<glossary id="glossary-1">
  <title>Glossary</title>
  <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-20">
    <glossterm>DNS name</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A unique alphabetic identifier for a computer on a network.</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-23">
    <glossterm>format</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>To format media is to prepare the media for use with a particular
file system. When you format media, you overwrite any existing information
on the media. </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-26">
    <glossterm>hot key</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Hot keys are keyboard shortcuts that start 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-21">
    <glossterm>IP address</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A unique numeric identifier for a computer on a network.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>
  <glossentry id="glossary-25">
    <glossterm>keyboard shortcut</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A <firstterm>keyboard shortcut</firstterm> is a key or combination
of keys that provides an alternative to standard ways of performing an action. </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-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-27">
    <glossterm>MIME type</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) type identifies
the format of a file. The MIME type enables applications to read the file.
For example, an email application can use the <literal>image/png</literal>
MIME type to detect that a Portable Networks Graphic (PNG) file is attached
to an email.</para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>
  <glossentry id="glossary-24">
    <glossterm>mount</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>To <firstterm>mount</firstterm> is to make a file system available
for access. When you mount a file system, the file system is attached as a
subdirectory to your file system. </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 keys</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>Shortcut keys are keystrokes that provide a quick way to perform
an action. </para>
    </glossdef>
  </glossentry>
  <glossentry id="glossary-22">
    <glossterm>slice</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A partition of a disk. You can create slices on your Zip and
Jaz media. An object for each slice appears on the desktop background.</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-28">
    <glossterm>symbolic link</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A special type of file that points to another file or folder.
When you perform an action on a symbolic link, the action is performed on
the file or folder to which the symbolic link points. </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-19">
    <glossterm>Uniform Resource Locator</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
      <para>A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the address of a particular
location on the Web.</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>
