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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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There is a drop-down 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.
Reaching folders and files outside the Metview folder hierarchy
Metview's "home" folder is $HOME/metview (unless changed by using the -u command-line start-up option). To reach files outside of this folder and its sub-folders, you must create links to those files. Do this by right-clicking on an empty part of the Metview desktop and select Create New… Link to File or Create New… Link to Folder. The link will appear with italicised text. When the mouse cursor hovers over the link icon, the status bar shows the path to the real file or folder.
Folder navigation
Folder navigation is based on the Back, Forward and Up arrows and on the breadcrumbs, which are all located in the toolbar. The breadcrumbs consist of the Home icon and the folder hierarchy to the right of it, including the arrows in-between them.
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- the Bookmarks menu
- the context menu of a Folder icon, folder tab or breadcrumbs item
- the context menu of the Bookmarks sidebar
- the bookmarks icon at the right hand edge of the navigation bar
Finding icons
Metview's folders can become cluttered with icons. Usually it is best to put related icons into well-organised sub-folders, but not everyone works like this!
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Metview features a filtering facility for finding icons in cluttered desktops. Just press Crtl+F in any of the folder views to bring up the icon filter bar at the bottom of the folder view. By typing in a filter term for name or/and type the icons not matching the filter are greyed out in the Folder view.
Icon search
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The Search icon dialogue can be started up from the Tools menu on the menu bar.
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Icons can be archived into a tar, tar.gz and tar.bz2 format by using the Archive as action in the icon context menu. Archiving is always based on the current selection. The resulting archive file is placed in the current folder and its name is generated from the first icon in the selection. Note that an icon may be part of a chain - any embedded icons will also be included in the archive.
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Extracting icons
For archived formats (e.g. tar.gz) Metview offers the Extract action in the icon context menu.
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