# Gnotes Applet

Copyright © 2000 by Michael Hall

# GNOTES! Applet

`GNOTES!` applet, shown in Figure 1, allows you to cover your GNOME desktop with little, yellow, virtual sticky-notes. To learn how to add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Utility->GNotes!.

Figure 1. GNOTES!

## Usage

This applet places a yellow sticky-note on your desktop. To use it, left-click on the GNOTES! icon to make a new note appear on your desktop. After creating a new note, you may then left-click within the yellow area of the note to begin adding text to it.

## Right-Click Pop-Up Menu Items

In addition to the standard menu items, the right-click pop-up menu has the following items:

- Properties… — opens the Properties dialog which allows you to customize the appearance and behavior of this applet.

- Help — displays this document.

- About… — shows basic information about `APPLET Applet`, inluding the applet's version and the author's name.

- Raise Notes — causes all your notes to appear above any overlapping windows.

- Lower Notes — causes all your notes to be hidden below any overlapping windows.

- Hide Notes — causes all your notes to become hidden from view. It does not destroy your notes.

- Show Notes — brings your notes back into view if you used the Hide Notes menu command.

## Right-Clicking on the Left Border of Individual Notes

You may also right-click on the left border of each of the notes on your desktop to change their individual properties.

- Raise Note — This menu item causes your note to appear above any overlapping windows.

- Lower Note — This menu item causes your note to be placed below any overlapping windows.

- Hide Note — This menu item causes your note to become hidden from view. It does not destroy your note.

- Destroy Note — This menu item permanently removes your note from the desktop. Unlike Hide Notes, you may not recover your note.

## Properties

You can configure `GNOTES!` applet by right-clicking on the applet and choosing the Properties... menu item. This will open the Properties dialog, shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2. Properties Dialog

To change the default size at which your notes appear on the desktop, you may either click on the up and down arrows, or type values (in pixels) directly into the fields next to the `Default Height` and `Default Width` labels.

After you have made all the changes you want, click on OK to apply the changes and close the Properties dialog. To cancel the changes and return to previous values, click the Cancel button.

## Known Bugs and Limitations

Setting the `Default Height` or `Default Width` may cause the `GNOTES` to crash.

After first adding `GNOTES!` to your Panel, clicking on the first note you create may cause a second note to be created on your desktop.

## Authors

This applet was writen by spoon `<spoon@ix.netcom.com>` and dres `<dres@debian.org>`. Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use `Bug Report Tool` (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports.

The documentation for this applet which you are reading now was written by Michael Hall `<mphall@cstone.net>`. Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to `<docs@gnome.org>`. You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table.

## License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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 GNU General Public License for more details.

A copy of the GNU General Public License is included as an appendix to the GNOME Users Guide. You may also obtain a copy of the GNU General Public License from the Free Software Foundation by visiting their Web site or by writing to

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