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- menu bar: 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.
- status bar: displays information about the icons and provides the buttons for changing the icon size
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The Metview filesystem
Each Metview session defines a home folder (by default it is ~/metview). This folder is set as both the home and root folder for Desktop! This has two implications. First, the home folder icon
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To enter a folder double-click, hit enter or right-click Open on the icon. Folders can also be opened in a new tab or window by using the context menu of the Folder icon.
Folder tabs
The central part of Desktop can contain multiple tabs each showing a different folder. Folder navigation works for each tab independently.
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New tabs can be added by the blue button at the right edge of the tab bar or by using the Ctrl+T keyboard shourtcut.
As it can be seen in the picture above there There is a dropdown menu available at the right edge of the tab bar showing the actual list of open tabs. This menu can significantly ease the tab navigation if there is a large number of tabs open in a given Desktop window.
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The view modes can be set to for each tab separately through the View menu or by using these toolbar icons:
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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 . The default settings can be set in menu overwritten vie the Tools → Preferences. menu:
using the preferences editor:
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 status bar (they can also be accessed in the View 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 is shared between among the Desktop windows, so each window shows the same set of drawers.
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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 the Icon theiIcon drawers with new system icons. System icons in Desktop are exclusively available in the Create new icon dialog. |
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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.
Please note that Icon icon drawers can be hidden/shown via the View menu.
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