Applets

Applets are GNOME applications which reside in a Panel. An applet's appearance typically reveals the state of the applet or other information. Applets often have buttons, sliders, entries, or other methods to allow you to control their behavior.

Some example applets are shown above(see Figure 9). At the very left is the Mixer Applet which allows you to change the volume level and mute the sound. Next is theSound Monitor Applet, which displays the current volume of sound being played and allows you to control various sound features. The third applet is the GTCD Applet, a CD player which has all its controls available in the applet and displays the track and time.The next applet is the Drive Mount Applet, used to mount and unmount drives with a single click of the mouse. This is followed by the Desk-Guide Applet which shows you your desktops and the applications which are running on them. The last applet shown is the Tasklist Applet which allows you to control certain aspects of each application or window which is open.

GNOME has many useful applets. Just right click on a Panel and add some applets to your Panel to find out which applets are available and which ones are best for you. Right click on each applet to see a menu listing various commands and operations the applet can do and to access the documentation for the applet.