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Launchers are buttons which reside in your Panel and start an application or execute a command when clicked. A launcher can use any icon and has a customized tooltip to display a message when the cursor is passed over the launcher.
You can change a launcher's properties, such as the icon it uses and its name, by right-clicking on the launcher and selecting Properties... from the pop-up menu. This brings up the Launcher properties dialog, shown in Figure 7. A similar dialog is used when you create a new launcher (see the section called Adding objects to the panel). Note that internally GNOME makes no distinction between menu items and launchers: these are just different representations of the same thing. You can place any menu item on a Panel, and it will appear as a launcher. Therefore, all the information below applies equally to launchers and menu items.
The Laucher Properties dialog has two tabs: Basic and Advanced. In the Basic tab, you can set:
Name — this is the application name, for example, GNOME terminal. This name will be used if you later put this launcher in a menu.
Comment — this is a brief explanation of what this application does, for example, Terminal emulation program. This will be used for tooltips.
Command — the actual command that runs the application, for example, gnome-terminal.
Type — should be Application; do not change it unless you want to create something other than an application launcher.
Icon — this is the icon which will be used to represent the launcher in the Panel. If no icon is specified, a default icon will be used. To change the icon, just click on it to launch the icon browser.
Run in Terminal — this specifies whether the application should be run inside a terminal. If the application doesn't create any windows on its own, check this button. If you are unsure, leave it unchecked.