Desktop is a bespoke file manager designed to access and work with Metview icons. It is meant to replace the current user interface (called Metview UI) in the near future.
You need to start Metview with the -desktop flag. At the moment the best version to try Desktop out is metview_dev, so the command is as follows:
metview_dev -desktop
Desktop's user interface is divided into six parts.
Folders are represented by this icon in the user interface:
To enter a folder double-click or right-click Open on the icon. Folder navigation is based on the Back, Forward and Up arrows and on the breadcrumbs, which are all located in the toolbar.
Each visited folder is added to the folder history that can be accessed via the History menu (it can store at most 20 folders).
Each Metview session defines a root folder (by default it is ~/metview). This folder is set as both the home and root folder for Desktop! This has two implications. First, the home icon in Desktop always means the Metview root folder (and not the UNIX home folder)! Second, we cannot directly access files outside this file system from within Desktop but we need to use symbolic links. |
There are two folder view modes available: icon view mode and detailed view mode. They can be set to each tab separately through the View menu or using these toolbar icons:
Tabs
Enter folder
Icon editors
History
Preferences
Log
Monitor