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Playing with the GNOME Panel
The GNOME Panel is the menu bar along the bottom of the desktop. The GNOME Panel, similar to the taskbar in Windows, provides a location to place common menus and applets for easy starting or viewing. The GNOME Panel also gives you a view of the virtual desktop and enables you to keep track of minimized windows.By default, Red Hat Linux places icons on the GNOME Panel for accessing the GNOME Menu, Mozilla, Evolution, OpenOffice (Writer, Impress, and Calc), and the GNOME Workspace Switcher. You can start any of these programs or use the switcher by clicking its icon.The most important element on the GNOME Panel is the GNOME Menu button, on the far left side, which you use to access all the standard GNOME applications and configuration tools. The GNOME Menu button, which looks amazingly similar to a red hat, is in the lower-left corner of the screen. You can choose from any of the menus that are displayed when you click the GNOME Menu button. For example, the System Settings and System Tools menus contain many of the Red Hat utilities you can use to administer your Red Hat Linux computer. The Sound & Video menu provides access to a CD player, and the Graphics menu provides access to graphical applications. You get the idea.You can use the Add to Panel submenu to modify the configuration and behavior of the GNOME Panel. For example, if you right-click any unused portion of the GNOME Panel and choose Add to PanelTipOne other interesting function of the GNOME Panel menu is the Add New Launcher function. Click any unused section of the GNOME Panel and choose Add to PanelTipGNOME provides a file searching utility, named Search Tool. Click the GNOME Menu button and choose Search for Files, and the Search Tool opens. Enter the name of a file you want to find and click the Find button. Click the Advanced tab and you can conduct a more finely tuned file search.Give it a try. For example, if you frequently use MPlayer to listen to Internet audio streams (described in Chapter 12), you can add an applet for it to your Panel so that you can easily launch MPlayer on a whim. Open the Create Launcher Applet window again and add the name, the generic name, any comments, and the command (gmplayer) to launch the program. If you click the No Icon button, you see a few pages of standard icons you can use to distinguish your new applet from others on the GNOME Panel; in this case, we chose a generic apple as our icon mascot. Figure 9-3 shows the finished applet launcher window.
Figure 9-3: The MPlayer icon is born.
After you finish editing the Create Launcher Applet window, click OK. The icon is added to your Panel, as shown in Figure 9-4. You can create a launcher for any application on your Red Hat Linux computer in the same way.
Figure 9-4: The MPlayer launcher applet icon on the GNOME Panel.
