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<sect1 id="file-manager">
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<title>The File Manager</title>
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<indexterm><primary>&konqueror;</primary><secondary>File
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Management</secondary></indexterm>
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<indexterm><primary>File Management</primary></indexterm>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="konq-simple.png" format="PNG" />
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</imageobject>
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<caption><para>&konqueror; with simple settings</para></caption>
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</mediaobject>
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<sect2 id="filemanager-intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>&tde; includes a versatile and powerful file manager called
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&konqueror; that allows you to do everything you want with the files
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stored on your computer, your network, and even the Internet. There
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are too many features of &konqueror; to describe here, so we will just
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take an overview. For more details about what &konqueror; can
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do, refer to the <ulink url="help:/konqueror">&konqueror; Handbook</ulink>.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="folder-structure">
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<title>Folders</title>
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<para>When you first open &konqueror; in file management mode, you can
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see two panes: on the right is the folder view; on the left is the
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sidebar. The folder view contains icons for
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each item inside the current folder. These items can be
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folders or files. Many file types can be <quote>previewed</quote>
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without opening a new application to edit them in.<indexterm><primary>Previews</primary></indexterm> To preview a file,
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hold the mouse cursor over the name of the file for about a second: a
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popup window will appear, showing the contents of the file and other some
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useful information, like file's size and which user owns the file.</para>
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<para>You can open any item by clicking on the icon for the
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file. Folders will be opened in the same window; files will either be
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opened in the appropriate program, or the file manager will ask you
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what program to use. For instance, if do not have a word-processor set up to
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open &Microsoft; Word documents, the file manager will
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ask you what to do.</para>
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<para>You can go back to the last-opened folder by clicking on the
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<guiicon>Back</guiicon><!--screenie --> button or go up one folder by clicking
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the <guiicon>Up</guiicon><!--screenie --> button.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="the-navigation-panel">
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<title>The Navigation Panel (aka <quote>The Sidebar</quote>)</title>
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<indexterm><primary>Navigation Panel</primary></indexterm>
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<indexterm><primary>Sidebar</primary></indexterm>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="konq-sidebar.png" format="PNG" />
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</imageobject>
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<caption><para>The &konqueror; sidebar</para></caption>
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</mediaobject>
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<para>Navigating through the folders by using
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the folder view can become impractical. The sidebar provides
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shortcuts and special functions that make it easier to
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find what you are searching for.</para>
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<para>On the left edge of the sidebar be several buttons, each
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with a different icon, such as the following:</para>
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<!-- TODO: Add screenies of what each of these buttons looks like -->
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Bookmarks</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>As &konqueror; (the file manager) also serves as a very powerful
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web browser, it also has a bookmark functionality. Here you will find the
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same structure as in your <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu> menu.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Devices</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Next the sidebar provides a list of all known devices
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on your computer. These devices can be either physical drives —
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such as your hard disk, &CD-ROM; drive, or floppy disk drive —
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or virtual <quote>drives</quote> — such as remote shares or hard disk partitions.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>History</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>&konqueror; will remember the web pages you have visited and list them
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either by date or alphabetically in a tree structure. You can select the
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behavior by right clicking on the <guilabel>History</guilabel> item and
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selecting <guimenu>Sort by</guimenu>. Left click on an item (⪚
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<guilabel>www.kde.org</guilabel>) and &konqueror; will show you the documents you have visited. Left
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clicking on a document (⪚ <guilabel>index.html</guilabel>) will open
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the web site in the folder view.</para>
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<para>Right clicking on a history item, like <menuchoice><guimenu>www.kde.org</guimenu><guimenuitem>index.html</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice>, opens a slightly different popup menu: you will also find the
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item <guimenuitem>New Window</guimenuitem>, which makes &konqueror; open the
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site in a new window.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Home Directory</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The <guilabel>Home Directory</guilabel> item is in the sidebar's navigation
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panel. You will find your home directory as the first entry. Below you will
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find all folders of your home directory. Left clicking on any
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folder in this view opens the folder in the folder view. Alternatively, you can also
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work with the folders' context menus, create subfolders, and so on.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Sidebar Media Player</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<!-- TODO: think of a better solution for marking up the file -->
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<!-- formats. It should probably involve entities -->
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<para>Try dragging a music file (like <acronym>MP3</acronym>, Ogg, or
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<literal role="extension">.wav</literal> files)
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on the sidebar. The file will immediately be played.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Newsticker</guilabel></term>
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<!-- I don't have this button. Ought to check what it depends on -->
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<listitem>
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<para>Newsticker will display a customisable list of news sources. Right-click
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either on the <guilabel>Configure button</guilabel> or on one of the
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newssource buttons (e.g. TDE News, which is usually predefined) to add a new
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newsticker source.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Network</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Here you can browse the services provided by other computers on
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the network. The &lisa;-Daemon has to be started in order to work
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correctly. The network browser allows you to see a variety of services
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provided by a computer. You can easily browse <acronym>SMB</acronym>
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shares, &HTTP; sites, or transfer files via the secure FISH
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layer.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Root Directory</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Everything on a &UNIX;-based system is organized in a file
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system tree. This tree must have a root and here it is. The
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<guilabel>Root Directory</guilabel> function is like the
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<guilabel>Home Directory</guilabel> function. The only difference is
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that every folder is being displayed, not only your home
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directory.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><guilabel>Services</guilabel></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>This is somehow the "rest". Try browsing through the different
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items. If an Audio &CD; is in your &CD; or <acronym>DVD</acronym>
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drive you will be able to find everything on it and even more in the
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<guilabel>Audio CD Browser</guilabel> item (you can even compress
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audio files and save them on your hard drive with this
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function).</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="filemanager-icons">
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<title>Icons</title>
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<para>
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To select only one icon hold down the &Ctrl; key and click on the icon
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you want to select. If you want to select more than one icon, hold
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down &Ctrl; while you click on each of the items you want to select.
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Once one or more icons are selected you can do what you want with
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them. If you want to move or copy items, select them and then drag them
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(with the left mouse button down) to the desired location. When
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you release the mouse button a menu will come up offering you to
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<guimenuitem>Move</guimenuitem><indexterm><primary>Moving
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Files</primary></indexterm>,
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<guimenuitem>Copy</guimenuitem><indexterm><primary>Copying
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Files</primary></indexterm>, or <guimenuitem>Link</guimenuitem> the
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selected items. You can also <guimenuitem>Cancel</guimenuitem> your
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action.
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</para>
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<para>Many other actions can be applied to the selected items by
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right-clicking on one of the selected items, and choosing the action
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from the menu which appears. (The exact contents of this menu depend on the
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type of files selected, so it is called a <quote>context menu</quote>).</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="links">
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<title>Links and Shortcuts</title>
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<para>
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As already mentioned above you can link files or folders anywhere. It means
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that the linked folder will appear and behave just like the original in
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another location without consuming additional space on your harddrive.
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So if you, for example, have a number of documents, and only a few are used
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regularly, you can easily group them in a folder and create links in it.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2 id="trash">
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<title>The Trash</title>
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<indexterm><primary>Trash</primary></indexterm>
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<indexterm><primary><quote>Recycle Bin</quote></primary></indexterm>
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<para>Before a file is deleted in the &tde; file manager it will be
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moved to the <filename>Trash</filename> folder to give you the
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possibility of getting it back if you deleted it by accident. The
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trash bin will show all deleted items. You can select the one to be
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recovered and move it to its original place as described in <xref
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linkend="filemanager-icons" />. If you right click on the trash bin and select
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<guimenuitem>Empty trash bin</guimenuitem> the files in it will be
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deleted permanently.</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>The <ulink url="help:/konqueror">&konqueror; Handbook</ulink>
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has much more information about the features available in
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&konqueror;.</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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