* Fixed link in applications.html
* Added "setup wizard" and some info on IMAP to prefs-e-mail.html. IMAP is a bit broken, as was recently found out, so I'll leave it all at that for now. * Moved every localization-dependent image into a mirror image folder under its language (ATM there's only "en"). Only neutral images like icons remain directly under /docs/userguide/images. * Changed all image links accordingly. * Removed all height and width attributes to ease exchanging images. Only fixed size images (icons) will retain them for faster loading. * Added a special pre.terminal for printouts to save ink. Thanks Rob Tijssen for that suggestion. git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@31622 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
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<a href="#index"><img src="../images/up.png" align="right" alt="index" border="0" width="16" height="16" /></a>
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<a id="mounting-volumes" name="mounting-volumes">Mounting Volumes</a></h1>
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<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>
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/mount-settings.png" alt="drill-down.png" width="581" height="290" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/mount-settings.png" alt="drill-down.png" />
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<p>There are also <span class="menu">Mount Settings</span> so you don't have to mount everything manually after every bootup.<br />
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The above settings will automatically mount any storage device you connect/insert and also mount all disks on bootup that were mounted previously.</p>
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<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>
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<h2><a id="drill-down" name="drill-down">Drilling down the submenus</a></h2>
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<p>Instead of double-clicking your way down folder after folder, there's a better way to drill down:</p>
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/drill-down.png" alt="drill-down.png" width="603" height="303" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/drill-down.png" alt="drill-down.png" />
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<!-- screenshot needs updating to show /boot/system/documentation -->
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<p>Right-click onto a folder, and at the top of the usual context menu you'll find a submenu of the current folder that let's you navigate down a level. Just move down the hierarchy until you find the file or folder you're looking for and click on it to open it. The above shows the contents of the folder <span class="path">/boot/system/documentation/</span>.<br /><br /></p>
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<p>A similar method can be used from any Tracker window:</p>
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/window-drill-down.png" alt="window-drill-down.png" width="502" height="359" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/window-drill-down.png" alt="window-drill-down.png" />
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<p>Click on the area in the lower left, where the number of items is listed, and you'll get submenus for every level above your current location. From there you can drill down through the folders as usual.</p>
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<p>Note, that the Desktop is always the topmost level as that is where Tracker shows mounted volumes. So, if you want to go to another disk, you first have to navigate to the top (Desktop) and cross over to your other disk from there.</p><br />
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<p>You'll get the same submenu-navigating when you drag a file over a folder. After a short while of hovering, a submenu pops up and you can drill down to your destination. If you initiated the drag with the right mousebutton, you can choose between copying, moving or linking the file when you release the mouse.</p>
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<h2><a id="type-ahead" name="type-ahead">Jumping to files with type-ahead</a></h2>
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<p>You may be familiar with the concept from file managers of other operating systems: typing the first few letters of a filename will jump to the first file matching these starting characters. Haiku took the idea a step further. If there isn't a file starting with those letters it will jump to the first file including the string anywhere in its name. And if there's nothing with the string in its filename, the attributes are searched next.</p>
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/window-type-ahead.png" alt="window-type-ahead.png" width="652" height="317" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/window-type-ahead.png" alt="window-type-ahead.png" />
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<p>In the above example, there are many files starting with "Haiku logo", rendering simpler approaches to typing ahead quite useless. In Haiku however, typing "web" jumps right to its first occurence in "Haiku logo - website". The characters you enter appear in the bottom left corner where you normally find the item count of all files in the folder. A second after entering a character, the display jumps back to normal and you're ready for a new type ahead search.</p>
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<h1>
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<a href="#index"><img src="../images/up.png" align="right" alt="index" border="0" width="16" height="16" /></a>
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<a id="appearance" name="appearance">Appearance</a></h1>
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/window-menu.png" alt="window-menu.png" width="382" height="259" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/window-menu.png" alt="window-menu.png" />
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<p>Tracker windows offer three different viewing modes from the <span class="menu">Window</span> menu:</p>
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<ul>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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">WIN</span> key, as described above, because you'll lose the per window saved position and size.
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<br /><br />
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/tracker-preferences-navigator.png" alt="tracker-preferences-navigator.png" width="608" height="413" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/tracker-preferences-navigator.png" alt="tracker-preferences-navigator.png" />
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<br />
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<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&paste a path name and use back, forward and up buttons.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>Date and Time</b> - Set date and time formats.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>Find...</b> - Find a file or folder. See topic <a href="Query.html">Query</a> for more info.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>New</b> - Create a new folder or any other file based on a <i>template</i>.
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<br /><br />
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/new-menu.png" alt="new-menu.png" width="627" height="219" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/new-menu.png" alt="new-menu.png" />
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<br />
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<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>
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<li><p><b>Open With...</b> - A submenu offers all applications that can handle this filetype.
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<br /><br />
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/open-with.png" alt="open-with.png" width="303" height="343" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/open-with.png" alt="open-with.png" />
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<br />
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<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>
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<br /><br />
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/open-with-preferred.png" alt="open-with-preferred" width="539" height="262" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/open-with-preferred.png" alt="open-with-preferred" />
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<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>
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<li><p><b>Get Info</b>
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/get-info.png" alt="get-info" width="326" height="302" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/get-info.png" alt="get-info" />
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<a href="#index"><img src="../images/up.png" align="right" alt="index" border="0" width="16" height="16" /></a>
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<a id="transaction-status" name="transaction-status">Transaction status</a></h1>
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<p>When you copy, move or delete files, Tracker shows its progress with a status window. If you initiate more than one transaction, each job gets its own status display.</p>
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<img src="../images/tracker-images/transaction-status.png" alt="transaction-status.png" width="361" height="149" />
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<img src="images/tracker-images/transaction-status.png" alt="transaction-status.png" />
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<p>To the right are two buttons to pause or stop a transaction entirely. Sometimes it can be useful to temporarily pause a large transaction. For example, you may need to quickly launch a large application. Copying large amounts of data chokes your harddisk's IO bandwidth and thus delays your workflow.</p>
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