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Desktop is a bespoke file manager designed to access and work with Metview icons. It is meant to replace the current user interface (called MetviewUI) later this year.
How to start up Metview with Desktop?
You need to start Metview with the -desktop flag. At the moment the best version to try Desktop out is metview4_dev, so the command is as follows:
metview4_dev -desktop
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Are there still dot files in Desktop?
MetviewUI stores icon positions and types in hidden files (dot files). There is one such file for each icon. In Desktop this information is still stored but there is only one dot file per Folderfolder. So changing
The user interface
Desktop's user interface is divided into six parts.
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