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in Desktop always refers to the Metview home folder (and not the UNIX home folder)! Second, we cannot directly access files outside this file system from within Desktop (but we can use symbolic links for these files/folders).
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Icon drawers contain only user defined icons, so there can be several copies of the same type of icon with different contents. Also, 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 there. |
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Symbolic links to files and folders can be created from the Folder view context menu: Create new... Link to File/Folder. In this way, Metview can 'see' files which are outside its 'home' folder.
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