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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
The home folder concept
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 folder icon
in Desktop always refers to the Metview home 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).
Working with folders
Folders are represented by this icon in the user interface:
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Both breadcrumbs and history items have a context menu, which allows opening the folders in a new tab or window.
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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 folder icon
in Desktop always refers to the Metview home 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). |
Folder view modes
There are three folder view modes available:
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Sending mails
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