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MetviewUI stores icon positions and types in hidden files (dot files). There is one such file for each icon. In Desktop this information is still stored but there is only one dot file per folder.

Icon positions

Desktop only reads existing MetviewUI icon positions are read only when Desktop it opens a folder for the first time, then . Then icon positions diverge in the two system (due to the different way of storing icon information).

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Metview will not update the contents of the 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 theIcon drawersdrawers with new system icons. System icons in Desktop are exclusively available in the Create new icon dialog.

The Desktop window

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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
• Icon 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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