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<sect2 id="odometer">
<title>Odometer Applet</title>
<para>
The GNOME panel <application>Odometer</application> applet, shown in <xref
linkend="odometer-applet-fig"> is an applet which tracks and measures the
movements of your mouse pointer across the desktop. It is part of the
gnome-applets package. To add this
applet to a <interface>Panel</interface>,
right-click on the <interface>Panel</interface> and choose
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Panel</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Add to panel</guisubmenu>
<guisubmenu>Applet</guisubmenu>
<guisubmenu>Amusements</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Odometer</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>.
</para>
<figure id="odometer-applet-fig">
<title>Odometer Applet</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Odometer Applet</screeninfo>
<graphic format="png" fileref="figures/odometer_applet"
srccredit="acscherp">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
<!-- ============= Usage ================================ -->
<sect3 id="odometer-usage">
<title>Usage</title>
<para>
Once it is present, you don't need to do anything to the odometer.
It just sits quietly in your panel and keeps track of all your mouse movements.
In addition, moving the mouse pointer over the odometer produces
a <guilabel>tooltip</guilabel> telling you whether the distance
is expressed in metric units (centimeters, meters, kilometers)
of in feet (inches, feet, miles).
The upper value indicates your total trip distance,
and the lower value is the partial trip distance, that
can be resetted at will.
</para>
<para>
Right-clicking on the applet brings up a menu containing the
following items:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<guimenuitem>Reset</guimenuitem> —
This resets the odometer applet to zero again.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guimenuitem>Properties…</guimenuitem> —
opens the <link linkend="odometer-prefs">
<guilabel>Properties</guilabel></link> dialog.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guimenuitem>Help</guimenuitem> —
displays this document.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<guimenuitem>About…</guimenuitem> —
shows basic information about <application>odometer
Applet</application>, including the applet's version and the
author's name.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</sect3>
<!-- ============= Customization ============================= -->
<sect3 id="odometer-prefs">
<title>Customization</title>
<para>
You can customize <application>odometer</application>
applet by right-clicking on it and choosing
<guimenuitem>Properties…</guimenuitem>. This will open the
<interface>Properties</interface> dialog(shown in <xref
linkend="odometer-settings-fig">), which allows you to
change various settings.
</para>
<para>
The <interface>properties dialog box</interface> (which calls
itself "Odometer setting" rather than properties) is divided into
two sections, one for general options, and one for themes.
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>General</term>
<listitem>
<figure id="odometer-settings-fig">
<title>Properties dialog (general preferences tab)</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>General preferences tab</screeninfo>
<graphic format="png" fileref="figures/odometer_settings"
srccredit="accscherp">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
<para>
The <guilabel>general preferences tab</guilabel>, shown in <xref
linkend="odometer-settings-fig">, has four options:
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Use metric</term>
<listitem>
<para>
If the <guibutton>use metric checkbox</guibutton> is checked,
mouse pointer distance travelled is shown in meters
(centimeters, meters, and kilometers) . If it
is not checked, the distance travelled is shown in feet
(inches, feet and miles). By
moving the pointer over the odometer you can produce a
<guilabel>tooltip</guilabel> which shows you whether it is
currently displaying meters or feet.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>auto_reset</term>
<listitem>
<para>
If the <guibutton>auto_reset checkbox</guibutton> is checked,
the odometer numbers return to zero each time it's
started or each time the session is started. This allows
you to display your daily mouse trip distance if you
used to restart you gnome session every morning.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>enabled</term>
<listitem>
<para>
If the <guibutton>enabled checkbox</guibutton> is checked, then
the odometer will keep counting how far you have moved your
pointer. If not, it will return the numbers to zero until you
re-enable it.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>digits number</term>
<listitem>
<para>
The <guibutton>digits number field</guibutton> determines how
many digits the odometer will display. The default is four, and
the range is from 1 to 10.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Theme</term>
<listitem>
<figure id="odometer-themes-fig">
<title>Properties dialog (theme preferences tab)</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Theme preferences tab</screeninfo>
<graphic format="png" fileref="figures/odometer_themes"
srccredit="accscherp">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
<para>
The <guilabel>theme preferences tab</guilabel>, shown in <xref
linkend="odometer-themes-fig">, has a variety of
themes you can choose from. They are found by default in
<filename>$PREFIX/odometer/</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
<para>
After you have made all the changes you want, click on
<guibutton>OK</guibutton> to apply the changes and close the
<interface>Properties</interface> dialog. To cancel the changes
and return to previous values, click the
<guibutton>Close</guibutton> button.
</para>
</sect3>
<!-- ============= Bugs ================================== -->
<!-- This section should describe known bugs and limitations of
the program if there are any - please be frank and list all
problems you know of -->
<sect3 id="odometer-bugs">
<title>Known Bugs and Limitations</title>
<para>
This applet has no known bugs.
</para>
</sect3>
<!-- ============= Authors ================================ -->
<sect3 id="odometer-authors">
<title>Authors</title>
<para>
The <application>odometer applet</application> was written by
Fabrice Bellet (<email>Fabrice.Bellet@creatis.insa-lyon.fr</email>),
and based on the <application>Mouspedometa</application> for KDE by
Armen Nakashian, which in turn was based on the
Motif-based <application>Xodometer</application> by Mark H. Granoff.
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 Arjan Scherpenisse
(<email>acscherp@wins.uva.nl</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>
<!-- For translations: uncomment this:
<para>
Latin translation was done by ME
(<email>MYNAME@MYADDRESS</email>). Please send all comments and
suggestions regarding this translation to SOMEWHERE.
</para>
-->
</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
Guide</citetitle>. You may also obtain a copy of the
<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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