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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.
As you can see in the picture above there is a dropdown menu at the right edge of the tab bar showing the actual list of open tabs. This menu can significantly ease the tab navigation if there are a large number of tabs open in a given Desktop window.
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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.
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View mode and icon size are stored for each folder separately. When a folder is opened for the first time in Desktop these settings are read directly from existing MetviewUI settings. For newly created/opened folders the default view mode and icon size is used, which can be set in the Preferences (available in the Tools menu).
Desktop offers a small set of actions to customise the folder settings.These actions are available from the Folder settings tool button (with the "spanner" icon) at the right edge of the statusbar and (they can also be accessed in the View menu).
These actions are You can use these actions to perform the tasks as follows:
- Apply icon size to all open folders:it is a one-off action broadcasting the icon size from the current folder to all the open folders is one go
- Save view settings as default: save it saves the view mode and icon size of the current folder as a default
- Revert view settings to default: it changes the view mode and icon size for the current folder back to the default settings
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Both folders and a tab-sets can be bookmarked. Bookmarks can be accessed either via the Bookmarks menu or the Bookmarks sidebar.
You can open the the Bookmarks sidebar
- with the Bookmarks button in the toolbar
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- from the View menu
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- by pressing Ctrl+B.
Bookmarking a folder
There are various ways to bookmark a folder. You can use
- the Bookmarks menu
- the context menu of a Folder icon, Folder tab or Breadcrumbs item.
- the context menu of the Bookmarks sidebar
- the bookmarks icon at the right hand edge of the Breadcrumbs.
Bookmarking tabs
To bookmark a set of folder tabs you can use:
- the Bookmarks menu
- the context menu in theBookmarks sidebar
Tab-sets are indicated with a distinct grey icon in the bookmarks list like this (in this case "Demo" is being a tab-set bookmark):
Using bookmarks
Bookmark items can be opened in various ways (e.g. in a new tab or in a new window) via their context menu.
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