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A Desktop window is divided into six parts.
- Menubarmenu bar: contains menus and actions
- Toolbartoolbar: contains a set of buttons/widgets to customise the view and navigate through the folders
- Folder folder view: contents of the currently selected folder (or folders in different tabs).
- Sidebarsidebar: contains the Bookmarks panel
- Icon icon drawers: drawers are a set of centrally accessible folder tabs. They appear at the bottom of each Desktop window.
- Statusbarstatus bar: displays information about the icons and provides the buttons for changing the icon size
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The view modes can be set to each tab separately through the View menu or using these toolbar icons:
Changing icon sizes
Th statusbar status bar features an icon size slider to change the icon sizes in the current folder (sizes between 16 and 96 pixels are available).
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Desktop offers a 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 status bar (they can also be accessed in the View menu).
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As the mouse hovers over an icon in the folder views certain icon information such as name, type, size and modification date are automatically displayed at left edge of the statusbarstatus bar:
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Desktop uses the system clipboard to implement the Copy, Cut and Paste actions on the current icon selection.
Deleting icons
There is no direct action to delete icons in Desktop, instead, unwanted Unwanted icons can be moved to the Wastebin wastebin by using the Move to wastebin action (Del shortcut). The wastebin can be emptied in order to permanently delete the icon(s).
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The automatically generated part of the message contains clear instructions on how to import the icons in the tar.gz attachment into the local Metview environment.
Icon editors
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Many of the icon types in Metview are editable. To edit an icon double-click or hit Enter on the icon, or right-click and select Edit form the context menu. This will bring up bring up the icon editor assigned to the given icon type. The basic editor, which is used for the most of the Metview icons, looks like this in Desktop:
This editor is divided into five main parts:
- header: contains information about the icon being edited
- toolbar: contains a set of buttons to customise the editor
- parameters: each icon parameter can be individually edited here
- editor drawers: offers various drawers storing custom icons
- button box: contains the buttons to e.g. save, reset the editor.
Toolbar actions
The toolbar features two buttons to switch between GUI and text-based editor modes (the latter is indicated by the 'T' icon):
Editors are always opened up in a GUI-based editor mode and to switch into the text-based mode the editor has to be saved.
The text-base mode reveals the 'contents' of the icon in text format. Here only the parameters which have been changed from their default settings can be seen. This is a quick ways to see which parameters have been set in the icon.
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Icon parameters
Each icon parameter has its default value. When a parameter is set to a non-default value a blue 'revert' button appears in front of it to indicate that it has been altered from the default. This button also reverts the parameter to is default when clicked.
Button box
The button box, which is located at the bottom of the editor, offers the following actions:
- Ok: save changes and close
- Save: save changes and stay open (it is also triggered by hitting Enter anywhere in the editor)
- Cancel: close and do not save changes
- Reset: reset editor to the last saved state
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Process monitor
Metview has a built-in task monitor, available from the Tools menu on the menu bar.
This tool allows users seeing which processes Metview is currently running. It is also allows some control , such as the ability to abort processes (right-click menu on each process's entry).
