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* Renamed "Showimage" to "ShowImage". Thanks mmadia. * Some more tweaking of box padding in the CSS. * Added "Expander", adjusted contents of applications.html git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@29648 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
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7.2 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
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"../../html-dtd/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US">
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<head>
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* Copyright 2008-2009, Haiku. All rights reserved.
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* Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.
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* Authors:
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* Humdinger <humdingerb@gmail.com>
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*
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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
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<meta name="robots" content="all" />
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<title>Deskbar</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../Haiku-doc.css" />
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</head>
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<body>
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<div class="logo">
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<img src="../images/logo.png" alt="logo" width="372" height="86" />
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<div class="title">Deskbar</div>
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</div>
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<div class="topnav">
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<p>
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<a href="contents.html">Contents</a>
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Previous: <a href="tracker-add-ons.html">Tracker Add-Ons</a>
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Next: <a href="filetypes.html">Filetypes</a>
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="content">
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<p>The Deskbar is the little panel that by default is located in the upper right corner of the screen. It's Haiku's version of Windows' taskbar with its Start button. It contains the Deskbar menu from where you can start applications and preferences, a tray with a clock and other tools below that and a list of currently running programs at the bottom.</p>
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<img src="../images/deskbar-images/positions.png" alt="positions" width="640" height="480" />
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<p>You can move the Deskbar to any corner or as a bar along the upper or lower border of the screen by gripping the knobbly area on the left side of the tray and drag&drop it into the new position. You can also fold it into a more compact layout by drag&dropping the knobbly area onto the Deskbar menu.</p>
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<h1><a id="deskbar-menu" name="deskbar-menu">The Deskbar Menu</a></h1>
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<p>A menu opens when you click on the Deskbar's uppermost part:</p>
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<img src="../images/deskbar-images/settings.png" alt="settings.png" width="521" height="309" />
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<ul>
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<li><p><b>About This System...</b> - Shows some basic information of the system, licenses and the credits of the Haiku project.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>Find...</b> - Opens the <a href="queries.html">Query</a> dialog.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>Show Replicants</b> - Shows/hides the little Replicant widget you use to drag it around, remove or access its context menu.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>Deskbar Settings</b></p>
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<table summary="layout" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
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<tr><td><span class="menu">Configure Deskbar Menu...</span></td><td> </td><td>Opens a panel to configure the Deskbar menu (see below).</td></tr>
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<tr><td><span class="menu">Always on Top</span></td><td> </td><td>The Deskbar always stays above all other windows.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><span class="menu">Auto Raise</span></td><td> </td><td>The Deskbar pops to the front if the mouse pointer touches it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><span class="menu">Sort Running Applications</span></td><td> </td><td>Sorts the list of running programs alphabetically.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><span class="menu">Tracker always First</span></td><td> </td><td>Even if you sort alphabetically, the Tracker entry always stays first in the list.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><span class="menu">24 Hour Clock</span></td><td> </td><td>Toggles between 24 and 12 hour clock.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><span class="menu">Show Seconds</span></td><td> </td><td>Adds the display of seconds to the clock.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><span class="menu">European Date</span></td><td> </td><td>Shows the date in European format: day-month-year</td></tr>
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<tr><td><span class="menu">---- Full Date ----</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="onelinetop"><span class="menu">Show Application Expander</span></td><td> </td><td>Provides a small widget to show/hide all windows of a program directly under its entry in the Deskbar.</td></tr>
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<tr><td><span class="menu">Expand New Applications</span></td><td> </td><td>Newly launched programs have their windows automatically expanded under their entry in the Deskbar.</td></tr>
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</table></li>
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<li><p><b>Restart</b> - Restarts the system.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>Shutdown</b> - Shuts down the system.</p></li>
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<li><p><b>Recent Documents, Folders, Applications</b> - List the last recently opened documents, folders and applications (see <span class="menu">Configure Deskbar Menu...</span> below).
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<li><p><b>Applications, Demos, Deskbar Applets, Preferences</b> - List of installed applications, demos, applets and preferences (see <span class="menu">Configure Deskbar Menu...</span> below).</p></li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Configure Deskbar Menu...</h2>
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<img src="../images/deskbar-images/configure.png" alt="configure.png" width="359" height="416" />
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<p>In this panel you set the number of recent documents, folders and applications that are shown in the Deskbar, or if you show them at all.</p>
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<p>Here, you also configure folders and their contents, which are by default Applications, Demos, Deskbar Applets, and Preferences. You can add your own entries and edit or remove items.<br />
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This part of the panel is just a representation of the folder <span class="path">/boot/home/config/be/</span>. You can just as well link or copy files and folders directly in Tracker to configure your Deskbar.</p>
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<p>Even easier is it to simply drag a file or folder and drop it where you want it into the Deskbar.</p>
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<h1><a id="tray" name="tray">The Tray</a></h1>
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<img src="../images/deskbar-images/calendar.png" alt="calendar.png" width="229" height="210" />
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<p>Among other things, the tray is housing the clock. Left-click it to toggle between date and time. Right-click it to hide/show it or launch the <a href="prefs-time.html">Time</a> preferences to set it.<br />
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Here you can also launch a calendar that also appears, when you hold down the left mouse button on the clock for a little time.</p>
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<p>Any program can install an icon in the tray to provide an interface to the user. The email system, for instance, shows a different symbol when there's unread mail and offers a context menu to e.g. create or check for new mail. <span class="app">ProcessController</span> is another example that uses its icon in the tray to provide information (CPU/memory usage) and to offer a context menu.</p>
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<h1><a id="list-of-apps" name="list-of-apps">The list of running programs</a></h1>
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<img src="../images/deskbar-images/list-of-apps.png" alt="list-of-apps.png" width="229" height="306" />
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<p>You can change to a specific running application by clicking on its entry in the Deskbar and choosing (one of) its windows, from the submenu. By right-clicking you can minimize or close a window or the entire application.</p>
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<p>If you activated Expanders in the Deskbar settings, you can expand/collapse the list of windows directly under an application's entry.</p>
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<p>In front of every application's windows is a symbol providing info on its state. A bright symbol means a window is visible, a dark one that it's minimized. Three lines in front of a symbol shows that it's not on the current workspace.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="bottomnav">
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<p>
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<a href="contents.html">Contents</a>
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Previous: <a href="tracker-add-ons.html">Tracker Add-Ons</a>
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Next: <a href="filetypes.html">Filetypes</a>
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</p>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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