="colspec0"> + <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top"> <para> <guimenuitem>Paste Files</guimenuitem> </para> </entry> - <entry colname="colspec1"> - <para>Puts the file or files in the buffer into -the selected folder or the desktop background.</para> + <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top"> + <para>Puts the file or files in the buffer into the selected folder or the desktop +background.</para> </entry> </row> <row> @@ -871,25 +841,27 @@ CD-ROMs, and other removable media.</para> <row> <entry colname="colspec0"> <para> - <guimenuitem>Change Desktop Background</guimenuitem> + <guimenuitem>Use Default Background </guimenuitem> </para> </entry> <entry colname="colspec1"> - <para>Starts the <application>Background</application> preference tool to enable you to change the desktop -background.</para> + <para>Resets the desktop +background to the last pattern that you chose from the <guilabel>Backgrounds +and Emblems</guilabel> dialog. You can access the <guilabel>Backgrounds and +Emblems</guilabel> dialog from <application>Nautilus</application> windows.</para> +<!--<para><emphasis>Comment:</emphasis> It does not reset the last color that you chose from the <guilabel>Backgrounds and Emblems</guilabel> dialog.</para>--> </entry> </row> <row> - <entry valign="top"> + <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top"> <para> - <guimenuitem>Use Default Background </guimenuitem> + <guimenuitem>Change Desktop +Background</guimenuitem> </para> </entry> - <entry valign="top"> - <para>Resets the desktop background to the last pattern -that you chose from the <guilabel>Backgrounds and Emblems</guilabel> dialog. -You can access the <guilabel>Backgrounds and Emblems</guilabel> dialog from <application>Nautilus</application> windows.</para> -<!--<para><emphasis>Comment:</emphasis> It does not reset the last color that you chose from the <guilabel>Backgrounds and Emblems</guilabel> dialog.</para>--> + <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top"> + <para>Starts the <application>Background</application> preference tool to enable +you to change the desktop background.</para> </entry> </row> </tbody> @@ -957,5 +929,3 @@ the color to the desktop background.</para> </itemizedlist> </sect1> </chapter> - - |