Updated userguide and welcome pages. Thanks all translators. +alpha3

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<tr><td style="width:24px;"><img src="../images/apps-images/mediaplayer-icon_16.png" alt="icon" width="16" height="16" /></td><td><a href="applications/mediaplayer.html">MediaPlayer</a></td><td> </td>
<td valign="top">A player for all supported audio/video files.</td></tr>
<tr><td style="width:24px;"><img src="../images/apps-images/midiplayer-icon_16.png" alt="icon" width="16" height="16" /></td><td><a href="applications/midiplayer.html">MidiPlayer</a></td><td> </td>
<td valign="top"><span style="color:silver">A player for MIDI files. [<i>still missing</i>]</span></td></tr>
<td valign="top">A player for MIDI files.</td></tr>
<tr><td style="width:24px;"><img src="../images/apps-images/packageinstaller-icon_16.png" alt="icon" width="16" height="16" /></td><td><a href="applications/packageinstaller.html">PackageInstaller</a></td><td> </td>
<td valign="top"><span style="color:silver">Installer for BeOS packages in PKG format. [<i>still missing</i>]</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="width:24px;"><img src="../images/apps-images/people-icon_16.png" alt="icon" width="16" height="16" /></td><td><a href="applications/people.html">People</a></td><td> </td>
@@ -69,14 +69,14 @@ Also, be aware that <tt>.</tt> and <tt>,</tt> are both considered floating point
<li><p>Right-clicking offers these options:</p>
<table summary="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td><span class="menu">Enable Num Lock on start up</span></td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td>automatically activates the number block when launching DeskCalc</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Show Keypad</span></td><td></td><td>hides the keypad when deactivated</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Show keypad</span></td><td></td><td>hides the keypad when deactivated</td></tr>
</table></li>
<li><p>You can resize the calculator until it fits your needs and then put it as <a href="../gui.html#replicants">Replicant</a> onto the Desktop via drag&amp;drop of the symbol in the bottom right corner. Make sure <span class="menu">Show Replicants</span> is activated in the Deskbar.</p></li>
<li><p>You can resize the calculator until it fits your needs and then put it as <a href="../gui.html#replicants">Replicant</a> onto the Desktop via drag&amp;drop of the symbol in the bottom right corner. Make sure <span class="menu">Show replicants</span> is activated in the Deskbar.</p></li>
<li><p>The keypad can be colored with a drag&amp;drop from any color well, e.g. from <span class="app">Icon-O-Matic</span>.</p></li>
<li><p>You can move up and down in a history of past calculations with <span class="key"></span> and <span class="key"></span>.</p></li>
<li><p>You can select DeskCalc's contents and drag&amp;drop it into any application. Or you drop it into a Tracker window or onto the Desktop and a text file with that clipping is created there.</p>
<p>Even better, the reverse is also possible:<br />
Create clippings as described at various stages of your calculation and go back to them by drag&amp;dropping them back into DeskCalc.<br />
Create clippings as described at various stages of your calculation and go back to them by drag &amp; dropping them back into DeskCalc.<br />
Or you drag&amp;drop a calculation directly out of an email onto DeskCalc.</p></li>
<li><p>DeskCalc can be used in Terminal. Just put the expression in double quotes, like this:</p>
<pre class="terminal">~&gt; DeskCalc "sin(45)*(cos(12)+3.45)"
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Which brings us to this:</p>
<p>When you found unformatted space on a drive, like the above <tt>&lt;empty&gt;</tt>, you can create a new partition in this space with <span class="menu">Partition | Create...</span>(<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">C</span>).</p>
<img src="../images/apps-images/drivesetup-create.png" alt="drivesetup-create.png" />
<p>You're prompted with this dialog that lets you adjust the partition size and type. Choose <span class="menu">Be File System</span> if you want to use the partition for an Haiku installation or if you want to use all the interesting Haiku features with it, like attributes and queries. Note, that other operating systems might not be able to access such a partition.</p>
<p>If you have created a primary partition instead of just another extended/logical partition within one, the above dialog also displays an <span class="menu">Active Partition</span> checkbox. You'll have to check that, if you'll use that partition to boot a Haiku installation.</p>
<p>If you have created a primary partition instead of just another extended/logical partition within one, the above dialog also displays an <span class="menu">Active partition</span> checkbox. You'll have to check that, if you'll use that partition to boot a Haiku installation.</p>
<p>Before you can use, or even mount the newly created partition, it has to be initialized with a filesystem.</p>
<h2>
<a href="#"><img src="../../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Just double-click an archive to see this simple interface:</p>
<tr><td><span class="button">Destination</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">D</span></td><td>will open a file dialog to set the destination.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="button">Expand</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">E</span></td><td>will start the unpacking. It can be aborted with <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">K</span>.</td></tr>
</table>
<p>You can toggle the display of the file listing by un/checking <i>Show Contents</i> or pressing <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">L</span>.</p>
<p>You can toggle the display of the file listing by un/checking <i>Show contents</i> or pressing <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">L</span>.</p>
<div class="box-info">Expander can only unpack whole archives.<br />
You can't select individual files to expand or add/remove files from the archive.</div>
<p><span class="menu">Edit | Preferences...</span> or <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">P</span> opens a preference panel that offers some useful settings to adjust Expander's behavior.<br />
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Take this icon of the Terminal, for example:</p>
<h2>
<a href="#"><img src="../../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
<a id="icons-attributes" name="icons-attributes">Icons are attributes</a></h2>
<p>Icons are stored as an attribute with their file. However, that doesn't mean that every file has to have this attribute to appear with an icon in a Tracker window: data files inherit their icon from their filetype. To globally change the filetype's icon you use the <span class="app">FileTypes</span> preferences. If you only want to add a special icon to an individual file, you use the <span class="app">FileType Add-On</span> on it instead. See topic <a href="../filetypes.html">Filetypes</a> for more information.</p>
<p>Icons are stored as an attribute with their file. However, that doesn't mean that every file has to have this attribute to appear with an icon in a Tracker window: data files inherit their icon from their filetype. To globally change the filetype's icon you use the <span class="app">FileTypes</span> preferences. If you only want to add a special icon to an individual file, you use the <span class="app">FileType add-on</span> on it instead. See topic <a href="../filetypes.html">Filetypes</a> for more information.</p>
<div class="box-info">Being an attribute, it follows that only filesystems supporting metadata can retain a file's individual icon. So, if you move files off your BFS volume, consider zipping them up so you don't lose icons or other attributes.</div>
<h2>
@@ -165,13 +165,13 @@ Selected points are deleted by pressing <span class="key">DEL</span> or by click
</table>
<h4><a id="i-o-m-path-menu" name="i-o-m-path-menu">Path Menu</a></h4>
<p>The <span class="menu">Path</span> menu offers a few obvious entries to <span class="menu">Add Rectangle</span> and <span class="menu">Add Circle</span> or to <span class="menu">Duplicate</span> or <span class="menu">Remove</span> a path. Here are some that may need a bit more explaining:</p>
<p>The <span class="menu">Path</span> menu offers a few obvious entries to <span class="menu">Add rectangle</span> and <span class="menu">Add circle</span> or to <span class="menu">Duplicate</span> or <span class="menu">Remove</span> a path. Here are some that may need a bit more explaining:</p>
<table summary="Path menu" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td><span class="menu">Reverse</span></td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td>If your path isn't "closed" (see Path Properties below), a click into the canvas always creates a new point, connecting it with the last one. "Reverse" will reverse this order and your new point will connect to original start point instead.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Clean Up</span></td><td></td><td>Most useful with imported SVGs, this function will remove redundant points.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Rotate Indices Right</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">R</span></td><td>Practically, this rotates the opening of a path. It's best seen when using a not-closed path with a style and a shape with a stroke transformer. Now, if your path looks like a ⊂ it will rotate like this: ⊂ ∩ ⊃ .</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Rotate Indices Left</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">SHIFT</span> <span class="key">R</span></td><td>Does the same in the other direction.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Clean up</span></td><td></td><td>Most useful with imported SVGs, this function will remove redundant points.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Rotate indices right</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">R</span></td><td>Practically, this rotates the opening of a path. It's best seen when using a not-closed path with a style and a shape with a stroke transformer. Now, if your path looks like a ⊂ it will rotate like this: ⊂ ∩ ⊃ .</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Rotate indices left</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">SHIFT</span> <span class="key">R</span></td><td>Does the same in the other direction.</td></tr>
</table>
<h4><a id="i-o-m-path-properties" name="i-o-m-path-properties">Path Properties</a></h4>
@@ -205,11 +205,11 @@ Selected points are deleted by pressing <span class="key">DEL</span> or by click
<p>Shapes lie on top of each other, each is on its own layer, if you will. To reorder them you drag&amp;drop their entry to a different position in the list.</p>
<h4><a id="i-o-m-shape-menu" name="i-o-m-path-menu">Shape Menu</a></h4>
<p>The <span class="menu">Shape</span> menu offers the before mentioned possibility to <span class="menu">Add Empty, With Path/Style/Path&amp;Style</span> and to <span class="menu">Duplicate</span> or <span class="menu">Remove</span> a shape. Then, there is:</p>
<p>The <span class="menu">Shape</span> menu offers the before mentioned possibility to <span class="menu">Add empty, with path/style/path &amp; style</span> and to <span class="menu">Duplicate</span> or <span class="menu">Remove</span> a shape. Then, there is:</p>
<table summary="Shape menu" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td><span class="menu">Reset Transformation</span></td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td>Reverts all the move, resize and rotate transformations you have applied to the shape.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Freeze Transformation</span></td><td></td><td>When you transform a shape, its assigned path(s) stay in their original position. This may be intended; maybe more than one shape is using that path, maybe you intentionally used <span class="menu">Options | Snap to Grid</span> to set the points at precise pixel borders.<br />
If not, "Freeze Transformation" will apply the current shape transformation to the assigned path(s). A future "Reset Transformation" will then return to this new state.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Reset transformation</span></td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td>Reverts all the move, resize and rotate transformations you have applied to the shape.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Freeze transformation</span></td><td></td><td>When you transform a shape, its assigned path(s) stay in their original position. This may be intended; maybe more than one shape is using that path, maybe you intentionally used <span class="menu">Options | Snap to grid</span> to set the points at precise pixel borders.<br />
If not, "Freeze transformation" will apply the current shape transformation to the assigned path(s). A future "Reset Transformation" will then return to this new state.</td></tr>
</table>
<h4><a id="i-o-m-shape-properties" name="i-o-m-shape-properties">Shape Properties</a></h4>
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ Of course you can move these indicators to change the gradient to your liking. Y
<p>You can move, resize and rotate the representing box of a gradient on the canvas until it fits your needs. This works just like with shapes.</p>
<h4><a id="i-o-m-style-menu" name="i-o-m-style-menu">Style Menu</a></h4>
<p>The <span class="menu">Style</span> menu offers the usual entries to <span class="menu">Add</span>, <span class="menu">Duplicate</span> or <span class="menu">Remove</span> a style and to <span class="menu">Reset Transformation</span>.</p>
<p>The <span class="menu">Style</span> menu offers the usual entries to <span class="menu">Add</span>, <span class="menu">Duplicate</span> or <span class="menu">Remove</span> a style and to <span class="menu">Reset transformation</span>.</p>
<h4><a id="i-o-m-style-properties" name="i-o-m-style-properties">Style Properties</a></h4>
<p>The <span class="menu">Name</span> is the only <span class="menu">Properties</span> of a style.</p>
@@ -280,9 +280,9 @@ Of course you can move these indicators to change the gradient to your liking. Y
<p>Besides a <span class="menu">Name</span> and the actual <span class="menu">Width</span> for the transformer, the <span class="menu">Properties</span> view has these (depending on its type slightly differing) options:</p>
<table summary="Transformer properties" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td><span class="menu">Caps</span></td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td><i>Stroke only</i>. Defines the end caps of a line: <span class="menu">Butt</span>, <span class="menu">Square</span> or <span class="menu">Round</span>.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Detect Orient.</span></td><td></td><td><i>Contour only</i>. Determines if the contour is to the inside or outside the path.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Detect orient.</span></td><td></td><td><i>Contour only</i>. Determines if the contour is to the inside or outside the path.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Joins</span></td><td></td><td>Defines how lines are joint at a point: <span class="menu">Miter</span>, <span class="menu">Round</span> or <span class="menu">Bevel</span>.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Miter Limit</span></td><td></td><td>Only when the above <span class="menu">Joins</span> is set to "Miter" this setting influences the looks of the miter joint. </td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Miter limit</span></td><td></td><td>Only when the above <span class="menu">Joins</span> is set to "Miter" this setting influences the looks of the miter joint. </td></tr>
</table>
@@ -290,18 +290,18 @@ Of course you can move these indicators to change the gradient to your liking. Y
<a href="#"><img src="../../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
<a id="i-o-m-save" name="i-o-m-save">Saving an icon</a></h3>
<p>There's your usual menu bar at the top, <span class="menu">File</span>, <span class="menu">Edit</span>, <span class="menu">Options</span>. The usage is pretty much self-explaining, so we'll only look at how to save your work.</p>
<p><span class="menu">File | Save As...</span> will save in a special Icon-O-Matic format that retains additional information like the names of paths, shapes and styles. These will be stripped from the actual icon once you export it to save space. It's a good idea to back-up your work like this, because without named objects everything's named "&lt;path&gt;/&lt;shape&gt;/&lt;style&gt;" which makes specific changes tedious.</p>
<p><span class="menu">File | Save as...</span> will save in a special Icon-O-Matic format that retains additional information like the names of paths, shapes and styles. These will be stripped from the actual icon once you export it to save space. It's a good idea to back-up your work like this, because without named objects everything's named "&lt;path&gt;/&lt;shape&gt;/&lt;style&gt;" which makes specific changes tedious.</p>
<p><span class="menu">File | Export As...</span> opens a familiar save panel with a file format pop-up menu at the bottom, offering these choices:</p>
<p><span class="menu">File | Export as...</span> opens a familiar save panel with a file format pop-up menu at the bottom, offering these choices:</p>
<table summary="file formats" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td>HVIF</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td>Haiku Vector Icon Format</td></tr>
<tr><td>HVIF RDef</td><td></td><td>Saves as resource used by programmers</td></tr>
<tr><td>HVIF Source Code</td><td></td><td>Saves as source code used by programmers</td></tr>
<tr><td>HVIF source code</td><td></td><td>Saves as source code used by programmers</td></tr>
<tr><td>SVG</td><td></td><td>Saves as SVG</td></tr>
<tr><td>PNG</td><td></td><td>Saves as a 64px sized PNG</td></tr>
<tr><td>PNG Set</td><td></td><td>Saves as 16, 32 and 64px sized PNGs</td></tr>
<tr><td>BEOS:ICON Attribute</td><td></td><td>Choose a file and set its icon attribute directly</td></tr>
<tr><td>META:ICON Attribute</td><td></td><td>Choose a file and attach the icon as mere meta data</td></tr>
<tr><td>PNG set</td><td></td><td>Saves as 16, 32 and 64px sized PNGs</td></tr>
<tr><td>BEOS:ICON attribute</td><td></td><td>Choose a file and set its icon attribute directly</td></tr>
<tr><td>META:ICON attribute</td><td></td><td>Choose a file and attach the icon as mere meta data</td></tr>
</table>
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ chainloader +1</pre></li>
<img src="../images/apps-images/installer.png" alt="installer.png" />
<p>In the first pop-up menu you choose the source for the installation. It can be a currently installed Haiku or can come from an install CD or USB drive, etc.<br />
The second pop-up menu specifies the target for the installation. This target partition/volume will be completely overwritten and has to be set aside beforehand by a partitioning tool like GParted.</p>
<p>Clicking the little expander widget will <i>Show Optional Packages</i>, if available, that you can choose to install in addition to the basic Haiku.</p>
<p>Clicking the little expander widget will <i>Show optional packages</i>, if available, that you can choose to install in addition to the basic Haiku.</p>
<p>You should do a last check if you really picked the right target before starting the installation process. Click on <span class="button">Setup partitions...</span> to open <a href="drivesetup.html">DriveSetup</a> and have a look at the naming and layout of the available volumes and partitions.</p>
<p><span class="button">Begin</span> starts the installation procedure, which basically copies everything but the <span class="path">home/</span> and <span class="path">common/</span> folder onto the target volume and makes it bootable.</p>
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@@ -66,19 +66,19 @@ They can also be moved with <span class="key">←</span> / <span class="key">→
<p>You can move the mouse pointer pixel by pixel with <span class="key">OPT</span> <span class="key"></span> / <span class="key"></span> / <span class="key"></span> / <span class="key"></span>.</p>
<p>Clicking on the pop-up menu gives you a number of options:</p>
<table summary="options" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td><span class="menu">Save Image</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">S</span></td><td> </td><td>Saves the current display as a resource file.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Copy Image</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">C</span></td><td> </td><td>Copies the current display to the clipboard.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Hide/Show Info</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">T</span></td><td> </td><td>Toggles the display of all the additional information.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Add a Crosshair</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">H</span></td><td> </td><td>Adds a crosshair you can drag around. </td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Remove a Crosshair</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">SHIFT</span> <span class="key">H</span></td><td> </td><td>Removes the last added crosshair.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Hide/Show Grid</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">G</span></td><td> </td><td>Toggles the overlayed grid.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Save image</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">S</span></td><td> </td><td>Saves the current display as a resource file.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Copy image</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">C</span></td><td> </td><td>Copies the current display to the clipboard.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Hide/Show info</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">T</span></td><td> </td><td>Toggles the display of all the additional information.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Add a crosshair</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">H</span></td><td> </td><td>Adds a crosshair you can drag around. </td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Remove a crosshair</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">SHIFT</span> <span class="key">H</span></td><td> </td><td>Removes the last added crosshair.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Hide/Show grid</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">G</span></td><td> </td><td>Toggles the overlayed grid.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Freeze/Unfreeze image</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">F</span></td><td> </td><td>Stops/continues updating the magnification area.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Stick Coordinates</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">I</span></td><td> </td><td>Keeps updating the magnification area, but don't follow the mouse pointer any more.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Make Square</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">/</span></td><td> </td><td>Reverts back to a square display after resizing the window.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Decrease Window Size</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">-</span></td><td> </td><td>Shrinks the magnified area around the mouse pointer.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Increase Window Size</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">+</span></td><td> </td><td>Enlarges the magnified area around the mouse pointer.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Decrease Pixel Size</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">,</span></td><td> </td><td>Lowers magnification.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Increase Pixel Size</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">.</span></td><td> </td><td>Increases magnification.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Stick coordinates</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">I</span></td><td> </td><td>Keeps updating the magnification area, but don't follow the mouse pointer any more.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Make square</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">/</span></td><td> </td><td>Reverts back to a square display after resizing the window.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Decrease window size</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">-</span></td><td> </td><td>Shrinks the magnified area around the mouse pointer.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Increase window size</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">+</span></td><td> </td><td>Enlarges the magnified area around the mouse pointer.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Decrease pixel size</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">,</span></td><td> </td><td>Lowers magnification.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Increase pixel size</span></td><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">.</span></td><td> </td><td>Increases magnification.</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
@@ -114,11 +114,11 @@ Both files can be created in the <span class="path">home/</span> folder and add
<a id="hints" name="hints">Hints for working with the Terminal</a></h2>
<ul><li><p>Dragging a file or folder from a Tracker window into the Terminal will insert its path at the location of the cursor. Dragging with the right mouse button offers additional actions in a context menu:</p>
<table summary="layout" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td><span class="menu">Insert Path</span></td><td> </td><td>Inserts the location of the file, same as drag&amp;dropping with the left mouse button.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Change Directory</span></td><td> </td><td>Changes to the folder of the dragged file.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Create Link Here</span></td><td> </td><td>Creates a link to the dragged file in the current working directory of the Terminal.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Move Here</span></td><td> </td><td>Moves the dragged file into the current working directory of the Terminal.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Copy Here</span></td><td> </td><td>Copies the dragged file into the current working directory of the Terminal.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Insert path</span></td><td> </td><td>Inserts the location of the file, same as drag&amp;dropping with the left mouse button.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Change directory</span></td><td> </td><td>Changes to the folder of the dragged file.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Create link here</span></td><td> </td><td>Creates a link to the dragged file in the current working directory of the Terminal.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Move here</span></td><td> </td><td>Moves the dragged file into the current working directory of the Terminal.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Copy here</span></td><td> </td><td>Copies the dragged file into the current working directory of the Terminal.</td></tr>
</table></li>
<li><p>You can open any file with its preferred application with the command <span class="cli">open <i>[filename]</i></span>. This also works with the representation of the current ("<span class="cli">.</span>") and parent ("<span class="cli">..</span>") folder which then open in a Tracker window. So, to open the current working directory, you type:</p>
<pre class="terminal">open .</pre>
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<p>A menu opens when you click on the Deskbar's top:</p>
<img src="images/deskbar-images/deskbar.png" alt="deskbar.png" />
<ul>
<li><p><b>About This System...</b> - Shows some basic information of the system, licenses and the credits of the Haiku project.</p></li>
<li><p><b>About this system...</b> - Shows some basic information of the system, licenses and the credits of the Haiku project.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Find...</b> - Opens the <a href="queries.html">Query</a> dialog.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Show Replicants</b> - Shows/hides the little <a href="gui.html#replicants">Replicant</a> widget you use to drag it around, remove or access its context menu.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Show replicants</b> - Shows/hides the little <a href="gui.html#replicants">Replicant</a> widget you use to drag it around, remove or access its context menu.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Mount</b> - Offers the same options as when invoked by right-clicking the Desktop (see <a href="tracker.html#mounting-volumes">Mounting Volumes</a>).</p></li>
<li><p><b>Deskbar Preferences...</b> - Opens a panel to configure the Deskbar (see below).</p></li>
<li><p><b>Shutdown</b> - Offers options to either <span class="menu">Restart System</span> or <span class="menu">Power Off</span>.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Recent Documents, Folders, Applications</b> - List of the last recently opened documents, folders and applications (see <span class="menu">Deskbar Preferences</span> below).</p></li>
<li><p><b>Applications, Demos, Deskbar Applets, Preferences</b> - List of installed applications, demos, applets and preferences (see <span class="menu">Deskbar Preferences</span> below).</p></li>
<li><p><b>Deskbar preferences...</b> - Opens a panel to configure the Deskbar (see below).</p></li>
<li><p><b>Shutdown</b> - Offers options to either <span class="menu">Restart system</span> or <span class="menu">Power off</span>.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Recent documents, folders, applications</b> - List of the last recently opened documents, folders and applications (see <span class="menu">Deskbar preferences</span> below).</p></li>
<li><p><b>Applications, Demos, Deskbar applets, Preferences</b> - List of installed applications, demos, applets and preferences (see <span class="menu">Deskbar preferences</span> below).</p></li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li><p><b>Menu</b><br />
Here you can set the number of recent documents, folders and applications that are shown in their menu in the Deskbar, or if you want to see them at all.<br />
The button <span class="button">Edit Menu...</span> opens the folder <span class="path">/boot/home/config/be/</span>. In it you'll find the files and folders that appear in the Deskbar, by default these are <span class="menu">Applications</span>, <span class="menu">Demos</span>, <span class="menu">Deskbar Applets</span>, and <span class="menu">Preferences</span>.<br />
The button <span class="button">Edit menu...</span> opens the folder <span class="path">/boot/home/config/be/</span>. In it you'll find the files and folders that appear in the Deskbar, by default these are <span class="menu">Applications</span>, <span class="menu">Demos</span>, <span class="menu">Deskbar applets</span>, and <span class="menu">Preferences</span>.<br />
You can delete or add entries like links to applications, documents or even queries by simply copying/deleting them to/from this folder.</p>
<p>It's even easier to simply drag a file, folder or saved query and drop it where you want it into the Deskbar.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Window</b></p>
@@ -58,16 +58,16 @@
<img src="../images/desktop-applets-images/launchbox.png" alt="launchbox.png" />
<p>All options are reached from the context menu:</p>
<table summary="layout" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td><span class="menu">Add Button Here</span></td><td style="width:10px;"> </td><td>Adds an empty button.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Clear Button</span></td><td> </td><td>Empties a button.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Remove Button</span></td><td> </td><td>Removes a button.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Add button here</span></td><td style="width:10px;"> </td><td>Adds an empty button.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Clear button</span></td><td> </td><td>Empties a button.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Remove button</span></td><td> </td><td>Removes a button.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Settings</span><br />
<span class="menu">- Horizontal Layout</span><br />
<span class="menu">- Horizontal layout</span><br />
<span class="menu">- Icon size</span><br />
<span class="menu">- Ignore Double-click</span><br />
<span class="menu">- Show Window Border</span><br />
<span class="menu">- Auto Raise</span><br />
<span class="menu">- Show On All Workspaces</span></td><td> </td><td class="onelinetop"><br />
<span class="menu">- Ignore double-click</span><br />
<span class="menu">- Show window border</span><br />
<span class="menu">- Auto raise</span><br />
<span class="menu">- Show on all workspaces</span></td><td> </td><td class="onelinetop"><br />
Aligns the buttons horizontally.<br />
Sets the icon size between 16 and 64 pixel.<br />
Launches the object only once, even when you (accidentally) double-click.<br />
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<p><br /></p>
<img src="../images/workspaces-images/workspaces.png" alt="workspaces.png" />
<p>You find the Workspaces applet with the other <span class="menu">Desktop Applets</span> in the Deskbar. It shows a miniature version of all workspaces. There are several options available from the context menu of the applet's window, which are all pretty self-explaining.<br />
<span class="menu">Change Workspace Count...</span> will open the <a href="../preferences/screen.html">Screen</a> preferences where you set the number of workspaces and their arrangement (how many rows and columns).</p>
<p>Since the applet is a <a href="../gui.html#replicants">Replicant</a>, you can resize the window as desired and then drag&amp;drop it by its handle onto the desktop (make sure <span class="menu">Show Replicants</span> is activated in the Deskbar menu). Hold <span class="key">SHIFT</span> while resizing to keep your screen's aspect ratio.</p>
<p>You find the Workspaces applet with the other <span class="menu">Desktop applets</span> in the Deskbar. It shows a miniature version of all workspaces. There are several options available from the context menu of the applet's window, which are all pretty self-explaining.<br />
<span class="menu">Change workspace count...</span> will open the <a href="../preferences/screen.html">Screen</a> preferences where you set the number of workspaces and their arrangement (how many rows and columns).</p>
<p>Since the applet is a <a href="../gui.html#replicants">Replicant</a>, you can resize the window as desired and then drag&amp;drop it by its handle onto the desktop (make sure <span class="menu">Show replicants</span> is activated in the Deskbar menu). Hold <span class="key">SHIFT</span> while resizing to keep your screen's aspect ratio.</p>
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<p><span class="path">/boot/home/config/add-ons/Translators/</span><br />
or<br />
<span class="path">/boot/common/add-ons/Translators/</span></p>
<p>This has another advantage: If the component you have installed messes things up (which is possible as you install hardware drivers like this, too) you are able to choose "<i>Disable User Add-Ons</i>" from the <a href="bootloader.html">Boot Loader</a> menu and are thus always able to boot without the offending component.</p>
<p>This has another advantage: If the component you have installed messes things up (which is possible as you install hardware drivers like this, too) you are able to choose "<i>Disable user add-ons</i>" from the <a href="bootloader.html">Boot Loader</a> menu and are thus always able to boot without the offending component.</p>
<p>Most of the time, however, you won't have to deal with these things at all, since every software that comes from a trusted source should include an installation routine that handles these things.<br />
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If you do want to know more about how things tick in Haiku, have a look at this layout chart of the system folder:
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<a id="preferred-app" name="preferred-app">The Preferred Application</a></h3>
<p>This pop-up menu shows a list of all applications that can handle this particular filetype. From here you can choose which program should open this specific file when it's double-clicked. You could, for example, change a HTML file's preferred application from the browser to a text editor while you're working on it. Every other HTML file still opens in the browser, only this particular one starts in your text editor.</p>
<p>The <span class="menu">Default Application</span> is the one that's set globally for that filetype. If you don't find the program you want to associate with this file in the pop-up menu, you'll again find the buttons <span class="button">Select...</span> and <span class="button">Same As...</span> which do the similar thing described under "The File Type" above.</p>
<p>The <span class="menu">Default application</span> is the one that's set globally for that filetype. If you don't find the program you want to associate with this file in the pop-up menu, you'll again find the buttons <span class="button">Select...</span> and <span class="button">Same as...</span> which do the similar thing described under "The File Type" above.</p>
<h3>
<a href="#"><img src="../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
<a id="icon" name="icon">The Icon</a></h3>
<p>If you're wondering why the icon well on the top right is empty: Icons are normally inherited from the system default for that filetype. You can open the <span class="app">Filetype Add-On</span> of a file that contains an icon and drag&amp;drop it into your file's icon well. Or you double-click the icon well and create or edit your own icon. For more info on icons and how to create your own, see topic <a href="applications/icon-o-matic.html">Icon-O-Matic</a>.</p>
<p>If you're wondering why the icon well on the top right is empty: Icons are normally inherited from the system default for that filetype. You can open the <span class="app">Filetype add-on</span> of a file that contains an icon and drag&amp;drop it into your file's icon well. Or you double-click the icon well and create or edit your own icon. For more info on icons and how to create your own, see topic <a href="applications/icon-o-matic.html">Icon-O-Matic</a>.</p>
<h2>
<a href="#"><img src="../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
<a id="settings-apps" name="settings-apps">Special settings for applications</a></h2>
<p>If you invoke the <span class="app">Filetype Add-On</span> on an executable (here: <span class="app">StyledEdit</span>), you'll get a different dialog:</p>
<p>If you invoke the <span class="app">Filetype add-on</span> on an executable (here: <span class="app">StyledEdit</span>), you'll get a different dialog:</p>
<img src="images/filetypes-images/filetype-addon-stylededit.png" alt="filetype-addon-stylededit.png" />
<p>On top, you'll see, instead of a standardized MIME string, the unique application signature. With it, the system finds the program wherever it's installed.</p>
<p>Below it are several flags, controlling the app's behaviour:</p>
<table summary="layout" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td><span class="menu">Single Launch</span></td><td> </td><td>Only one instance of the app can be running per executable file. If you have two copies of that app, however, they can run side by side.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Multiple Launch</span></td><td> </td><td>Many instances of the app can run simultaneously.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Exclusive Launch</span></td><td> </td><td>Really only one instance with that app's signature is allowed to run at a time.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Args Only</span></td><td> </td><td>Indicates the app doesn't respond to messages.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Background App</span></td><td> </td><td>The app won't appear in <a href="twitcher.html">Twitcher</a> or the list of running apps of the Deskbar.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Single launch</span></td><td> </td><td>Only one instance of the app can be running per executable file. If you have two copies of that app, however, they can run side by side.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Multiple launch</span></td><td> </td><td>Many instances of the app can run simultaneously.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Exclusive launch</span></td><td> </td><td>Really only one instance with that app's signature is allowed to run at a time.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Args only</span></td><td> </td><td>Indicates the app doesn't respond to messages.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Background app</span></td><td> </td><td>The app won't appear in <a href="twitcher.html">Twitcher</a> or the list of running apps of the Deskbar.</td></tr>
</table>
<p>Then there's the list of supported filetypes. You can add (and remove) filetypes if you think the application can handle them. As a consequence, the app will appear in the menu for preferred applications or Tracker's <span class="menu">Open with...</span> context menu when you right-click on a file of that type.</p>
<p>At the bottom are version and copyright information. Like the application signature, they are filled in by the app's author and shouldn't be altered.</p>
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<li><p>The "zoom" button (or <span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">Z</span>). In most applications, this will expand a window to maximum size. It doesn't have to, however. Tracker windows, for example, will resize to best fit the contents.</p></li>
<li><p>The resize corner. Dragging anywhere else on a window's border will move the window.</p></li>
</ol>
<div class="box-info">While holding <span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span>, you can click anywhere into a window to move it with the left mouse button; the right mouse button sends it to the back.</div>
<h2>
<a href="#"><img src="../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
<a id="move-resize" name="move-resize">A quick way to move or resize windows</a></h2>
<p>Moving and resizing windows is a large part of interacting with several concurrently running applications. Instead of aiming at the small yellow title tab or the even tinier window border, there's a more convenient way to move a window. Also, additionally to its small size, the resize corner has another limitation: It only allows resizing at and in the direction of the lower right corner.</p>
<p>To address these issues, Haiku provides a neat solution using the window management key combo <span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> and the mouse. See also chapter <a href="keyboard-shortcuts.html#general">Shortcuts and key combinations</a> for more shortcuts concerning window management.</p>
<img src="images/gui-images/resizing.png" alt="resizing.png" />
<p>Holding down <span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> will highlight the window borders nearest to the mouse pointer. Move the mouse in the direction of another border to change the target. Click and dragging with the <i>right mouse button</i> will resize the window along the highlighted border(s).</p>
<p>Hold down <span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> and click and drag with the <i>left mouse button</i> anywhere in a window to move it around. A quick click with the <i>right mouse button</i> sends it to the back.</p>
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<a id="favorites-recent" name="favorites-recent">Favorites and recent folders</a></h3>
<p>The <span class="menu">Favorites</span> menu in open and save panels provides recently visited folders and favorite locations that you can set up yourself. As indicated by the little arrow, you can also use these locations to navigate further down the hierarchy via submenus.</p>
<img src="images/gui-images/favorites.png" alt="favorites.png" />
<p>To add a Favorite, you simply navigate to your destination and choose <span class="menu">Favorites | Add Current Folder</span>. From now on it will appear in every open/save panel. To remove a Favorite, choose <span class="menu">Favorites | Configure Favorites...</span> and delete its entry.<br />
<p>To add a Favorite, you simply navigate to your destination and choose <span class="menu">Favorites | Add current folder</span>. From now on it will appear in every open/save panel. To remove a Favorite, choose <span class="menu">Favorites | Configure favorites...</span> and delete its entry.<br />
All Favorites are kept in <span class="path">/boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/Go/</span>. So you might as well add and remove links to files and folders there directly.</p>
<h2>
<a href="#"><img src="../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
<a id="replicants" name="replicants">Replicants</a></h2>
<p>Replicants are small self-contained parts of applications that can be integrated into other programs. Provided Deskbar's option to <span class="menu">Show Replicants</span> is activated, you'll recognize a replicantable part of an application by its small handle, normally in the bottom right corner:</p>
<p>Replicants are small self-contained parts of applications that can be integrated into other programs. Provided Deskbar's option to <span class="menu">Show replicants</span> is activated, you'll recognize a replicantable part of an application by its small handle, normally in the bottom right corner:</p>
<img src="../images/gui-images/replicant.png" alt="replicant.png" />
<p>The most prominent place that accepts Replicants is the Desktop: You simply drag&amp;drop the little handle onto it. From now on it's part of the Desktop and the Replicant's originating app doesn't have to be started for it to work.<br />
A right-click on a Replicant handle offers a context menu to show the originating app's <span class="menu">About</span> window and to <span class="menu">Remove Replicant</span>.</p>
<p>The most prominent place that accepts Replicants is the Desktop: You simply drag &amp; drop the little handle onto it. From now on it's part of the Desktop and the Replicant's originating app doesn't have to be started for it to work.<br />
A right-click on a Replicant handle offers a context menu to show the originating app's <span class="menu">About</span> window and to <span class="menu">Remove replicant</span>.</p>
<div class="box-info">Should you experience difficulties with a Replicant on the Desktop and just can't get rid of it, delete <span class="path">~/config/settings/Tracker/tracker_shelf</span>. Unfortunately, this will remove <i>all</i> Replicants from the Desktop.</div>
<p>Examples for replicatable applications are the graphs of the <a href="applications/activitymonitor.html">ActivityMonitor</a>, the <a href="workspaces.html">Workspaces applet</a> or <a href="applications/deskcalc.html">DeskCalc</a>.</p>
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<table summary="shortcuts" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">
<tr><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">Fx</span></td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td>Switches to <a href="workspaces.html">Workspace</a> X (<span class="key">Fx</span> is the function key corresponding to that workspace). Take the active window with you by adding <span class="key">SHIFT</span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key"></span> / <span class="key"></span> / <span class="key"></span> / <span class="key"></span></td><td></td><td>Navigates spatially the rows/columns of the available workspaces. Add <span class="key">SHIFT</span> to take the active window with you.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> + left mouse</td><td></td><td>Click and drag with left mouse button to move a window (see chapter <a href="gui.html#move-resize">GUI</a>).</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> + right mouse</td><td></td><td>Click and drag with right mouse button to resize a window (see chapter <a href="gui.html#move-resize">GUI</a>).</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">Z</span></td><td></td><td>Zooms a window to an alternative size (maximum size for most applications).</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">M</span></td><td></td><td>Minimizes the active window.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">H</span></td><td></td><td>Hides (minimizes) all windows of the active application.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">F</span></td><td></td><td>Pulls the active window to the front (only applicable with the mouse setting <a href="preferences/mouse.html">Focus Follows Mouse</a>).</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">B</span></td><td></td><td>Sends the active window to the back. </td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">TAB</span></td><td></td><td>Hold down to bring up the <a href="twitcher.html">Twitcher</a>.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">DEL</span></td><td></td><td>Opens the <a href="teammonitor.html">Team Monitor</a>.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">ESC</span></td><td></td><td>Enters the menu bar (leave with <span class="key">ESC</span>).</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">C</span></td><td></td><td>Copies the selection to the clipboard.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">X</span></td><td></td><td>Cuts the selection to the clipboard.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">V</span></td><td></td><td>Pastes the clipboard's contents.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">W</span></td><td></td><td>Closes the active window.</td></tr><tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">Z</span></td><td></td><td>Zooms a window to an alternative size (maximum size for most applications).</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">M</span></td><td></td><td>Minimizes the active window.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">H</span></td><td></td><td>Hides (minimizes) all windows of the active application.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">F</span></td><td></td><td>Pulls the active window to the front (only applicable with the mouse setting <a href="preferences/mouse.html">Focus Follows Mouse</a>).</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">CTRL</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">B</span></td><td></td><td>Sends the active window to the back. </td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">W</span></td><td></td><td>Closes the active window.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">Q</span></td><td></td><td>Quits an application.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="key">PRINT</span></td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td>Takes a screenshot with zero delay and launches the <a href="applications/screenshot.html">Screenshot</a> panel.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="key">SHIFT</span> <span class="key">PRINT</span></td><td></td><td>Takes a screenshot silently (without opening the panel), while still respecting the last used settings.</td></tr>
@@ -123,7 +126,8 @@ are stored in the file <span class="path">~/.bash_history</span>. Press <span cl
<tr><td><span class="key">ALT</span></td><td></td><td>Adds or removes the item you're clicking on from the selection.</td></tr>
</table>
<p>In a Tracker window, if you just start typing, Tracker scrolls to and selects the file that best fits your incremental search. If there's no file starting with your typed letters, files that contain the search string anywhere in their name or other displayed attributes are selected. This search is <i>not</i> case-sensitive.<br />
The letters you type appear at the bottom-left, where normally the number of items is listed. After a second it reverts back and you could start a new incremental search.</p>
The letters you type appear at the bottom-left, where normally the number of items is listed. After a second it reverts back and you could start a new incremental search.<br />
Instead of jumping to the first occurrence of your search string, Tracker can be configured to filter out all non-matching files. See the topic on <a href="tracker.html#tracker-preferences">type-ahead filtering</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@
<h3>
<a href="#"><img src="../../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
Glyph hinting</h3>
<p>An activated <span class="menu">Glyph hinting</span> aligns all letters in such a way that their vertical and horizontal edges rest exactly between two pixels. The result is a perfect contrast, especially when dealing with black on white. Text appears crisper. There's also a setting for <span class="menu">Monospaced Fonts Only</span> that's especially helpful with low resolution devices like netbooks. Small fonts can look pretty bad when hinting is turned on, but with this setting you still have the advantage of hinting for text editors and Terminal.</p>
<p>An activated <span class="menu">Glyph hinting</span> aligns all letters in such a way that their vertical and horizontal edges rest exactly between two pixels. The result is a perfect contrast, especially when dealing with black on white. Text appears crisper. There's also a setting for <span class="menu">Monospaced fonts only</span> that's especially helpful with low resolution devices like netbooks. Small fonts can look pretty bad when hinting is turned on, but with this setting you still have the advantage of hinting for text editors and Terminal.</p>
<p>See the difference hinting makes with these magnified screenshots:</p>
<table summary="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../../images/prefs-images/appearance-glyph-off.png" alt="appearance-glyph-off.png" /><br />Hinting: off</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../../images/prefs-images/appearance-glyph-on.png" alt="appearance-glyph-on.png" /><br />Hinting: on</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../images/prefs-images/appearance-glyph-off.png" alt="appearance-glyph-off.png" /><br />Hinting: off</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../images/prefs-images/appearance-glyph-on.png" alt="appearance-glyph-on.png" /><br />Hinting: on</td></tr>
</table>
<p>It should be pointed out that all the <span class="app">Magnify</span> windows on this page are of course rendered themselves with the different options as well. So, you get a real world impression of the settings by comparing, for example, the bold yellow tab title or the text "33 x 15 @ 8 pixels/pixel".</p>
@@ -86,13 +86,13 @@ Antialiasing type</h3>
<span class="menu">LCD subpixel</span> does an even better job, especially with (high resolution) LCD monitors. Instead of the intensity of a pixel, it changes its color which moves an edge by a fraction of a pixel, because LCD displays produce every pixel with a red, green and blue component.</p>
<p>Again, the two different methods with magnified screenshots:</p>
<table summary="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../../images/prefs-images/appearance-glyph-off.png" alt="appearance-glyph-off.png" /><br />Grayscale, Hinting: off</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../../images/prefs-images/appearance-subpixel.png" alt="appearance-subpixel.png" /><br />LCD subpixel, Hinting: off</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../images/prefs-images/appearance-glyph-off.png" alt="appearance-glyph-off.png" /><br />Grayscale, Hinting: off</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../images/prefs-images/appearance-subpixel.png" alt="appearance-subpixel.png" /><br />LCD subpixel, Hinting: off</td></tr>
</table>
<p>Subpixel based antialiasing adds a slight colored shine to objects. Something not everyone tolerates. In Haiku you can mix the two antialiasing methods and find the right setting for you by using a slider.</p>
<div class="box-info">The subpixel based antialiasing in combination with the glyph hinting is subject of a software patent and is therefore not available by default. Depending on where in the world you live, you may get an unlocked version. Sorry about that. Talk with your representative.</div>
<p>If you do activate hinting plus LCD subpixel rendering by changing the source and recompiling, this is how it looks compared to hinting with Grayscale:</p>
<table summary="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">
<tr><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../../images/prefs-images/appearance-glyph-on.png" alt="appearance-glyph-on.png" /><br />Grayscale, Hinting: on</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../../images/prefs-images/appearance-glyph-on-subpixel.png" alt="appearance-glyph-on-subpixel.png" /><br />LCD subpixel, Hinting: on</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../images/prefs-images/appearance-glyph-on.png" alt="appearance-glyph-on.png" /><br />Grayscale, Hinting: on</td><td style="width:15px;"></td><td style="text-align:center; font-style:italic"><img src="../images/prefs-images/appearance-glyph-on-subpixel.png" alt="appearance-glyph-on-subpixel.png" /><br />LCD subpixel, Hinting: on</td></tr>
</table>
<p><br /></p>
<p>At the bottom of the panel are two buttons:</p>
@@ -62,25 +62,25 @@
<p>Depending on its capabilities, each Translator offers different settings. At least you'll get an <span class="button">Info...</span> button that opens a window with the credits and the installation path.<br />
The following table gives an overview of the default Translators and their most useful options.</p>
<table summary="translators" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td><span class="menu">BMP Images</span></td><td>24bit, uncompressed, no transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">EXR Images</span></td><td><acronym title="Industrial Light &amp; Magic">ILM</acronym>'s high dynamic-range (HDR) format</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">GIF Images</span></td><td>8bit, lossless compression, transparency<br />
<tr><td><span class="menu">BMP images</span></td><td>24bit, uncompressed, no transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">EXR images</span></td><td><acronym title="Industrial Light &amp; Magic">ILM</acronym>'s high dynamic-range (HDR) format</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">GIF images</span></td><td>8bit, lossless compression, transparency<br />
You can reduce the filesize by limiting the number of used colors and the palette.<br />
You can write images with transparency, either by automatically using the alpha channel or by setting the RGB value that will be transparent by hand.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">JPEG2000 Images</span></td><td>24bit, compressed, no transparency<br />
<tr><td><span class="menu">JPEG2000 images</span></td><td>24bit, compressed, no transparency<br />
Here, you normally only care about the output quality.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">JPEG Images</span></td><td>24bit, compressed, no transparency<br />
<tr><td><span class="menu">JPEG images</span></td><td>24bit, compressed, no transparency<br />
Besides the output quality you can also set a smoothing that will lessen compression artefacts but can blur the picture a little.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">PCX Images</span></td><td>24bit, uncompressed, no transparency, PC Paintbrush Exchange format</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">PNG Images</span></td><td>32bit, lossless compression, transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">PPM Images</span></td><td>24bit, uncompressed, no transparency, Portable PixMap format</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">RAW Images</span></td><td>up to 48bit, uncompressed, no transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">RTF Text Files</span></td><td>Formatted text</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">SGI Images</span></td><td>24bit, optional lossless compression, transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">StyledEdit Files</span></td><td>Formatted text</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">TGA Images</span></td><td>32bit, optional lossless compression, transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">TIFF Images</span></td><td>24bit, optional lossless compression, layers, transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">WonderBrush Images</span></td><td>32bit, layers, transparency, vector/pixel data</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">PCX images</span></td><td>24bit, uncompressed, no transparency, PC Paintbrush Exchange format</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">PNG images</span></td><td>32bit, lossless compression, transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">PPM images</span></td><td>24bit, uncompressed, no transparency, Portable PixMap format</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">RAW images</span></td><td>up to 48bit, uncompressed, no transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">RTF text files</span></td><td>Formatted text</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">SGI images</span></td><td>24bit, optional lossless compression, transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">StyledEdit files</span></td><td>Formatted text</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">TGA images</span></td><td>32bit, optional lossless compression, transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">TIFF images</span></td><td>24bit, optional lossless compression, layers, transparency</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">WonderBrush images</span></td><td>32bit, layers, transparency, vector/pixel data</td></tr>
</table>
<p><br /></p>
<div class="box-info">Screenshots, charts, black&amp;white drawings and other images with few used colors, as well as small pictures are best saved as GIF (up to 256 colors) or PNG (millions of colors). JPEG, for example, introduces compression artefacts without gain in smaller filesize.</div>
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@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ The configuration is done in the E-Mail preference panel.</p>
<p>Let's go through the process of setting up an e-mail account.<br />
You start by clicking the <span class="button">Add</span> button to create a new, unnamed account. This opens a panel where you fill in your account info:</p>
<img src="../images/prefs-images/e-mail-new-account.png" alt="e-mail-new-account.png" />
<p>First, declare the <i>Account Type</i> which is either <span class="menu">Receive Mail Only</span>, <span class="menu">Send Mail Only</span>, or the most usual type, <span class="menu">Send and Receive Mail</span>. Then you set how you get your mail, via <span class="menu">POP3</span> or <span class="menu">IMAP</span>.</p>
<p>Now you enter your <i>E-mail Address</i>, <i>Login Name</i> and <i>Password</i>, give an <i>Account Name</i> under which it will be known under Haiku and your <i>Real Name</i>.</p>
<p>First, declare the <i>Account type</i> which is either <span class="menu">Receive mail only</span>, <span class="menu">Send mail only</span>, or the most usual type, <span class="menu">Send and receive mail</span>. Then you set how you get your mail, via <span class="menu">POP3</span> or <span class="menu">IMAP</span>.</p>
<p>Now you enter your <i>E-mail address</i>, <i>Login name</i> and <i>Password</i>, give an <i>Account name</i> under which it will be known under Haiku and your <i>Real name</i>.</p>
<p>If your account is from a major e-mail provider, Haiku already knows all technical details like server IP addresses and the following information is already filled in automatically. If that is not the case, just follow this guide and fill in the details to your e-mail account accordingly.</p>
<h2>
@@ -85,11 +85,11 @@ You start by clicking the <span class="button">Add</span> button to create a new
<p>Click on <span class="menu">Incoming</span> under your account's name to set up how e-mails are received.</p>
<img src="../images/prefs-images/e-mail-in.png" alt="e-mail-in.png" />
<p>From the pop-up menu you choose the protocol used by your provider. <span class="menu">IMAP</span> and <span class="menu">POP3</span> are supported.</p>
<p>Next is the <span class="menu">Mail Server</span> address for incoming mails. If your provider needs you to log into a specific port, you add that to the address, separated by a colon. For example, <tt>pop.your-provider.org:1400</tt>.</p>
<p>Then you enter your login information, <i>Username</i> and <i>Password</i>, and if necessary change the <i>Login Type</i> from the default <span class="menu">Plain Text</span> to <span class="menu">APOP</span> for authentication.</p>
<p>Next is the <span class="menu">Mail server</span> address for incoming mails. If your provider needs you to log into a specific port, you add that to the address, separated by a colon. For example, <tt>pop.your-provider.org:1400</tt>.</p>
<p>Then you enter your login information, <i>Username</i> and <i>Password</i>, and if necessary change the <i>Login type</i> from the default <span class="menu">Plain text</span> to <span class="menu">APOP</span> for authentication.</p>
<p>If you use <i>POP3</i> and retrieve mails of this account from different computers, you may want to activate the option to <span class="menu">Leave mail on server</span> and only <span class="menu">Remove mail from server when deleted</span> locally.</p>
<p>If you use <i>IMAP</i> instead, you have the option to <span class="menu">Remove mail from server when deleted</span> locally. You can specify a <span class="menu">Top Mailbox Folder</span> to only synchronize with a specific folder and its subfolders.</p>
<p>The <span class="menu">New Mail Notification</span> offers different methods to announce the arrival of new mail. Try different settings to see what works best for you.</p>
<p>If you use <i>IMAP</i> instead, you have the option to <span class="menu">Remove mail from server when deleted</span> locally. You can specify a <span class="menu">Top mailbox folder</span> to only synchronize with a specific folder and its subfolders.</p>
<p>The <span class="menu">New mail notification</span> offers different methods to announce the arrival of new mail. Try different settings to see what works best for you.</p>
<p>You can change the <i>Location</i> of your inbox (default: <span class="path">/boot/home/mail/in/</span>), which is useful if you'd like to separate the mails from different accounts into their own folders. However, queries let you sort things out just as well.</p>
<p>Last on this page, you can opt to only <span class="menu">Partially download messages</span> that are larger than a certain size. This will only get the header and you can decide if you want to download the rest of the message plus possible attachments after seeing the subject and who sent it. Useful if you have a slow connection.</p>
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@ You start by clicking the <span class="button">Add</span> button to create a new
<h2>
<a href="#"><img src="../../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
<a id="filters" name="filters">Setting up e-mail filters</a></h2>
<p>If you want to filter your incoming email, you click on <span class="menu">E-Mail Filters</span> under your account's name to set up automatic sorting. You can add any number of filters that are applied one after the other. You can rearrange them by drag&amp;dropping them to their new position.<br />
Besides the <span class="menu">R5 Daemon Filter</span> that's used for backward compatibility, there are two other <span class="menu">Incoming Mail Filters</span> you can add.</p>
<p>If you want to filter your incoming email, you click on <span class="menu">E-Mail filters</span> under your account's name to set up automatic sorting. You can add any number of filters that are applied one after the other. You can rearrange them by drag&amp;dropping them to their new position.<br />
Besides the <span class="menu">R5 daemon filter</span> that's used for backward compatibility, there are two other <span class="menu">Incoming mail filters</span> you can add.</p>
<h3>
<a href="#"><img src="../../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Spam Filter</h3>
<p>The spam filter uses statistical methods to classify a mail as unwanted spam. It assigns a value between 0 and 1 to it and you can decide what are the limits for a genuine mail and what will be considered spam.<br />
You can have that spam rating added to the start of the subject.<br />
Also, the spam filter can learn from all incoming e-mail. Of course, you'll have to teach it by sorting out the false positives, mails that were mistakenly marked as spam. You'll find more on that when we discuss the application <span class="app">Mail</span>.</p>
<p>Together with the following <span class="menu">Match Header</span> filter, you're able to automatically sort out detected spam mails.</p>
<p>Together with the following <span class="menu">Match header</span> filter, you're able to automatically sort out detected spam mails.</p>
<h3>
<a href="#"><img src="../../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ With the first text field you specify which header to check against. These are a
<td>the e-mail address of the sender</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">To</span></td><td> </td>
<td>your e-mail address (different for each e-mail account)</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Reply To</span></td><td> </td>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Reply to</span></td><td> </td>
<td>the e-mail address replies are sent to</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">When</span></td><td> </td>
<td>the date and time the mail was received</td></tr>
@@ -146,9 +146,9 @@ With the first text field you specify which header to check against. These are a
<td>is set by the sender's e-mail program (e.g. "urgent")</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Thread</span></td><td> </td>
<td>essentially the same as "Subject", but without things like Re: or Fwd:</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Classification Group</span></td><td> </td>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Classification group</span></td><td> </td>
<td>depending on what the spam filter classified it as, this will either be empty (if uncertain) or contain the word "Genuine" or "Spam"</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Spam/Genuine Estimate</span></td><td> </td>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Spam/Genuine estimate</span></td><td> </td>
<td>this is a numerical estimate that the spam filter assigned to the e-mail. They are shown in scientific notation, where 1.065e-12 translates to 1.065 divided by 10 to the 12th power, which in this case translates to 0.000000000001065.</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The second text field holds your search pattern. It accepts <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression" class="external free" title="Wikipedia: Regular expression" rel="nofollow">regular expressions</a> which gives it great flexibility, while unfortunately complicating things a bit. Read up on it a bit, it's well worth it and simple search patterns aren't <i>that</i> complicated at all.</p>
@@ -165,13 +165,13 @@ Outgoing Mail Filters</h3>
<a id="settings" name="settings">Setting up the Mail Service</a></h2>
<p>Now that your incoming and outgoing mail servers (and maybe some filters, too), are configured, you have to tell the Mail Service that does all the actual checking and fetching how to do its job.</p>
<img src="../images/prefs-images/e-mail-settings.png" alt="e-mail-settings.png" />
<p>Under <i>Mail Checking</i> you configure the interval at which the account's mail server is probed for new mail.<br />
If you're on a dial-up connection, you may want to do that <span class="menu">Only When Dial-Up is Connected</span> and also <span class="menu">Schedule Outgoing Mail When Dial-Up is Disconnected</span> to avoid dialing automatically in regularly only to check for mail.</p>
<p>The Mail Service has a status window which you can set to show up <span class="menu">Never</span>, <span class="menu">While Sending</span>, <span class="menu">While Sending and Receiving</span> or <span class="menu">Always</span>.</p>
<p>Make sure to <span class="menu">Start Mail Services on Startup</span> or there will be no mail_daemon running to do your bidding...</p>
<p>Under <i>Mail checking</i> you configure the interval at which the account's mail server is probed for new mail.<br />
If you're on a dial-up connection, you may want to do that <span class="menu">Only when dial-up is connected</span> and also <span class="menu">Schedule outgoing mail when dial-up is disconnected</span> to avoid dialing automatically in regularly only to check for mail.</p>
<p>The Mail Service has a status window which you can set to show up <span class="menu">Never</span>, <span class="menu">While sending</span>, <span class="menu">While sending and receiving</span> or <span class="menu">Always</span>.</p>
<p>Make sure to <span class="menu">Start mail services on startup</span> or there will be no mail_daemon running to do your bidding...</p>
<img src="../images/prefs-images/e-mail-mailbox.png" alt="e-mail-mailbox.png" />
<p><span class="menu">Edit Mailbox Menu...</span> will open the folder <span class="path">/boot/home/config/Mail/Menu Links/</span>. All folders or queries (!) or their links put into this folder will appear in the context menu of the mailbox icon of the Mail Services in the Deskbar tray.</p>
<p>From that menu, you can also <span class="menu">Create New Message...</span>, <span class="menu">Check For Mail Now</span> or <span class="menu">Edit Preferences...</span>.</p>
<p><span class="menu">Edit mailbox menu...</span> will open the folder <span class="path">/boot/home/config/Mail/Menu Links/</span>. All folders or queries (!) or their links put into this folder will appear in the context menu of the mailbox icon of the Mail Services in the Deskbar tray.</p>
<p>From that menu, you can also <span class="menu">Create new message...</span>, <span class="menu">Check for mail now</span> or <span class="menu">Edit preferences...</span>.</p>
<p>The mailbox icon itself shows if there are unread messages (status "New") when there are envelopes inside.</p>
</div>
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@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ Thus, the Keymap preferences are not only for configuring your local keymap, but
<p>Then there are the keys that are marked with a blue background. These keys are called <i>Dead Keys</i> that can change the key you press after that. If you click on such a blue key with your mouse, those changeable keys light up yellow. Click again and everything's back to normal. Examples are é, ñ, ó or ë.</p>
<p>Below the keyboard representation are two more options:</p>
<table summary="layout" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td><span class="menu">Select Dead Keys</span></td><td> </td><td>for setting the above mentioned blue keys.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Switch Shortcut Key...</span></td><td> </td><td>for using the shortcut key in Windows/Linux mode, i.e. <span class="key">CONTROL</span> (normally <span class="key">CTRL</span>) or Haiku mode, i.e. <span class="key">COMMAND</span> (normally <span class="key">ALT</span>).</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Select dead keys</span></td><td> </td><td>for setting the above mentioned blue keys.</td></tr>
<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Switch shortcut key...</span></td><td> </td><td>for using the shortcut key in Windows/Linux mode, i.e. <span class="key">CONTROL</span> (normally <span class="key">CTRL</span>) or Haiku mode, i.e. <span class="key">COMMAND</span> (normally <span class="key">ALT</span>).</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The lists on the left offer the available pre-configured keymaps of the system, and below that, if available, user-defined maps. You can change a keymap via drag&amp;drop in the keyboard representation: a left-click-drag copies a key, a right-click-drag exchanges the two keys.<br />
When you're done you can save the result from the menu <span class="menu">File | Save...</span>. Your modified map will only appear in the user-defined list if it's stored in <span class="path">~/config/settings/Keymap/</span>. Otherwise you'll have to manually load it via <span class="menu">File | Open...</span>.</p>
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@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
<p>On the left side, you can set the day of the month by simply clicking on it in the calendar. You change the month and year by clicking on it and using the up/down arrows to the right or the cursor keys on your keyboard.</p>
<p>Similarly, you set the time. There are two modes for the clock:</p>
<table summary="layout" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td><span class="menu">Local Time</span></td><td> </td><td>to display your local time.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">Local time</span></td><td> </td><td>to display your local time.</td></tr>
<tr><td><span class="menu">GMT</span></td><td> </td><td>to display Greenwich Mean Time.</td></tr>
</table>
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
<a href="#"><img src="../../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
<a id="timezone" name="timezone">Timezone</a></h2>
<img src="../images/prefs-images/time-timezone.png" alt="time-timezone.png" />
<p>Simply find and choose your location from the pop-up menu and the list of cities and press <span class="button">Set Time Zone</span> to set your zone.</p>
<p>Simply find and choose your location from the pop-up menu and the list of cities and press <span class="button">Set time zone</span> to set your zone.</p>
<p><span class="button">Revert</span> brings back the settings that were active when you started the Time preferences.</p>
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<p>Besides the gray background, result windows work exactly like any other Tracker window. Some things are worth noting:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>You can open the location of a file or folder by double clicking on its path attribute.</p></li>
<li><p>With <span class="menu">File | Edit Query</span> or <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">G</span> you get back to your Find window to refine your query.</p></li>
<li><p>With <span class="menu">File | Edit query</span> or <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">G</span> you get back to your Find window to refine your query.</p></li>
<li><p>A query is live, i.e. if a file that matches your search criteria appears or disappears from your system, this change is reflected in your results in real-time.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>You can assign a sensible attribute layout for query results of a specific filetype. Open a folder containing files of the filetype you'd like to create a template for and arrange the attributes how you'd like to have query results presented. Copy this layout with <span class="menu">Attributes | Copy Layout</span>.</p>
<p>Open <span class="path">/boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/DefaultQueryTemplates</span>, create a new folder named <i>group/filetype</i>, replacing the slash with an underscore, e.g. "audio_x-mp3". Open the new folder and paste in the previously copied layout with <span class="menu">Attributes | Paste Layout</span>.</p>
<p>You can assign a sensible attribute layout for query results of a specific filetype. Open a folder containing files of the filetype you'd like to create a template for and arrange the attributes how you'd like to have query results presented. Copy this layout with <span class="menu">Attributes | Copy layout</span>.</p>
<p>Open <span class="path">/boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/DefaultQueryTemplates</span>, create a new folder named <i>group/filetype</i>, replacing the slash with an underscore, e.g. "audio_x-mp3". Open the new folder and paste in the previously copied layout with <span class="menu">Attributes | Paste layout</span>.</p>
<h2>
<a href="#"><img src="../images/up.png" style="border:none;float:right" alt="index" /></a>
<a id="query-template" name="query-template">Query Templates</a></h2>
<p>If you double click a saved query, the file search is at once started and the result window opens immediately. However, you may not want to search with these <i>exact</i> search parameters, but use it as starting point to only slightly tweak the formula.<br />
By using the <span class="menu">Save Query as Template</span> menu item (see <a href="#find-window">(1) in screenshot</a> at the top) or drag&amp;dropping the icon (10) anywhere with the right mouse button, you can create just such a template. Double clicking it won't open a result window, but the Find panel, giving you the opportunity to quickly change search strings or add/remove attributes.</p>
By using the <span class="menu">Save query as template</span> menu item (see <a href="#find-window">(1) in screenshot</a> at the top) or drag&amp;dropping the icon (10) anywhere with the right mouse button, you can create just such a template. Double clicking it won't open a result window, but the Find panel, giving you the opportunity to quickly change search strings or add/remove attributes.</p>
<p>Wherever you choose to save query templates, they'll be listed in the Find panel's menu of recent queries.</p>
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<a id="mounting-volumes" name="mounting-volumes">Mounting Volumes</a></h2>
<p>In order to access a harddisk, CD, USB stick etc., you first have to mount the volume, that is, let the system know it's there. This is done with a right-click on the Desktop or an already mounted volume (like the boot disk) and choosing the volume from the <span class="menu">Mount</span> submenu. You find the same <span class="menu">Mount</span> menu in the Deskbar.</p>
<img src="images/tracker-images/mount-settings.png" alt="drill-down.png" />
<p>There are also <span class="menu">Mount Settings</span> so you don't have to mount everything manually after every bootup.<br />
<p>There are also <span class="menu">Settings</span> so you don't have to mount everything manually after every bootup.<br />
The above settings will automatically mount any storage device you connect/insert and also mount all disks on bootup that were mounted previously.</p>
<div class="box-warning">Before you disconnect e.g. a harddrive or USB stick, make sure you have successfully unmounted the volume. This guarantees that all data transfer has finished. Otherwise you may lose data or corrupt the disk!</div>
@@ -116,19 +116,19 @@ This type-ahead filtering is set in the <a href="#tracker-preferences.html">Trac
<img src="images/tracker-images/window-menu.png" alt="window-menu.png" />
<p>Tracker windows offer three different viewing modes from the <span class="menu">Window</span> menu:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><b>Icon View</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">1</span>) - Big icons, you can change the size from the submenu or in/decrease their size with <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">+</span>/<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">-</span>.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Mini Icon View</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">2</span>) - Small icons.</p></li>
<li><p><b>List View</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">3</span>) - A detailed list of your files enabling you to show/hide available <i>attributes</i>. (See topic <a href="attributes.html">Attributes</a>.)</p></li>
<li><p><b>Icon view</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">1</span>) - Big icons, you can change the size from the submenu or in/decrease their size with <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key"> </span>/<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">-</span>.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Mini icon view</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">2</span>) - Small icons.</p></li>
<li><p><b>List view</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">3</span>) - A detailed list of your files enabling you to show/hide available <i>attributes</i>. (See topic <a href="attributes.html">Attributes</a>.)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>The <span class="menu">Window</span> menu offers a number of other functions:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><b>Resize Window</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">Y</span>) - Resizes the window to its ideal size.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Clean Up</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">K</span>) - Aligns all icons to an invisible grid. Hold down <span class="key">SHIFT</span> and the menu becomes <span class="menu">Clean Up All</span> which additionally sorts all icons alphabetically.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Resize window</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">Y</span>) - Resizes the window to its ideal size.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Clean up</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">K</span>) - Aligns all icons to an invisible grid. Hold down <span class="key">SHIFT</span> and the menu becomes <span class="menu">Clean up all</span> which additionally sorts all icons alphabetically.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Select...</b> (<span class="key">SHIFT</span> <span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">A</span>) - Select files according to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression" class="external free" title="Wikipedia: Regular expression">regular expression</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Close</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">W</span>) - Closes the window. Hold down <span class="key">SHIFT</span> and the menu becomes <span class="menu">Close All</span> which closes every Tracker window.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Close All in Workspace</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">Q</span>) - Closes every Tracker window in the current workspace. A useful shortcut if you forgot to hold the <span class="key">OPT</span> key while clicking through folders and all those still open Tracker windows clutter your workspace.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Close</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">W</span>) - Closes the window. Hold down <span class="key">SHIFT</span> and the menu becomes <span class="menu">Close all</span> which closes every Tracker window.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Close all in workspace</b> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">Q</span>) - Closes every Tracker window in the current workspace. A useful shortcut if you forgot to hold the <span class="key">OPT</span> key while clicking through folders and all those still open Tracker windows clutter your workspace.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Sometimes you just want to rearrange a few icons without doing a complete <span class="menu">Clean Up</span> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">K</span>). In that case, you select these icons and start to drag them to their new location. Before you drop them there, keep <span class="key">ALT</span> pressed. This will align the icons to the invisible grid.</p>
<p>Sometimes you just want to rearrange a few icons without doing a complete <span class="menu">Clean up</span> (<span class="key">ALT</span> <span class="key">K</span>). In that case, you select these icons and start to drag them to their new location. Before you drop them there, keep <span class="key">ALT</span> pressed. This will align the icons to the invisible grid.</p>
<p>The rest of the functions are pretty self-explanatory, leaving the Tracker preferences.</p>
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@@ -138,10 +138,10 @@ This type-ahead filtering is set in the <a href="#tracker-preferences.html">Trac
<br />So, in short, the not so obvious settings:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><b>Desktop</b> - Decide if all mounted disks appear directly on the Desktop or in a window after clicking a single Disk icon sitting on the Desktop.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Windows</b> - You can set <span class="menu">Single Window Navigation</span>, i.e. a double-clicked folder doesn't open in its own window, but inside the already open window instead, replacing the view of it's parent folder. This is not the same as clicking while holding the <span class="key">OPT</span> key, as described above, because you'll lose the per window saved position and size.
<li><p><b>Windows</b> - You can set <span class="menu">Single window navigation</span>, i.e. a double-clicked folder doesn't open in its own window, but inside the already open window instead, replacing the view of it's parent folder. This is not the same as clicking while holding the <span class="key">OPT</span> key, as described above, because you'll lose the per window saved position and size.
<br /><br /></p>
<img src="images/tracker-images/tracker-preferences-navigator.png" alt="tracker-preferences-navigator.png" />
<p>Before you switch Tracker to Single Window Navigation mode, because that may feel more familiar to you, we recommend giving the menu based browsing a try first, as that may actually work much faster for you after getting used to. On the other hand, single window browsing offers a <i>Navigator</i> where you can enter or copy&amp;paste a path name and use back, forward and up buttons.</p>
<p>Before you switch Tracker to Single Window Navigation mode, because that may feel more familiar to you, we recommend giving the menu based browsing a try first, as that may actually work much faster for you after getting used to. On the other hand, single window browsing offers a <i>Navigator</i> where you can enter or copy &amp; paste a path name and use back, forward and up buttons.</p>
<p>Activating <span class="menu">Type-ahead filtering</span> will filter the contents of a Tracker window while you type to only display the files matching your string in their name or any currently displayed attribute. See <a href="#type-ahead-filter">above</a>.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Date and Time</b> - Set date and time formats.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Trash</b> - Set the behavior when deleting a file.</p></li>
@@ -159,23 +159,23 @@ This type-ahead filtering is set in the <a href="#tracker-preferences.html">Trac
<li><p><b>New</b> - Create a new folder or any other file based on a <i>template</i>.
<br /><br /></p>
<img src="images/tracker-images/new-menu.png" alt="new-menu.png" />
<p>Choosing <span class="menu">Edit Templates...</span> opens the folder <span class="path">/boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/Tracker New Templates</span>. Creating a file in that folder will offer its filetype with the file's name and other attributes as template in the <span class="menu">New</span> menu. Here, there's a file "Text" with the filetype <tt>text/plain</tt>. See topic <a href="filetypes.html">Filetypes</a> for more info.</p></li>
<p>Choosing <span class="menu">Edit templates...</span> opens the folder <span class="path">/boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/Tracker New Templates</span>. Creating a file in that folder will offer its filetype with the file's name and other attributes as template in the <span class="menu">New</span> menu. Here, there's a file "Text" with the filetype <tt>text/plain</tt>. See topic <a href="filetypes.html">Filetypes</a> for more info.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Open With...</b> - A submenu offers all applications that can handle this filetype.
<br /><br /></p>
<img src="images/tracker-images/open-with.png" alt="open-with.png" />
<p>The preferred application that would open the file when double-clicked, is checkmarked. This submenu lists first those applications that can handle the exact filetype, in this case it's a text file, the type <tt>text/plain</tt>. Next come all applications that can handle that supertype in general, here <tt>text/*</tt>. Last in the list are those that can deal with any file. If you don't click on an app in the submenu, but on the <span class="menu">Open With...</span> entry instead, a panel opens:</p>
<p>The preferred application that would open the file when double-clicked, is checkmarked. This submenu lists first those applications that can handle the exact filetype, in this case it's a text file, the type <tt>text/plain</tt>. Next come all applications that can handle that supertype in general, here <tt>text/*</tt>. Last in the list are those that can deal with any file. If you don't click on an app in the submenu, but on the <span class="menu">Open with...</span> entry instead, a panel opens:</p>
<br /><br />
<img src="images/tracker-images/open-with-preferred.png" alt="open-with-preferred" />
<p>Here you'll again find the programs that were listed in the submenu. By selecting one and clicking the <span class="button">Open and Make Preferred</span> button, you changed the preferred application for every file of that filetype, here <tt>text/plain</tt>.</p></li>
<p>Here you'll again find the programs that were listed in the submenu. By selecting one and clicking the <span class="button">Open and make preferred</span> button, you changed the preferred application for every file of that filetype, here <tt>text/plain</tt>.</p></li>
<li><b>Get Info</b>
<br /><br />
<img src="images/tracker-images/get-info.png" alt="get-info" />
<p>The panel presents info on the selected file and lets you set the default application and, after you expanded that part of the panel, permissions and owner. Clicking on the path will open it in a Tracker window.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Edit Name</b>, <b>Duplicate</b> and <b>Move to Trash</b> - lets you rename or duplicate a file or put the selected file(s) to the trash.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Move to</b>, <b>Copy to</b> and <b>Create Link</b> - lets you move, copy or link the selected file(s) using the submenu navigating method. Holding <span class="key">SHIFT</span> while invoking the menu offers the option to create a relative link.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Edit name</b>, <b>Duplicate</b> and <b>Move to trash</b> - lets you rename or duplicate a file or put the selected file(s) to the trash.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Move to</b>, <b>Copy to</b> and <b>Create link</b> - lets you move, copy or link the selected file(s) using the submenu navigating method. Holding <span class="key">SHIFT</span> while invoking the menu offers the option to create a relative link.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Cut</b>, <b>Copy</b> and <b>Paste</b> - lets you cut, copy and paste files using the clipboard. By holding <span class="key">SHIFT</span> while invoking the menu you can <b>Copy/Cut more</b> files, maybe from another folder that you can paste somewhere else later. Also, while holding <span class="key">SHIFT</span> you can paste the copied files in the clipboard as links.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Identify</b> - will sniff out and set the type of files if they didn't have one before, e.g. if you transferred a file with <span class="cli">wget</span> which doesn't set a filetype itself. Holding <span class="key">SHIFT</span> while invoking the menu changes the item to <b>Force Identify</b> which identifies the filetype and corrects it if it was false before.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Identify</b> - will sniff out and set the type of files if they didn't have one before, e.g. if you transferred a file with <span class="cli">wget</span> which doesn't set a filetype itself. Holding <span class="key">SHIFT</span> while invoking the menu changes the item to <b>Force identify</b> which identifies the filetype and corrects it if it was false before.</p></li>
<li><p><b>Add-Ons</b> - offers you every generic Tracker add-on and those that can handle the selected file(s). See topic <a href="tracker-add-ons.html">Tracker Add-ons</a> for more information.</p></li>
</ul>
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ To that we add a couple of attributes. Here we have to decide if we want to quer
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<a id="description" name="description">Description</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><i>Type Name</i> - Appears e.g. in the Attribute menu of Tracker windows and the "Kind" attribute of a file.</li>
<li><i>Type name</i> - Appears e.g. in the Attribute menu of Tracker windows and the "Kind" attribute of a file.</li>
<li><i>Description</i> - A bit more detailed description.</li>
</ul>
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ To that we add a couple of attributes. Here we have to decide if we want to quer
<p>Here we enter all the custom attributes we decided on in our preparations. Clicking the <span class="button">Add...</span> button opens a panel:</p>
<img src="images/workshop-filetypes+attributes-images/filetype-extra-attribute.png" alt="filetype-extra-attribute.png" />
<ul>
<li><p><i>Attribute Name</i> - Appears e.g. as the column heading in Tracker windows.</p></li>
<li><p><i>Internal Name</i> - Is used for indexing and querying the attribute.</p></li>
<li><p><i>Attribute name</i> - Appears e.g. as the column heading in Tracker windows.</p></li>
<li><p><i>Internal name</i> - Is used for indexing and querying the attribute.</p></li>
<li><i>Type</i> - Defines the value the attribute can hold and therefore how it can be queried.
<ul>
<li><span class="menu">String</span> for normal text</li>
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ To that we add a couple of attributes. Here we have to decide if we want to quer
</ul>
<ul>
<li><i>Visible</i> - This checkbox determines if the attribute is visible in a Tracker window at all. Since the Tracker will be the interface to our DVD database, we check it and define its appearance with:<ul>
<li><span class="menu">Display As</span> - Leave on "Default". In the future more option will become available, e.g. a bar or stars for a rating etc.</li>
<li><span class="menu">Display as</span> - Leave on "Default". In the future more option will become available, e.g. a bar or stars for a rating etc.</li>
<li><span class="menu">Editable</span> - Determines if the attribute shall be editable in Tracker.</li>
<li><span class="menu">Width</span> - The default width of that attributes column in a Tracker window.</li>
<li><span class="menu">Alignment</span> - The attribute can be displayed left, center, or right aligned.</li>
@@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ Since our basic file is a cover image, we go to some online resource like IMdB,
<a id="query-db" name="query-db">Querying the database</a></h2>
<p>Several hours of grunt work later, we have a nice little database that you can query to find all your Christina Ricci movies that have a 7+ rating... :)</p>
<p>You can assign a sensible attribute layout for query results of a specific filetype.<br />
Open the folder containing your DVDdb files and arrange the attributes how you'd like to have query results presented. Copy this layout with <span class="menu">Attributes | Copy Layout</span>.</p>
Open the folder containing your DVDdb files and arrange the attributes how you'd like to have query results presented. Copy this layout with <span class="menu">Attributes | Copy layout</span>.</p>
<p>Open <span class="path">/boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/DefaultQueryTemplates</span>, create a new folder and rename it to <i>group/filetype</i>, replacing slashes with underscores; in our case "applications_DVDdb".</p>
<p>Open the new folder and paste in the layout with <span class="menu">Attributes | Paste Layout</span>. Voilà:</p>
<p>Open the new folder and paste in the layout with <span class="menu">Attributes | Paste layout</span>. Voilà:</p>
<img src="images/workshop-filetypes+attributes-images/query-dvddb.png" alt="query-dvddb.png" />
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