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1.2.2 Desktop Icons
By default, the Desktop Folder showing the contents of the ~/Desktop folder, displays
the following icons by default:
My Computer
The My Computer icon is very useful for viewing the most important information
about your hardware, network status, disks (hard disks, removable media, and ex-
ternal devices), operating system, and some common folders at one glance. For
example, find processor type and speed listed there, information about your RAM
and the current swap status, or your graphics card. OS Information lists the most
important information about your operating system such as the Kernel version in-
cluded, the current user, version number and type of the operating system, and the
KDE version number. SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop ships with a number of
further tools (either graphical or command line tools) that you can use to get more
detailed information about your system. If you need detailed hardware information
about your system, use the YaST hardware probing, described in Section "Probing
Your Hardware" (Chapter 5, Setting Up Hardware Components with YaST, ↑De-
ployment Guide).
Firefox
Opens the Firefox Web browser. For more information, refer to Chapter 18,
Browsing with Firefox (↑Application Guide).
Office
Opens a new OpenOffice.org document. For an introduction to the office suite,
refer to Chapter 1, The OpenOffice.org Office Suite (↑Application Guide).
1.2.3 Panel Icons
The quick launch area of your panel as shipped with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
includes the following icons by default:
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KDE User Guide
(page 37).
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