The K Desktop Environment

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8. Menus

This section explains all menu options that have not been explained elsewhere. Most are straightforward; these explanations are more for the sake of completeness.

8.1 The 'File' Menu

Open

This will clear the old contents of the tree window and open a directory selection box. The directory you select there will be scanned and displayed in the tree window.

Add

This will keep the old contents of the tree window and open a directory selection box. The directory you select there will be scanned and displayed in the tree window in addition to the directories already there.

Clear

This will clear the contents of the tree window.

You can use this prior to a drag'n'drop operation from a KFM window. If you don't clear the tree window, drag'n'drop will act like the 'Add' command from the 'File' menu.

Settings...

This will open the settings dialog.

Remember to save your settings to disk to make them permanent.

Save Settings

Save modified settings to disk.

If you don't do that, all modifications to settings (including cleanups) will be temporary. They will be lost upon exiting the program.

Quit

This will quit the program.

8.2 The 'View' Menu

Move Up

This will close the current subtree and move the selection up one level.

This is handy when navigating with the keyboard.

Refresh All

Refresh everything currently displayed in the tree window, i.e. re-scan all directories.

Refresh Selected Branch

Refresh the currently selected directory branch, i.e. re-scan directories from here on.

8.3 The 'Clean up' Menu

See the exhaustive section about 'cleaning up'.

8.4 The 'Help' Menu

Come on, you don't really need help about the 'Help' menu, do you?

8.5 The Toolbar

All toolbar buttons provide actions that are also available as menu entries. Refer to the respective menus for details.

8.6 The Context Menu

The context menu (available on right-click on tree objects) contains the cleanup actions as well as some other options that are available via other menus as well. Refer to the respective menus for details.

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