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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 icons in Desktop:
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Users can directly create Folder and Macro icons from this context menu. For 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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This dialog features three options to list the available Metview icons:
- Recent: it contains the list of recently created icons
- Types: icons are grouped by categories (e.g. by Views)
- Filter: it contains all the icons in a list with an optional filter working according to the combination of 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 into the Folder view to the location where it should be createdits desired location.
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To bookmark a set of folder tabs use:
- the Bookmarks menu menu
- the context menu in the Bookmarks sidebar
Tab-sets are indicated with a distinct grey icon in the bookmarks list like this (in this case "Demo" is being a tab-set bookmark):
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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 icon drawers where both the left and middle mouse button drag actions mean copy!
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For the Classic and Simple view modes the icons can be arranged on a grid sorted by the icon name, type or file size, respectively. This is a one-off action laying out the icons just oneonce, then the icons can be freely moved again.
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The Edit action in this example is highlighted in bold because it is the default action for this icon. The default action is triggered by double-click or hitting Enter on the icon. The default action is specific for an icon type and (for certain icons it is not defined at all).
Multiple selection
Desktop provide multiple icon selection by using the :
- rubberband selection with the mouse
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For multiple selection the icon context menu shows only the actions available for multiple icons.a specific set of actions only:
Clipboard usage
Desktop uses the system clipboard to implement the Copy, Cut and Paste actions on the current icon selection.
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Extracting icons
For archived formats (e.g. tar.gz) Desktop offers the Extract action in the icon context menu. For safety reasons, the result of the extraction is always place placed into a new folder.
Sending icons in email
It is possible to send icons in email from Metview by using the Send action from the icon context menu. When this action is triggered a tar.gz file is generated behind the scenes by resolving all the necessary dependencies (see Archiving icons) and add all the needed icon descriptor files are also added to the resulting archive file. Having generated the tar.gz file this dialog is popping up
enabling the Then users to can specify the address, write a the custom message and overview the contents and send of the tar.gz file as an attachment. attachmen to be sent.
When such email is received it appears something like this in an email client:
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The automatically generated part of the message contains clear instructions on how to to import the icons in the tar.gz attachment into the local Metview environment.
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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 way to see which parameters have been set in the icon.
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