Applets keep fallin on my headApplets are miniprograms (Make my own web site)
Applets keep fallin on my headApplets are miniprograms that do all sorts of things. An applet may displaythe time, show system status, or even offer a little frivolous fun. All kinds ofapplets are available out in the great big world of computer programming. A number of applets are included with your default KDE installation, thoughsome of them are more useful than others. Adding an applet icon to the panelAn interesting combination of applets is available in KDE, and you can easilyadd and remove these little gems from your KDE Panel as suits your needs. To add an applet to the panel (remember that the panel is the bar along thebottom of your screen) in KDE, follow these steps: 1.Right-click a blank spot on the panel. The panel s menu opens. 2.Choose Add.Applet. You find yourself looking at the Applet submenu s contents. 3.Choose the applet you want to add to the Panel. On a particularly crowded panel bar, you may have to use the right and leftarrow bars at the panel s ends to see the applet. You may need to delete fromthe panel, in fact, any items you don t use, to ensure that everything canshow up. (See the section Removing an applet, later in this chapter.) See those vertical bars between various panel entries? Hover your mousepointer over them, and the pointer changes into a two-headed arrow. You candrag those vertical bars left and right to expand and contract various parts ofyour panel. You can also click the little arrows at the top to open menusrelated to the applets. Configuring an appletSome applets have options that let you customize how they behave. Othersare more boring and just do the same old thing no matter what you wouldprefer. To check which configuration and other options are available for yourapplet, follow these steps: 1.Right-click the applet and examine the shortcut menu that appears. This shortcut menu is different from applet to applet. In fact, there doesn t seem to be any real consistency in the menu options! (And not every applet even has a shortcut menu.) Look for entries such as Preferences, Settings, or the word Configure. 298Part III:Getting Up to Speed with Linux