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Folders can be also be opened in a new tab or window by using the context menu of the Folder icon.
Breadcrumbs items (and even bookmarks) also offer this possibility via their context menus.
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Each Metview session defines a home folder (by default it is ~/metview). This folder is set as both the home and root folder for Desktop! This has two implications. First, the home icon in Desktop always means the Metview root folder (and not the UNIX home folder)! Second, we cannot directly access files outside this file system from within Desktop (but we need to use symbolic links for these files/folders). The home folder is represented by this icon:
Folder
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views
This is These are the central part of Desktop showing the contents of the currently selected folder. This area can contain multiple tabs each showing a different folder. On exiting Metview the list of opened tabs are saved! Folder navigation works for each tab independently.
There are two three folder view modes available:Classic icon view, and Simple icon view mode and detailed Detailed view mode. They can be set to each tab separately through the View menu or using these toolbar icons:
Bookmarks
Both folders and a set of folder tabs can be bookmarked. Bookmarks can be accessed either via the Bookmarks menu or the Bookmarks sidebar. You can open the the Bookmarks sidebar via the View menu or with the Ctrl+B shortcut.
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