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| On exiting Metview the list of opened tabs are saved! Tabs can also be saved as bookmarks. |
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Folder navigation is based on the Back, Forward and Up arrows and on the Breadcrumbs, which are all located in the toolbar.
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Each visited folder is added to the folder history, which can be accessed via the History menu.
Both breadcrumbs and history items have a context menu, which allows opening the folders in a new tab or window.
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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
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 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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The tasks performed by these actions are explained in detailas 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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As the mouse hovers over an icon in the folder views some certain icon information such as name, type, size and modification date is are automatically displayed in at left edge of the statusbar:
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Metview will not update the contents of the Icon 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 in the Create new icon dialog. |
Working with Drawers
By dragging an icon from the Icon icon drawers to the Folder views creates a copy of that icon in the target folder. Similarly by dragging an icon from a Folder view to the Icon drawers adds a copy of this icon to the target drawer.
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.
Please note that Icon drawers can be hidden/shown via the View menu.
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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):
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Icon drawers contain only user defined icons. So there can be several copies of the same type of icon with a different content. Besides, Icon icon drawers are never updated by Desktop, so they are not supposed to contain the complete set of Metview icons. On the contrary, the Create new icon dialog features the complete list of the Metview icons that users can create, and there is only one instance of an icon (the system version) available here. |
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- 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 use:
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The drop target can also be a Folder icon, a Folder tab, a Breadcrumbs item, a Bookmarks item or an Icon drawer. The rules are the same except for the Icon drawers where both the left and middle mouse button drag actions mean copy!
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The desktop context menu provides a specific set of actions available for the given Folder view.
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