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(I apologize ahead of time if I oversimplified anything here, especially if you already have a firm knowledge of this stuff)
Roger, I'm not totally clear on your question, but I'll see if I can give my view on it. Keep in mind, the NC's are rooted (hacked), so they don't really look anything like the stock B&N Nook Color after you bring it home from the store. Per Scion's recommendation, I'm also using ADW.Launcher which allows you some new options on your desktop (amongst a few other nifty things). You could liken any custom "launcher" to a customized Windows desktop I suppose, with extra icon trays and shortcut bars and such.
[post rooting] The Android OS basically only has (2) Screens, the "desktop" (or Home) screen, and the "Drawer" screen. The Android desktop (home) screen is of course what appears after starting up the NC. The Drawer is basically a list of all your installed applications.
If you want to have an icon (shortcut) of any application on your desktop, go to the drawer, and hold down on one of the app icons, at which point your desktop will appear and you can further place the new icon shortcut anywhere you wish on the desktop. So, you see all the icon shortcuts on our desktops.
The nifty calendars and weather/clocks and stuff that you see on the desktop are not shortcuts, but rather "Widgets." Some programs, like calendar, may already be installed, but don't really have a nice widget for that application. So you download a custom widget, and then activate the widget on the desktop. As I recall, my clock and weather widgets were called "Fancy Widget."
After rooting, you should have access to the Android Market, where you can download all these nifty apps and widgets, some free, some cost a couple dollars (most have a free version you can try out first).
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