The Central Glade Window
In this window are listed the windows and widget combinations you create. By clicking on one of them you can bring it up for viewing and changing. The button bar at the top of the window gives access to the main Glade functions; opening a project, saving it, setting project options, and building the code for it. The menu bar above the button bar should be self explanatory. One thing to note, in the view menu you can find the 'show widget tree' option. This is often very useful. Glade help files and a Glade manual exist and are sources of good information. They are accessible from the menu if you are in Gnome (I can't vouch for KDE, I don't use it).
The Palette Window
The Palette is exactly that, a palette of all widgets available. There are 3 pages of them, the first contains basic widgets. Note here that the bottom 3 rows (as pictured) are 'container' widgets. These are important, as they will hold the other widgets within the window. The second page has extra gtk+ widgets, and the third page contains Gnome widgets. If you are developing a Gnome application, use these. They help standardize the interface for users.
The Properties Window
This window's entries change as widget type changes. Most of them are self-explanatory, or yield their secrets with some experimentation. Important is the 'signals' tab. Here is where you set the names of the callback functions. You will also probably want to at least set the name of the widget, and title it. You can use the default names, but they soon get confusing.
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