...
- Menubar: 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 either the Bookmarks panel or the Create New Icon panel
- Drawers: drawers are a set of centrally accessible folders organised into folder tabs. They appear at the bottom of each Desktop window.
- Statusbar: displays information about the icons and provides the buttons for changing the icon size
...
Both folders and a set of folder tabs can be bookmarked. Bookmarks can be accessed either via the Bookmarks menu or the Bookmarks sidebar. We You can open the the Bookmarks sidebar via the View menu or by with the Ctrl+B shortcut.
There are many different various ways to bookmark a folder. You can use
- 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 Breadcrumbs.
...
- the Bookmarks menu
- the context menu in the Bookmarks sidebar
Bookmark items can be open opened in various ways (e.g. in a new tab or in a new window) via their context menu.
...
Icon drawers
Drawers Icon drawers are a set of centrally accessible and user customisable folders tabs containing icon-strips appearing at the bottom of each Desktop window. This contents of this area Their contents is shared between the Desktop windows (per Metview user). Users are free to customise both the drawer tabs and the icons they store. By dragging an icon from the Icon drawers to the Folder views creates a copy of that icon in the target folder. Similarly by dragging an icon from a Folder view to the Icon drawers adds a copy of this icon to target drawer.
| Info |
|---|
Drawers conteny |
Please note that Icon drawers can be hidden/shown via the View menu.
Create new icons
There are two On top of using the Icon drawers there are other ways to create new icon icons in Desktop.
. The first option is to use the New icon sidebar. You you can open it the via the View menu or with the Ctrl+N shortcut. Its interface shows you all the icons that can be created in Metview. To create a new icon just drag it to one of the Folder views.
The second option to create new icons is to use the Folder view context menu (right-click anywhere in the view when no icons are selected to see this menu):
Here action 'Create New Icon' will start up a modeless Create icon dialog, which contains the same interface as the Create icon sidebar. There are other two actions to use: 'Create new Folder' and 'Create new Macro' directly creates a new Folder or a Macro, respectively.
Send email
Compress icons
...