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- Menubar: contains menus and actions
- Toolbar: contains a set of buttons/widgets to customise the view and navigate through the folders
- Folder view: contents of the currently selected folder (or folders in different tabs).
- Sidebar: contains the Bookmarks panel
- Drawers: drawers are a set of centrally accessible folder tabs. They appear at the bottom of each Desktop window.
- Statusbar: displays information about the icons and provides the buttons for changing the icon size
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Folders
Folders are represented by this icon in the user interface:
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To enter a folder double-click or right-click Open on the icon. Folder navigation is based on the Back, Forward and Up arrows and on the Breadcrumbs, which are all located in the toolbar.
Folders can be also be opened in a new tab or window by using the context menu of the Folder icon.
Breadcrumbs items (and even bookmarks) also offer this possibility via their context menus.
Each visited folder is added to the folder history that can be accessed via the History menu (it can store at most 20 folders).
The home folder
Each Metview session defines a home folder (by default it is ~/metview). This folder is set as both the home and root folder for Desktop! This has two implications. First, the home icon in Desktop always means the Metview root folder (and not the UNIX home folder)! Second, we cannot directly access files outside this file system from within Desktop (but we need to use symbolic links for these files/folders). The home folder is represented by this icon:
Folder navigation
Folder navigation is based on the Back, Forward and Up arrows and on the Breadcrumbs, which are all located in the toolbar.
Each visited folder is added to the folder history that can be accessed via the History menu (it can store at most 25 folders).
Both breadcrumbs and history items have a context menu, which allows opening the folders in a new tab or window.
Folder views
These are the central part of Desktop showing the contents of the currently selected folder. This area can contain multiple tabs each showing a different folder. On exiting Metview the list of opened tabs are saved! Folder navigation works for each tab independently.
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