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titleTabs are saved
On exiting Metview the list of opened tabs are saved! Tabs can also be saved as bookmarks.

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Folder navigation

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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The view modes can be set for each tab separately through the View menu or by using these toolbar icons:

Changing icon sizes

Th The 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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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. The default settings can be overwritten vie via the Tools → Preferences menu:

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titleChange of behaviour

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 theiIcon the icon drawers with new system icons. System icons in Desktop are exclusively available in the Create new icon dialog.

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To create an icon from the dialog just double click on the selected icon or drag it into the Folder view to its desired location.

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  • rubberband selection with the mouse
  • Ctrl selection
  • Shift selection.

For multiple selection the icon context menu shows a specific set of actions only:

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Unwanted icons can be moved to the 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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Archiving/extracting icons

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Then users can specify the address, write a the custom message and overview the contents of the  tar.gz attachmenattachment to be sent. 

When such email is received it appears something like this in an email client:

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