<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "../welcome/html-dtd/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"> <head> <!-- * * Copyright 2008, Haiku. All rights reserved. * Distributed under the terms of the MIT License. * * Authors: * Humdinger <humdingerb@gmail.com> * --> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <meta name="robots" content="all" /> <title>Tracker Add-Ons</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../welcome/welcome.css" /> </head> <body> <div class="logo"> <img src="../welcome/welcome-images/logo.png" alt="logo" width="372" height="86" /> <div class="title">Tracker Add-Ons</div> </div> <div class="topnav"> <p> <a href="contents.html">Contents</a>     Previous: <a href="tracker.html">Tracker</a>     Next: <a href="keyboard-shortcuts.html">Keyboard shortcuts</a> </p> </div> <div class="content"> <p>Applications can install add-ons so they can be invoked easily on a selection of files from Tracker. Only the add-ons that can handle a specific filetype are presented under <i>Add-Ons</i> from the context menu or the <i>File</i> menu of a Tracker window. Some add-ons don't necessarily need a file to work on and are thus always present.</p> <p>Tracker Add-Ons, or links to applications that can act as add-ons, can be installed in three different locations (see topic <a href="filesystem-layout.html">Filesystem layout</a>):</p> <table summary="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr><td><tt>/boot/beos/system/add-ons/Tracker/</tt></td><td>   </td><td> for system provided add-ons</td></tr> <tr><td><tt>/boot/common/add-ons/Tracker/</tt></td><td>   </td><td> for add-ons available to every user</td></tr> <tr><td><tt>/boot/home/config/add-ons/Tracker/</tt></td><td>   </td><td> for add-ons only available to yourself</td></tr> </table> <p>The file name of an add-on can be suffixed with a dash and capital letter, and is then available via keyboard shortcut. For example, <i>Open Target Folder-T</i> opens with <tt>ALT+AltGr+T</tt> (at least with my keymap, you may have a different key combination).<br /> Of course, you have to take care of possible shortcut collisions when deciding on a shortcut. You can't have the same for different add-ons.</p> <h2><a id="system-add-ons" name="system-add-ons">Haiku's Tracker Add-Ons</a></h2> <p>These Tracker Add-Ons come with every Haiku installation:</p> <table summary="layout" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4"> <tr><td class="onelinetop"><b>Background</b><i>-B</i></td> <td valign="top">Opens the <a href="preferences/prefs-backgrounds.html">Background</a> preferences to change the color or image of the Desktop or any folder. Invoked on an image file the Background panel is launched with that image already loaded as a potential background.</td></tr> <tr><td class="onelinetop"><b>DiskUsage</b><i>-I</i></td> <td valign="top">Starts the <a href="applications/apps-diskusage.html">DiskUsage</a> application with the according folder as basis.</td></tr> <tr><td class="onelinetop"><b>FileType</b><i>-F</i></td> <td valign="top">Invoked on a file, opens its specific <a href="filetypes.html">FileType</a> panel, otherwise the FileTypes preferences are launched.</td></tr> <tr><td class="onelinetop"><b>Open Target Folder</b><i>-T</i></td> <td valign="top">It can only be used on a linked file and opens the folder that file lives in.</td></tr> <tr><td class="onelinetop"><b>TextSearch</b><i>-G</i></td> <td valign="top">Starts the <a href="applications/apps-textsearch.html">TextSearch</a> application to look for a string in the selected folder (and its subfolders).</td></tr> <tr><td class="onelinetop"><b>ZipOMatic</b><i>-Z</i></td> <td valign="top">A selection of files will be added to a zip archive, invoked without a selection opens a panel to create an archive via drag&drop.</td></tr> </table> </div> <div class="bottomnav"> <p> <a href="contents.html">Contents</a>     Previous: <a href="tracker.html">Tracker</a>     Next: <a href="keyboard-shortcuts.html">Keyboard shortcuts</a> </p> </div> </body> </html>