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<chapter id="programs-and-documents">
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<title>Programs and Documents</title>
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<sect1 id="programs-launching">
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<sect1info>
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<author>
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<firstname>Robert</firstname>
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<surname>Stoffers</surname>
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</author>
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</sect1info>
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<title>Launching Programs</title>
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<para>&kde; offers a varying number of ways to launch programs. You may:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Simply select the relevant item in the &kmenu;.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Run the program from &konsole;, or by clicking the &kmenu; and choosing <guimenuitem>Run Command...</guimenuitem> (while you still might prefer the quick keyboard shortcut, which is simply <keycombo action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo>).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Create a shortcut on the desktop or use &kicker;'s quick launcher.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>The &kmenu; functions much like the Start menu of &Windows;, however
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it breaks programs up by what they do. Programs on the &kmenu; are broken
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into category menus, such as <guisubmenu>Multimedia</guisubmenu> and
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<guisubmenu>Office</guisubmenu>. Under these category menus there are
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subcategory menus, such as <guisubmenu>Sound</guisubmenu>,
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<guisubmenu>Video</guisubmenu> and <guisubmenu>Graphics</guisubmenu>. Under
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the subcategory menus lie program launchers, which, when clicked on, launch
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the associated application.</para>
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<para>Depending on the program, there may not be a launcher in the &kmenu;.
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To search your hard drive for more applications, click the &kmenu;, choose
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<guimenuitem>Run Command</guimenuitem> and type
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<userinput><command>kappfinder</command></userinput>. In
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&kappfinder;, click <guibutton>Scan</guibutton>, and the hard drive will be
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searched for programs. Click the checkbox next to each program to be added
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to the &kmenu;, and click <guibutton>Apply</guibutton> and
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<guibutton>Close</guibutton>. The &kmenu; now will have new program
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launchers under the relevant category menus.</para>
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<para>Launchers to programs may also be placed on the desktop. To create a
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new launcher, <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on the desktop, and
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choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Create
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New</guimenu><guimenuitem>Link to
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Application</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. On the &kdesktop; properties dialog
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box, type in the name of the program on the <guilabel>General</guilabel>
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tab. You may also wish to choose a custom icon by clicking on the gear icon.
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Click the <guilabel>Application</guilabel> tab and type a short sentence
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about the program in the <guilabel>Description</guilabel> textbox. In the
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<guilabel>Command</guilabel> textbox, type the name of the program (case
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sensitive), and any command line options you wish to use. Choose
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<guibutton>OK</guibutton>, and your new program launcher will be created on
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your desktop. Simply click on the new launcher on the desktop and the
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associated program will run.</para>
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<para>To launch a program using &konsole;, click the &kmenu; and choose
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<menuchoice><guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>Terminals
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</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Konsole</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Once &konsole;
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appears on the screen, simply type the name of the program you wish to
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launch (remembering that <application>bash</application>, the command language interpreter that &konsole; uses by default, is case-sensitive) and press
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<keycap>Enter</keycap>. If you are unsure about the name of a program, type
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the first few letters then press the 	 key on your keyboard. By pressing
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	, <application>bash</application> (through &konsole;) will try to guess the name of the program you wish to
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launch. If it finds more then one matching program, a list of
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matching programs will be printed on the screen. Type the name of the
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program from the list and press <keycap>Enter</keycap> to launch.</para>
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<para>Whichever way you choose, launching a program is a simple affair with
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&kde;. From the &kmenu;, to &konsole;, all your programs are just a few
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clicks or key-presses away.</para>
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<!-- Add links to "further reading" here -->
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<itemizedlist>
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<title>Related Information</title>
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<listitem><para>Check the &kicker; handbook for more information on enabling or disabling the &kmenu;, adding applications to the quick launch, or on organizing the categorization of the applications in the &kmenu;. You can view the &kicker; handbook either via the &khelpcenter; or by using &konqueror;'s KIOslave by typing <userinput>help:/kicker</userinput> in the Location toolbar.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect1>
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&programs-controlling;
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<sect1 id="programs-save-open">
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<sect1info>
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<author>
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<personname>
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<firstname>Christian</firstname>
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<surname>Weickhmann</surname>
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</personname>
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<email>christian.weickhmann@gmx.de</email>
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</author>
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</sect1info>
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<title>Opening and Saving Files</title>
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<!-- TODO: Convert this whole thing to an image with callouts. It -->
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<!-- should be much nicer that way. -->
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<para>&kde; provides a unified way to open or save files via the file
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dialog. In almost every &kde; program you will find a
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<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice> and <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu>
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<guimenuitem>Save</guimenuitem></menuchoice> (and/or <guimenuitem>Save
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As...</guimenuitem>) entry.</para>
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<sect2 id="file-dialog">
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<title>The File Dialog</title>
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<screenshot>
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<screeninfo>The &kde; <quote>Open File</quote> dialog</screeninfo>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="open-file-dialog.png" format="PNG"/> </imageobject>
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<textobject>
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<phrase>The &kde; <quote>Open File</quote> dialog</phrase>
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</textobject>
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<caption>
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<para>The &kde; <quote>Open File</quote> dialog</para>
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</caption>
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</mediaobject>
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</screenshot>
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-->
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<screenshot>
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<mediaobjectco>
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<imageobjectco>
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<areaspec units="calspair">
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<area id="navigation-area-co" coords="1 1"/>
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<area id="icon-view-co" coords="1 1"/>
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<area id="bottom-area-co" coords="1 1"/>
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<area id="quick-access-co" coords="1 1"/>
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<area id="preview-area-co" coords="1 1"/>
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</areaspec>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="open-file-dialog.png" format="PNG"/>
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</imageobject>
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</imageobjectco>
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</mediaobjectco>
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</screenshot>
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<!-- ======================================================================
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<calloutlist>
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<callout arearefs="pt-first-channel-1"><para>This is called the <interface>Input Line</interface>. To send a message to everyone in the channel, type the message here and press &Enter;.
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Your message, as well as everyone else's messages appear in the channel scroll above.
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Each message is preceded by the time and user's &nickname;.</para></callout>
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</calloutlist>
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====================================================================== -->
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<para>This dialog consists of between three and five areas. The
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top area is where you find the navigation and configuration functions. The
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main area (in the middle) is where all your files are being displayed as
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icons. This is called an icon view. The bottom area is where you can edit
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filename or filter expressions and say <guibutton>Save</guibutton> or
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<guibutton>Open</guibutton>.</para>
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<para>In addition to that you can add two even more sophisticated areas:
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the <link linkend="quick-access">Quick Access Navigation Panel</link> and
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the <link linkend="preview-area">Preview Panel</link>.</para>
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<calloutlist>
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<callout arearefs="navigation-area-co">
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<para>Next to the three navigation buttons (one directory
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<guiicon>up</guiicon>, <guiicon>back</guiicon> and
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<guiicon>forward</guiicon>) and the <guiicon>new folder</guiicon> button
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there is the <guiicon>bookmarks</guiicon> menu. Here you can mark any folder
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you visit often to find it quickly. The <guiicon>wrench</guiicon> icon holds
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the different functions to sort your files by name, date or size and to
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enable the two extra panels mentioned above. Next to it you can type the
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directory and choose (on the very right side) the encoding.</para>
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</callout>
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<callout arearefs="icon-view-co">
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<para>You'll find the icon view in the middle of the dialog. You will find
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most of the navigation functions in the context menu by clicking on the
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items or the background with the <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> mouse
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button.</para>
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</callout>
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<callout arearefs="bottom-area-co">
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<para>The bottom of the dialog consists of the address field holding the
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file name you chose or typed in and the maybe most powerful tool: The
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filter. Here you can make the icon view display only items that match the
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criteria you define. Try filtering files whose names contain
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<quote>air</quote> by typing <userinput>*air*</userinput> into the filter
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field.</para>
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</callout>
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<callout arearefs="quick-access-co">
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<anchor id="quick-access"/>
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<para>The Quick Access Panel (activate it by typing the
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<keycap>F9</keycap> key on your keyboard or through the wrench icon on top
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of the dialog) provides configurable shortcuts to frequently used
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locations on your hard drive or even on the Internet. There are several
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preconfigured locations such as your home directory. Try right clicking on
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any item to configure it or to empty space to add a new entry. You will be
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shown a context menu. Here you can choose the icon size and to add, modify
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or rename any entry. Choose <guimenuitem>Add Entry</guimenuitem> and you
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will see a window containing anything you need: Type your description, enter
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the location (or choose it via the dialog opening by clicking on the
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folder symbol), choose a symbol from a vast variety in the symbol dialog
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opening when you click on the predefined icon (usually a simple folder
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symbol).</para>
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</callout>
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<callout arearefs="preview-area-co">
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<anchor id="preview-area"/>
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<para>The Preview area (activate it by typing the <keycap>F11</keycap>
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key on your keyboard or via the wrench icon on top of the dialog)
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makes it easy to preview almost any file on your filesystem. Images
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will be displayed as thumbnails. Usually also sound files (such as
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MP3, Ogg or Wave-Files), text files (among them raw text, PDF and
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&HTML;) and even video files (MPG, AVI and so on) will be
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previewed.</para>
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<note><para>Note that large files might take a long time to be previewed
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(⪚ scaled down if they are large images). You can disable automatic
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previews by unselecting <guilabel>Automatic Preview</guilabel> below the
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preview. You can still preview individual files: just click <guibutton>Preview</guibutton>. You can also disable previews for files above a certain
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size. Go to &kcontrolcenter;, choose <menuchoice><guilabel>KDE
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components</guilabel><guilabel>File manager</guilabel></menuchoice>, go to
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the <guilabel>Preview and Metafiles</guilabel> tab and change the
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<guilabel>Maximum Filesize</guilabel> value.</para></note>
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</callout>
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</calloutlist>
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<title>Related Information</title>
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<listitem><para>to be written</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>-->
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="configuring-programs">
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<sect1info>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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&Philip.Rodrigues;
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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</sect1info>
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<title>Configuring Programs</title>
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<sect2 id="configure-kapp">
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<title>Application Configuration</title>
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<!-- FIXME: Make a more friendly title -->
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<indexterm><primary>Configuration</primary></indexterm>
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<indexterm><primary>Customization</primary></indexterm>
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<para>&kde; applications are intended to be as useful and usable as
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possible <quote>out of the box</quote>, but they also offer a wide
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range of options which you can change to make &kde; work for you. As
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well as the settings which affect the whole of &kde; (see <xref
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linkend="control-center"/>), each application has a set of
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configuration options, which you can access using the menu option
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
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<replaceable>Application</replaceable></guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>. This is the same for all &kde; applications, which
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makes it easy to find the configuration dialog for an
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application.</para>
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<!-- TODO: Screenie of a typical config dialog -->
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<para>On the left of the configuration dialog is a list of
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sections. Clicking on one of these sections displays the configuration
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page for that section on the right-hand side of the dialog. You can
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change these options to fit your preferences.</para>
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<para>When you have made the changes you want, you can click on
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<guibutton>OK</guibutton> to save your changes and close the
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configuration dialog. If you want to see the effect of your changes,
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but not close the configuration dialog, click on the
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<guibutton>Apply</guibutton> button. This is useful if you aren't sure
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about the change you've made, and might want to change back, because
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the dialog is still open, ready for you to do so.</para>
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<para>If you decide that you don't want to keep the changes you've
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made, just click <guibutton>Cancel</guibutton> to close the dialog
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without saving your changes.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="configure-shortcuts">
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<title>Configuring Keyboard Shortcuts</title>
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<indexterm><primary>Shortcuts</primary></indexterm>
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<indexterm><primary>Keybindings</primary></indexterm>
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<para>Most &kde; applications offer keyboard shortcuts for the main
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actions in the application. If you find that you don't like the
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default keyboard shortcuts, or that they conflict with the shortcuts
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of another application (maybe one that's not part of &kde;), you can
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change them with the
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
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Shortcuts...</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice> menu entry. This brings up the
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<guilabel>Configure Shortcuts</guilabel> dialog for the
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application. As an example of how to use this dialog, let's add a
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shortcut for the <guimenuitem>Send Link Address...</guimenuitem> action to
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&konqueror;, so that we can email the locations of interesting pages
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to friends just by hitting a key (or two): </para>
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<procedure>
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<step><para>Open the <guilabel>Configure Shortcuts</guilabel>
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dialog in &konqueror;, as described above.</para>
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</step>
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<step><para>Click on the <guilabel>Send Link Address...</guilabel> item
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in the main listbox (it's near the bottom, in the
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<guilabel>Konqueror</guilabel> section).</para>
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</step>
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<step><para>In the <guilabel>Shortcut for Selected
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Action</guilabel> panel, select <guilabel>Custom</guilabel>, since we
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are going to give this action a keyboard shortcut that we have chosen.</para>
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</step>
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<step><para>A small shortcut entry dialog pops up. Just hit
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<keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>E</keycap>
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</keycombo> (or whatever you want to change the shortcut to), and the
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dialog disappears. The <quote>key</quote> icon in the
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<guilabel>Configure Shortcuts</guilabel> dialog now shows the new
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shortcut.</para>
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</step>
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<step><para>If you made a mistake, or change your mind about what
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to use as the shortcut, just click on the key icon showing the current
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shortcut. The shortcut entry dialog reappears, and you can press the
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key combination for the shortcut you want.</para>
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</step>
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</procedure>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="configure-notifications">
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<title>Configuring Notifications</title>
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<indexterm><primary>Notifications</primary></indexterm>
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<indexterm><primary>Sounds</primary></indexterm>
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<para>Something about
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure Notifications...</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="configuring-toolbars">
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<sect2info>
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<author>
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<firstname>Adriaan</firstname>
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<surname>de Groot</surname>
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</author>
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</sect2info>
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<title>Configuring Toolbars</title>
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<para>Nearly every &kde; application has one or more toolbars at the top of
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the application window, underneath the menu. The toolbar contains icons
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(toolbar buttons) that represent commonly used actions and configuration
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settings. The &kmail; window, for instance, has a toolbar that contains
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buttons for <guiicon>New Message</guiicon>, <guiicon>Check Mail</guiicon>
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and several others. Each of these actions is something you do often, so
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that's why they have toolbar buttons as well as menu entries (<guiicon>New
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Message</guiicon> is under
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<menuchoice><guimenu>Message</guimenu><guimenuitem>New
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Message</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, <guiicon>Check Mail</guiicon> is
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<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Check
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Mail</guimenuitem></menuchoice>).</para>
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<para>Not everybody agrees on what actions are commonly used, though, (I
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never use the <guiicon>New Message</guiicon> toolbar button or the menu
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item, I use the keyboard shortcut <keycombo
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|
action="simul">&Ctrl;<keycap>N</keycap></keycombo>). To ensure that your
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screen isn't cluttered with things you don't need, each toolbar can be
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customized. Additionally, you can usually customize which toolbars are
|
||
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displayed and how, as well.</para>
|
||
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<sect3 id="customizing-toolbar-displays">
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<title>Customizing Toolbar Displays</title>
|
||
|
|
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|
<para>The easiest thing to customize with the toolbars of any given
|
||
|
|
application is whether they are displayed at all. Most applications have a
|
||
|
|
<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guisubmenu>Toolbars</guisubmenu>
|
||
|
|
</menuchoice> menu where you can select which toolbars are displayed and
|
||
|
|
which are not. &konqueror; has four toolbars, <interface>Main</interface>,
|
||
|
|
<interface>Extra</interface>, <interface>Location</interface> and
|
||
|
|
<interface>Bookmark</interface>. It can be convenient to turn off the
|
||
|
|
<interface>Bookmark</interface> toolbar to save
|
||
|
|
screen space. To do so, click on the <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu,
|
||
|
|
choose <guisubmenu>Toolbars</guisubmenu>, and then uncheck the
|
||
|
|
<guimenuitem>Bookmark Toolbar</guimenuitem> entry (do this just by clicking
|
||
|
|
on the menu item).</para>
|
||
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||
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|
<para>If there is no <guimenu>Settings</guimenu> menu, you can also
|
||
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|
<mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on the toolbar itself, and choose the
|
||
|
|
<guisubmenu>Toolbars</guisubmenu> sub-menu from the resulting context
|
||
|
|
menu.</para>
|
||
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|
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||
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|
<para>The same <guimenu>Toolbar</guimenu> context menu, accessed by
|
||
|
|
<mousebutton>right</mousebutton> clicking on the toolbar, allows you to
|
||
|
|
customize other properties of the toolbar:</para>
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||
|
|
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||
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|
<itemizedlist>
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||
|
|
<listitem>
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|
<para>Its orientation, so that instead of appearing at the top of the
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||
|
|
window under the menu bar you can place it on the left, right or bottom of
|
||
|
|
the window.</para>
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|
</listitem>
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||
|
|
<listitem>
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|
<para>Its orientation, so that the toolbar <quote>floats</quote> as a
|
||
|
|
separate window which you can move independently.</para>
|
||
|
|
</listitem>
|
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|
<listitem>
|
||
|
|
<para>Its orientation, so that the toolbar is squashed into a little flat
|
||
|
|
grip that you can re-open by double-clicking on it (this is subtly
|
||
|
|
different from making the toolbar vanish completely, since it it easier to
|
||
|
|
cause it to re-appear).</para>
|
||
|
|
</listitem>
|
||
|
|
<listitem>
|
||
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<para>The appearance of text alongside, underneath, or instead of the icons
|
||
|
|
on the toolbar.</para>
|
||
|
|
</listitem>
|
||
|
|
<listitem>
|
||
|
|
<para>The size of the icons (if they are not supplanted by
|
||
|
|
text).</para>
|
||
|
|
</listitem>
|
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|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
||
|
|
</sect3>
|
||
|
|
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|
<sect3 id="customizing-icons-on-toolbar">
|
||
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|
<title>Customizing the Icons on the Toolbar</title>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<para>The toolbar is intended for actions that you perform often, so what do
|
||
|
|
you do if there is some useless icon there, like <guiicon>Cut</guiicon>? Or
|
||
|
|
what if you really want a <guiicon>cut</guiicon> button on the toolbar, but
|
||
|
|
the application doesn't give you one? This is where the customize toolbars
|
||
|
|
dialog comes in — it give you complete control over the actions that
|
||
|
|
are available on each toolbar.</para>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
|
||
|
|
Toolbars</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the application's menu, or
|
||
|
|
<guimenuitem>Configure Toolbars</guimenuitem> from the context menu of the
|
||
|
|
toolbar itself. This displays the configure toolbars dialog, which consists
|
||
|
|
of a combobox <!-- drop-down box? --> with which you can select
|
||
|
|
<emphasis>which</emphasis> toolbar to customize, and two lists of items
|
||
|
|
— one of the available actions, and one of the actions that are
|
||
|
|
already in use on the toolbar.</para>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<para>Often there are many many more actions available ( <guiicon>activate
|
||
|
|
tab #12</guiicon>, for instance) than you would ever want on the toolbar, or
|
||
|
|
even that you know exist in the application. The customize toolbar dialog
|
||
|
|
can be a learning experience. You can drag actions from one list box to the
|
||
|
|
other, rearrange the items on the toolbar <!-- in the list box on the right
|
||
|
|
..... not sure if I should be LTR-centric -->, or change the icon for a
|
||
|
|
selected action. This allows you to drag the actions you don't want off of
|
||
|
|
the toolbar and into the list of available actions; similarly, the actions
|
||
|
|
you do want can be dragged into the toolbar. Clicking
|
||
|
|
<guibutton>OK</guibutton> in the dialog immediately updates the toolbar with
|
||
|
|
your new preferred actions.</para>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<para>There are a few special items that can end up in the listbox for the
|
||
|
|
current toolbar:</para>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
||
|
|
<listitem>
|
||
|
|
<para>separators, which exist in two flavors:
|
||
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
||
|
|
<listitem><para><guilabel>line separator</guilabel> appears as a line
|
||
|
|
between two action icons</para>
|
||
|
|
</listitem>
|
||
|
|
<listitem><para><guilabel>separator</guilabel> appears as a larger
|
||
|
|
space between two action icons</para>
|
||
|
|
</listitem>
|
||
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
||
|
|
</para>
|
||
|
|
</listitem>
|
||
|
|
<listitem>
|
||
|
|
<para><guilabel><Merge></guilabel>, which is a special item that
|
||
|
|
allows plugins and other loadable components of the application to insert
|
||
|
|
their actions into the toolbar as well. It is generally not a good idea to
|
||
|
|
remove this, since you cannot get it back.</para>
|
||
|
|
</listitem>
|
||
|
|
<listitem>
|
||
|
|
<para><guilabel>ActionList:</guilabel>, these appear in various flavors
|
||
|
|
(there is a viewmode_toolbar one in &konqueror;) and again these
|
||
|
|
represent lists of actions that might be inserted by
|
||
|
|
plugins.</para>
|
||
|
|
</listitem>
|
||
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<para>Whenever you click on an action in the list of current actions, a
|
||
|
|
description of it is shown in the dialog. This description will warn you if
|
||
|
|
it is a bad idea to remove the action.</para>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<para>If you do not like to drag things around, there are four buttons in
|
||
|
|
the middle of the dialog which allow you to move the selected action from
|
||
|
|
one list to the other, and to move a selected current action up or down in
|
||
|
|
the list. There must be a way to restore the default toolbars in an
|
||
|
|
application, in order to recover from accidentally deleting an important
|
||
|
|
action like <guilabel><Merge></guilabel>, but I don't know what it
|
||
|
|
is.</para>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
<!-- Add links to "further reading" here -->
|
||
|
|
<!-- <itemizedlist>
|
||
|
|
<title>Related Information</title>
|
||
|
|
<listitem><para>to be written</para>
|
||
|
|
</listitem>
|
||
|
|
</itemizedlist>-->
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
</sect3>
|
||
|
|
</sect2>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
</sect1>
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
</chapter>
|
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