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<authorgroup>
<author>&Mike.McBride; &Mike.McBride.mail;</author>
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<date>2002-10-16</date>
<releaseinfo>3.1</releaseinfo>

<keywordset>
<keyword>KDE</keyword>
<keyword>KControl</keyword>
<keyword>file manager</keyword>
</keywordset>
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<sect1 id="file-manager">
<title>File Manager</title>

<para>In this module, you can configure various aspects of
&konqueror;'s file manager functionality. </para>

<note><para>&konqueror;'s web browser functionality has its <ulink
url="help:/kcontrol/khtml/index.html">own configuration
modules</ulink>.</para></note>

<sect2 id="fileman-use">
<title>Use</title>

<para> The configuration options for the file manager are
organized under tabs as follows:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Appearance</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This tab contains options for customizing the appearance of
&konqueror; windows, such as the default font
text color.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Behavior</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This tab contains a couple of &konqueror;
global options.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Previews</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>On this tab, you can customize when &konqueror; should show
previews.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<sect3 id="fileman-appearance">
<title>Appearance</title>

<para>The following settings determine how text and colors are displayed in
&konqueror; File Manager mode windows.</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Standard font:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>This is the font used to display text such as file names in
&konqueror; windows.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Font size:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>

<para>Lets you control the size of text, while the <guilabel>Standard
Font</guilabel> setting determines the font face used.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Normal text color:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Determines the standard text color.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Height for icon text:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>The maximum number of lines that can be used to draw icon text.  Long lines are truncated at the end of the last line.</para>
<tip> <para>You can still see word-wrapped filenames by pausing the mouse pointer over the icon.</para></tip>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Width for icon text:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>The maximum width for the icon text when &konqueror; is in multi-column view mode.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Underline filenames:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>When <guilabel>Underline filenames</guilabel> is checked,
 filenames will be underlined so that they look like links on a web
 page.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Display file sizes in bytes:</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>The final check box on this page determines how &konqueror;
displays file sizes, when you are in one of the file manager modes
that normally shows this information.  If you check the
<guilabel>Display file sizes in bytes</guilabel> box then file sizes
are always shown in bytes.  If you leave it unchecked then file sizes
are shown in bytes, kilobytes or megabytes, depending on their
size.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect3>

<sect3 id="fileman-behav">
<title>Behavior</title>

<variablelist>
<title><guilabel>Misc Options</guilabel></title>
<varlistentry>
<term>Open folders in separate windows</term>
<listitem> <para>If this option is checked, a new
&konqueror; window will be created when you open a
folder, rather than simply showing that folder's contents in the
 current
window.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Show network operations in a single window</term>
<listitem>
<para>If unchecked, and you download a
file, a dialog box will appear that shows the status of the
download.</para>

<screenshot>
  <screeninfo>Download Dialog Box</screeninfo>
  <mediaobject>
  <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kfileman2.png"
 format="PNG"/></imageobject>
  <textobject> <phrase>Download Dialog Box</phrase> </textobject>
  <caption>
  <para>Individual Download Dialog Box</para>
  </caption>
  </mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>If you start a new transfer, another dialog box will
appear. (&Netscape; users will be familiar with
this behavior) </para>

<para>If checked, all transfer status windows will be grouped
together under a single dialog box.</para>
<screenshot>
  <screeninfo>Download Dialog Box</screeninfo>
  <mediaobject>
  <imageobject><imagedata fileref="kfileman1.png"
 format="PNG"/></imageobject>
  <textobject><phrase>Download Dialog Box</phrase></textobject>
  <caption>
  <para>Collected Download Dialog Box</para>
  </caption>
  </mediaobject>
</screenshot>

<para>If you choose to use the Collected download dialog box, you can
delete transfers by clicking once on the transfer you want to cancel,
then clicking the <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> Button on the
left.</para>

</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show file tips</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para> Here you can control if, when moving the mouse over a file, you
want to see a small popup window with additional information about
that file.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Show previews in file tips</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Here you can control if the file tip should show a
thumbnail preview of the file.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Home URL</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>This is the &URL; (&eg; a
folder or a web page) where &konqueror; will jump to
when the <guibutton>Home</guibutton> button is pressed.</para><para>The
default is the users home folder, indicated with a
<literal>~</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>You can set a path that is your <guilabel>Home URL</guilabel> by
typing into the text field, or using the <guiicon>browse</guiicon>
icon.  The default is <literal>~</literal> which is a standard
shortcut for your $<envar>HOME</envar> folder.  When you choose the
<guiicon>home</guiicon> icon on your panel, in a file open or save
dialog, or from within &konqueror; in file manager mode, this is the
folder you will be shown.</para>

<para>The <guilabel>Ask confirmation for</guilabel> setting tells
&konqueror; what to do when you choose to <quote>Delete</quote>,
<quote>Trash</quote>, or <quote>Shred</quote> a file in a &konqueror;
window.  If any box is checked, &konqueror; asks for confirmation before
performing the corresponding action.</para>

</sect3>

<sect3>
<title>Previews</title>

<para>&konqueror; has a
preview feature for many file types, including <acronym>HTML</acronym>
files, images, &PostScript; and <acronym>PDF</acronym>, sound, web
archives (if you have the appropriate &konqueror; plugin installed)
and text files.</para>

<para>If you enable previews for one of these, files of that particular
file type will not be represented by standard icons in the filemanager, but
will instead be shown as miniature previews.  On slow computers, the
previews can take some time to show up, so you might not want to enable
this feature.</para>

<para>In this module you can specify which <quote>protocols</quote>
you wish the previews to be available for.  Creating the previews
requires that &konqueror; download at least part of the file, in order
to create the preview.  &konqueror;, like the rest of &kde; is
entirely network transparent, and will treat a remote &FTP; folder
just as if it was on your local hard drive.  This can result in a
delay, especially if you are viewing, for example, a folder full of
images over a slow network connection.</para>

<para>For each protocol, you can independently enable or disable
previews.  For example, you might enable previews for
<acronym>NFS</acronym> mounted drives if you have a fast network, but
disable them for &FTP; because your Internet connection is via a
modem.</para>

<para>You can further refine the maximum size file that &konqueror;
will attempt to show a preview for.  The default is 1 MB.  In other
words, by default, if a file is 900 kB in size, and the protocol you
are viewing the folder with is enabled, then &konqueror; will
create a preview icon for it.  If the file is 1.1 MB in size,
&konqueror; will not make a preview, even if the protocol is
enabled.</para>

<para>You can turn on and off previews <quote>on the fly</quote> from
within &konqueror;, using the <guimenu>View</guimenu> menu. For
example, if you normally want to see image previews on every protocol,
but find a particular server is very slow to send you the data, you
might turn it off for the present, and turn it on again later.</para>

<para>You may also like to enable the checkbox <guilabel>Increase size
of previews relative to icons</guilabel>, in order to see more
information in the thumbnails.</para>

<para>Many image files already contain a thumbnail.  You can enable
the <guilabel>Use thumbnails embedded in files</guilabel> to make use
of these. This will save time waiting for thumbnails to be created
when viewing a folder full of images you have not previously seen in
&konqueror;.</para>

</sect3>

</sect2>

</sect1>

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