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<sect2 id="diskusage-applet">
<title>Disk Usage Applet</title>
<para> <application>Disk Usage Applet</application>, shown in <xref
linkend="diskusage-applet-fig1">, provides a panel monitor for the
amount of space in use and available on your disk drives. To add
this applet to the panel, right-click on the panel and choose
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Panel</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Add to panel</guisubmenu>
<guisubmenu>Applet</guisubmenu>
<guisubmenu>Monitors</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Disk Usage</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</para>
<figure id="diskusage-applet-fig1">
<title>Disk Usage Applet</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Disk Usages Applet</screeninfo>
<graphic format="png" fileref="figures/diskusage-applet" srccredit="John
Fleck">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
<!-- ============= Usage ================================ -->
<sect3 id="diskusage-applet-usage">
<title> Usage</title>
<para><application>Disk Usage Applet</application> provides
real-time monitoring of the available space on your disk
drives.</para>
<para>It provides three pieces of information. The colored pie
graphically represents how much space is used and how much is
available. <guilabel>MP:</guilabel> indicates the mount point of
the disk it is currently monitoring. <guilabel>av:</guilabel>
indicates the amount of space available on the selected drive, in
kilobytes. Clicking on the applet changes the drive being
monitored. Doing so repeatedly cycles through all available drives.</para>
<para>
Right-clicking on the applet brings up a menu containing the
following items:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<guimenuitem>File system</guimenuitem> — allows you
to change the file system <application>Disk Usage
Applet</application> monitors.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>— opens the
<link linkend="diskusage-applet-prefs">
<guilabel>Properties</guilabel>
</link> dialog
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guimenuitem>Update</guimenuitem> — this can be used
to force the applet to update the filesystem list the applet
uses.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guimenuitem>Help</guimenuitem> —
displays this document.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guimenuitem>About…</guimenuitem> —
shows basic information about <application>Disk Usage
Applet</application>, including the applet's version and the
author's name.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect3>
<!-- ============= Customization ============================= -->
<sect3 id="diskusage-applet-prefs">
<title>Customization</title>
<para>
You can customize <application>Disk Usage Applet</application> by
right-clicking on it and choosing
<guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>. This will launch the
<interface>Properties…</interface> dialog, which allows you to
change various settings.
</para>
<figure id="diskusage-applet-fig2">
<title>Preferences dialog</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Preferences dialog</screeninfo>
<graphic format="png" fileref="figures/diskusage-applet-prefs"
srccredit="John Fleck">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
<para>
The properties are:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Colors</guilabel> — To change the colors
displayed in the applet, click on the <guibutton>colored
buttons</guibutton> next to <guilabel>Used Diskspace</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Free Diskspace</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Textcolor</guilabel> and
<guilabel>Backgroundcolor</guilabel>. A color wheel dialog will
pop up offering you color options to make changes. When
finished, click on the <guibutton>OK</guibutton> button on the
color options window.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Size</guilabel> — <guilabel>Applet
Size</guilabel> and can be used to change the height (on a
horizontal panel) or width (on a vertical panel) of the applet.</para>
<para>By checking the <guilabel>Automatically pick best applet
size</guilabel> check box, you can force <application>Disk Usage
Applet</application> to automatically choose the appropriate size
for your panel.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Fonts</guilabel> — Clicking on the bar in this
window opens a dialog box allowing you to change the font
displayed in the applet.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guilabel>Update Frequency</guilabel> — changes
the amount of time, in seconds, between updates of
<application>Disk Usage Applet</application>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
</para>
<para> After you have made all the choices you want, click on
<guibutton>OK</guibutton> to make the changes and close the
<interface>Properties</interface> dialog. To cancel the changes
and return to previous values, click on
<guibutton>Cancel</guibutton> button.
</para>
</sect3>
<!-- ============= Authors ================================ -->
<sect3 id="diskusage-authors">
<title>Authors</title>
<para>
<application>Disk Usage Applet</application> was written by Dave Finton
<email>dfinton@d.umn.edu</email>, Bruno Widmann
<email>bwidmann@tks.fh-sbg.ac.at</email> and Martin Baulig
<email>martin@home-of-linux.org</email>. Please send all comments,
suggestions, and bug reports to the <ulink
url="http://bugs.gnome.org" type="http">GNOME bug tracking
database</ulink>. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be
found <ulink url="http://bugs.gnome.org/Reporting.html" type="http">
on-line</ulink>. If you are using
GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use <application>Bug Report
Tool</application> (<command>bug-buddy</command>), available in the
<guisubmenu>Utilities</guisubmenu> submenu of <guimenu>Main
Menu</guimenu>, for submitting bug reports.
</para>
<para>
This manual was written by John Fleck
(<email>jfleck@inkstain.net</email>). Please send all comments and
suggestions regarding this manual to the <ulink type="http"
url="http://www.gnome.org/gdp">GNOME Documentation Project</ulink>
by sending an email to <email>docs@gnome.org</email>. You can also
submit comments online by using the <ulink type="http"
url="http://www.gnome.org/gdp/doctable/">GNOME Documentation Status
Table</ulink>.
</para>
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</para>
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</sect3>
<!-- ============= Application License ============================= -->
<!--
<sect3 id="license">
<title>License</title>
<para>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the <citetitle>GNU General Public
License</citetitle> as published by the Free Software Foundation;
either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
</para>
<para>
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
<citetitle>GNU General Public License</citetitle> for more details.
</para>
<para>
A copy of the <citetitle>GNU General Public License</citetitle> is
included as an appendix to the <citetitle>GNOME Users
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<citetitle>GNU General Public License</citetitle> from the Free
Software Foundation by visiting <ulink type="http"
url="http://www.fsf.org">their Web site</ulink> or by writing to
<address>
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
<street>59 Temple Place</street> - Suite 330
<city>Boston</city>, <state>MA</state> <postcode>02111-1307</postcode>
<country>USA</country>
</address>
</para>
</sect3>
-->
</sect2>
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