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<chapter id="save-settings">
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<chapterinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author
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>&Pamela.Roberts;</author>
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<othercredit role="translator"
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><firstname
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>John</firstname
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><surname
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>Knight</surname
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><affiliation
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><address
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><email
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>anarchist_tomato@herzeleid.net</email
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></address
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></affiliation
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><contrib
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>Conversion to British English</contrib
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></othercredit
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>
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</authorgroup>
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<date
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>2003-11-06</date
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> <releaseinfo
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>3.2</releaseinfo
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> </chapterinfo>
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<title
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>Saving Settings & Profiles</title>
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<sect1 id="save-settings-general">
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<title
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>General Settings</title>
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<para
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>When you close down &konqueror; your current <guimenu
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>View</guimenu
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> menu settings (such as the <guimenuitem
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>View Mode</guimenuitem
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>, <guimenuitem
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>Use index.html</guimenuitem
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> and <guimenuitem
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>Show Hidden Files </guimenuitem
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> items) are automatically saved as the default options to be used next time &konqueror; is started.</para>
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<para
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>But you can also specify different <guimenu
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>View</guimenu
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> menu settings for an individual folder. To do this check the <guimenuitem
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>View Properties Saved in Folder</guimenuitem
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> box in the <guimenu
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>Settings</guimenu
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> menu, change the <guimenu
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>View</guimenu
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> settings to whatever you want then uncheck the <guimenuitem
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>View Properties saved in Folder</guimenuitem
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> box. Doing this creates a <filename
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>.directory</filename
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> file in that folder to hold the folder <guimenu
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>View</guimenu
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> settings. Use the <menuchoice
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><guimenu
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> Settings</guimenu
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><guimenuitem
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>Remove Folder Properties</guimenuitem
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> </menuchoice
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> option to remove the folder specific settings (or just delete the <filename
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>.directory</filename
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> file).</para>
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<note
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><para
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>One nice use of this feature is if you have a folder full of pictures. You can set that particular folder to display thumbnails of the pictures (by choosing <guimenuitem
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>Icon View</guimenuitem
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> and <menuchoice
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> <guisubmenu
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>Preview</guisubmenu
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><guimenuitem
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>Show Previews</guimenuitem
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> </menuchoice
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> from the <guimenu
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>View</guimenu
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> menu) when you open it, while not displaying images as thumbnails in other folders.</para
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></note>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="save-settings-view-profiles">
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<title
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>View Profiles</title>
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<para
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>&konqueror; can save a whole set of options as a <quote
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>View Profile</quote
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>. Some view profiles are part of the standard &konqueror; installation, such as <property
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>Web Browsing</property
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> and <property
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>File Management</property
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>, but you can add your own, too.</para>
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<para
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>To modify a view profile (say, the <property
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>Web Browsing</property
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> profile), load the profile with <menuchoice
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><guimenu
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>Settings</guimenu
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><guisubmenu
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>Load View Profile</guisubmenu
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><guimenuitem
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>Web Browsing</guimenuitem
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> </menuchoice
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>, and change the &konqueror; settings to whatever you want. Now select <menuchoice
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><guimenu
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>Settings</guimenu
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><guimenuitem
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>Save View Profile "Web Browsing"...</guimenuitem
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></menuchoice
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>. In the dialogue which appears, you can change the name of the profile, which will create a new profile with that name, or you can leave the name as it is to modify the current profile. If you select <guilabel
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>Save URLs in profile</guilabel
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>, the current &URL; will be loaded when you load that view profile. This functions in a similar way to the <quote
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>Home Page</quote
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> in many web browsers. If you want &konqueror; to start up with an empty window enter <userinput
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>about:blank</userinput
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> into the location bar before saving the profile.</para>
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<note
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><para
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>You can create a desktop icon to start &konqueror; with your new profile. First create a desktop icon by dragging the &konqueror; icon from the <guimenu
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>K</guimenu
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> menu onto the desktop and selecting <guimenuitem
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>Copy Here</guimenuitem
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>. Then <mousebutton
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>right</mousebutton
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> click on the new icon, select <guimenuitem
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>Properties...</guimenuitem
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> and change <guilabel
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>Program Name</guilabel
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> in the <guilabel
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>Execute</guilabel
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> tab page to <userinput
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><command
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>kfmclient</command
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> <option
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>openProfile <replaceable
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>MyNewProfile</replaceable
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></option
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></userinput
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>, <replaceable
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>MyNewProfile</replaceable
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> being what you called the new profile. Then in the <guilabel
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>General</guilabel
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> tab page change the name to something like <filename
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>MyNewProfile</filename
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> and pick a more suitable icon.</para
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></note>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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