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A Desktop window is divided into six parts.
- 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 are represented by this icon in the user interface:
To enter a folder double-click, hit enter or right-click Open on the icon. Folders can also be opened in a new tab or window by using the context menu of the Folder icon.
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The central part of Desktop can contain multiple tabs each showing a different folder. Folder navigation works for each tab independently.
New tabs can be added by the blue button at the right edge of the tab bar or by using the Ctrl+T keyboard shourtcut.
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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, which 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 view properties
View modes
There are three folder view modes available:
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The view modes can be set to each tab separately through the View menu or using these toolbar icons:
Changing icon sizes
Th statusbar features an icon size slider to change the icon sizes in the current folder (sizes between 16 and 96 pixels are available.
The icon size can also be changed from the View menu or from the Desktop context menu.
Folder settings
Bookmarks
Both folders and a set of folder tabs can be bookmarked. Bookmarks can be accessed either via the Bookmarks menu or the Bookmarks sidebar. You can open the the Bookmarks sidebar via the View menu or with the Ctrl+B shortcut.
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