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-<chapter id="interface">
-<title>The user Interface</title>
-<para>When you start Synfig Studio, it will display a splash graphic and boot
-itself up. After it finishes loading, you should see three windows. The window
-in the upper left is the toolbox. This is where you can open files, change tools,
-etc. You'll notice that most of the buttons are greyed out--because there is no
-file open yet.</para>
-
-<para>The other two windows (one on the bottom, and one to the right) are
-customizable dock dialogs. You can rearrange the contents of these however
-you wish by simply dragging the tab to where you want it. You can even create a
-new dock dialog by dragging a tab out of the dock dialog it was inside of.</para>
-
-<para>If you ever accidently close a dock tabs (by dragging it out of the dock
-dialog, and closing the new dock dialog that gets created), no worries. Simply
-goto the toolbox and goto "File->Dialogs", and then click on the name of the
-dialog you need.</para>
-
-<para>There are a lot of dock tabs. If you have no idea what a dock tab does,
-simply hold your mouse over its icon and a tooltip will pop up describing the
-name of the tab.<para>
-
-Here are some of the more important ones:
-<itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Layers Dialog (<xref linkend="layers"/>) - This tab shows you the layer
- hierarchy for the currently selected canvas. It also allows you to manipulate
- these layers.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Params Dialog (<xref linkend="params"/>)- This tab will show you the
- parameters of the currently selected layer, (OR, if multiple layers are
- selected, it shows you only the parameters that the selected layers have
- in common)</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Tool Options Dialog (<xref linkend="tooloptions"/>) - Shows you any
- options specific to the currently selected tool</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Navigator (<xref linkend="navigator"/>) - Shows you a thumbnail of what the currently selected Canvas
- looks like. You can also zoom in and move the focus around with this tab.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>History Dialog (<xref linkend="history"/>- Shows you the history stack for the current composition.
- You can also edit the actions in history.</para>
- </listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-<para>If you click the "new composition" button in the toolbox, a new composition
-will be opened and the canvas properties dialog will appear.</para>
-
-<para>The canvas properties dialog is a mess, I know. I'll have it re-designed into
-something much more comprehendible in the next few days. For now, ignore the
-"Image Area" and "Locks and Links" sections.</para>
-
-<para>If you click OK, the canvas properties dialog will disappear and you will see
-the Canvas window. This window represents the Root Canvas, not that that means much
-to you at the moment, but that's OK--I'm just trying to show you around.</para>
-
-<para>In the upper left corner of the Canvas Window, you'll see a button with a
-caret If you click on this button, the canvas window menu will pop up. (As an aside,
-if you right click in the canvas area and there is not a layer under the mouse
-position, this menu will also appear) So now you know where the menu is in the Canvas
-Window. Good. Everything else should be pretty self-explanatory in the Canvas Window.
-(Explanations on the menu stuff is to come in a sec)</para>
-&toolbox.sgml;
-&layers.sgml;
-¶ms.sgml;
-&tooloptions.sgml;
-&navigator.sgml;
-&history.sgml;
-</chapter>