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| The minimum recommended Metview version to run Desktop is 4.4.6. |
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You need to Desktop requires starting up Metview up with the -desktop flag. At ECMWF the command to use is as follows: metview4_new -desktop Outside Users outside ECMWF you need to use your their local metview command. |
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Notes for MetviewUI users
- On first start up Desktop imports all the MetviewUI folder list and opens them all up in the same window as a set of tabs.
- MetviewUI stores icon positions and types in hidden files (dot files). There is one such file for each icon. In Desktop this information is still stored but there is only one dot file per folder.
- MetviewUI icon positions are read only when Desktop opens a folder for the first time, then icon positions diverge in the two system (due to the different way of storing icon information).
- 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 the Icon drawers with new system icons. System icons in Desktop are exclusively available in the Create new icon dialog.
The Desktop window
Overview
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- 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 the Bookmarks panel
- Drawers: drawers are a set of centrally accessible 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
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- Apply icon size to all open folders:it is a one-off action broadcasting the icon size from the current folder to all the open folders is one go
- Save view settings as default: it saves the view mode and icon size of the current folder as a default
- Revert view settings to default: it changes the view mode and icon size for the current folder back to the default settings
Icon information
As the mouse hovers over an icon in the folder views some icon information such as name, type, size and modification date is automatically displayed in left edge of the statusbar:
Icon drawers
Icon drawers are a set of tabs containing icon-strips appearing at the bottom of each Desktop window. Their contents is shared between the Desktop windows, so each window shows the same set of drawers.
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Icon drawers contain only user defined icons. So there can be several copies of the same type of icon with a different content. Besides, 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 here. |
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Both folders and a tab-sets can be bookmarked. Bookmarks can be accessed either via the Bookmarks menu or the Bookmarks sidebar.
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