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GNOME Desktop Components

The following sections describe the different architectural components which compose the GNOME user interface.
Applets
Small graphical applications which dock inside the GNOME panel

Capplets
Control applets - run inside the GNOME Control Center to allow configuration of desktop (for example, desktop background color).

Desktop
The handling objects on the background of the desktop (eg. icons).

Window Manager Interaction
How GNOME interacts with window managers.

Panel
The GNOME panel

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