Chapter 6. Using GNOME

GNOME Overview
GNOME Panel
Desktop Menu
Personalizing GNOME
Configuring your Desktop
Configuring the Panel
Workspace Switcher
Getting Help

This chapter is dedicated to GNOME, another favorite graphical user interface. Although its features resemble a lot those of KDE, the user interface is a bit different to what you might be accustomed to. GNOME and KDE provide roughly equivalent functionalities (even though each one of them have their own die-hard fans who would argue otherwise). Moreover, you can use GNOME applications in KDE and vice versa. Let's start looking at the desktop.