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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)menu Tools → Preferences.
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 (they can also be accessed in the View menu).
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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: 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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- the Bookmarks menu
- the context menu in ththe Bookmarks 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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Icon drawers are a set of tabs containing icon-strips appearing at the bottom of each Desktop window. Their contents contents is shared between the Desktop windows (per Metview user)each window showing the same set of drawers.
Users are free to customise both the drawer tabs and the icons they store.
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Users can add new drawers by using the blue Add drawer button at the right edge of the drawers tab. Other drawer related actions can be accessed via the context menu of the drawer tabs.
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Please note that Icon drawers can be hidden/shown via the View menu.
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Creating new system icons
On top of using the Icon drawers there are other The Folder view context menu (right-click anywhere in the view when no icons are selected to see this menu) offer various ways to create new system icons in Desktop. The first option is to use the New icon sidebar. You you can open it the via the View menu or with :
Users can directly create Folder and Macro icons from this context menu (or by using the corresponding keyboard shortcuts). For the other icons the Create new icon dialog has to be started up from the context menu (or by using the Ctrl+N shortcut. Its interface shows you all the icons that can be created in Metview. To create a new icon just drag it to one of the Folder views.
The second option to create new icons is to use the Folder view context menu (right-click anywhere in the view when no icons are selected to see this menu):
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This dialog features three options to list the all the Metview icons that user can create:
- Recent: it contains the list of recently created icons
- Types: icons are grouped by categories (e.g. Views)
- Filter: it contains all the icons in a list with an optional filter working according to icon name, type and category. For example by typing the filter term "geo" results in the following list:
To create an icon from the dialog just double click on the selected icon or drag it to the folder view to location where it should be created.
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Here action 'Create new icon' will start up a modeless Create icon dialog, which contains the same interface as the Create icon sidebar. There are two other actions to use: 'Create new folder' and 'Create new macro' directly creates a new Folder or a Macro, respectively.
Copy and move by drag and drop
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