THE DESKTOP AND

GUI

ELEM EN TS TY P IC A L O F G U I
GUI
Manual cursor
desktop
dropdown menu
folder
icon
open
right-click
run
select

G U I(graphicaluser interface)
It is an IT program that acts of user's interface, using a
set of images and graphical objects. To represent the
information and available actions in the interface. His
principal use, it consists of providing a visual simple
environment to allow the communication with the
operating system of a machine or computing.
Habitually the actions are realized by means of direct
manipulation, to facilitate the interaction of the user with
the computer.

TH E D ES K TO P
The desktop is that interface of software that has been
originally created by the aim to generate a space of
comfortable and easy access to the programs and
available operations of a computer. It is a graphical
interface in which they can prepare of different way
numerous icons, accesses, folders, files, toolbars and
programs. All of them can have be before selected and
organized by the user of agreement to his specific
needs.

D R O P D O W N M EN U
Element of the GUI that allows to a
user to select of a drop-down list
an option. It differs from a simple
list in the fact that

FO LD ER
The operating system can simulate his function
by means of a file named folder, folder or
directory, which acts as container to store files or
other folders. The folders are useful to organize
the information. For example, you can create a
folder that contains all the files related to a
specific topic.

IC O N
The icons of the system are those
icons that are in use for identifying
files, direct accesses, programs
and tools of the operating system.

TH E R IG H T C LIC K O F TH E
M O U SE
The right click of the mouse or mouse is the action to
press (to do click) on the right button of the mouse. This
action is in the habit of being in use for opening the
contextual menu of the element him where the cursor of
the mouse settles in this moment. If the mouse is
formed for left-handed, the right click will be in this case
the button of the left side.

RUN
In computer science, to execute is the action to initiate
the load of a program or of any feasible file. In other
words, the execution is the process by means of which a
computer carries out the instructions of an IT program.
There can be executed compiled programs (for example,
in Windows, the .EXE) or programs interpreted (for
example, the scripts). To execute a program implies that
this one will be in condition of execution and, for ende, in
memory, until it concludes

S ELEC T
In computer science also we meet a reference to
this term, provided that selecting is an action that
we will be able to realize so much in the edition of
document of text, in a web page, between other
alternatives and that basically consists of marking
a part of a text or of an image of then being able
to copy and stick it in another document it.