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Icon drawers are a set of tabs containing icon-strips appearing at the bottom of each Desktop window. Their contents is shared between the Desktop windows, so each window showing shows the same set of drawers.
Users are free to customise both the drawer tabs and the icons they store.
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Metview will not update the contents of the Drawers Icon drawers automatically any more. These tabs belong to the users now, which means, users are responsible to organise them. Please note that this is a different behaviour to MetviewUI, which automatically updated the Icon drawers with new system icons. System icons in Desktop are exclusively available via in the Create new icon dialog. |
Working with Drawers
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Please note that Icon drawers can be hidden/shown via the View menu.
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icons
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:
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):
This dialog features three options to list the all the Metview icons that user can createavailable icons:
- 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:
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To create an icon from the dialog just double click on the selected icon or drag it to the folder Folder view to the location where it should be created.
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| As it was highlighted above the Icon drawers contain only user defined icons. So there can be several copies of the same type of icon with a different content. Also it was mentioned that Icon drawers are never updated by Desktop, so they by no means can contain a complete set of Metview icons. On the contrary, the Create new icon dialog features the complete list allof the Metview icons that can be created in a given version of Metview.users can create, and there is only one instance of an icon (the system version) available here. |
Icon filtering
Desktop features a filtering facility for finding icons in cluttered desktops. Just press Crtl+F in any of the folder views to bring up the icon filter bar at the bottom of the folder view.
Copy and move by drag and drop
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