The Tracker is highly customizable, and the changes are done in
the Tracker Settings.
Icons
In the Icons Preflet you can set the size of your SVG icons and
thumbnails in your active Tracker window.

The Preflet also lets you arrange your icons or thumbnails in a
grid and you can choose if you want to have the text information
about the file on the right or on the bottom of the files.
IconMode Rows gives you extra information about a volume
or a folder. For a volume the second row shows you the space left
and for a folder items inside it. The third row

By default, all image files are shown as icons. By activating the
Add-On thumbnailer all image
files in the current folder will be shown as thumbnails (scaled
down versions of the images).
Desktop

First of all, you will have to choose between Show Disks Icon
and Show Volumes On Desktop. Show Volumes On Desktop
is chosen by default, and will show all volumes direct on the desktop.
By enabling Show Shared Volumes On Desktop, you will also
be able to access smb mounts directly. Show Disks Icon will
keep all mounted volumes in a folder on the desktop.
Integrate Non-Boot BeOS Desktops: If you have Zeta on more
then one partition, and choose to mount them in the disk
mount menu, this option will show all the icons present in the
non-boot BeOS desktop folders. Most users will have some data files,
folders and symlinks on their desktops, integrating other desktop
folders will in those cases fill up your desktop and making it harder
for you to keep the overview of your data.
Eject When Unmounting: Enabling the feature will automatically
eject for instance the CD when you unmount it from the deskbar.
Windows

By activating Show Full Path In Title Bar you can always
see where you are when navigating through your file system:

Single Window Browse: By default the single window browse
is turned off and once you double click on a folder it will open
a new window. With single window browsing enable, the current open
window will be replaced with a new window when you double-click
on a folder.
Show Navigator: This option is related to Single Window
Browse, will therefore only be enabled as an option if you first
choose Singe Window Browse. The option will add a toolbar to the
Tracker window, with arrows letting you move backwards, forwards
and upwards in the folder structure.
Transparent Selection Box: Draws up a transparent square
showing what files you have selected.
Sort Folder Names First: The option will first show the
folders in a Tracker window and then the rest of the files in that
window (folder).
Hide Dot Files: Some configuration files has in UNIX system
. (dot) in front of the file name. If you have a lot of them, they
can easily fill up a window. Hiding them also minimizes the risk
of deleting them.
File Panel

File Panel Root is Desktop: By default the file panel root
is set to be your home folder. If you are mostly working with documents,
we recommend that you keep the default option and store all your
files in the Home folder.
Time Format

You can set the Tracker to show the time in a 24 Hour or
12 Hour mode. Another option is how the Tracker should show
dates. For this, three options are available: Year-Month-Day,
Day-Month-Year or Month-Day-Year. The last option
in this panel is what kind of Separator you would like to
use in the Date Order.

As you can see from the two screenshots, changes in Time Format
applies to the Modified attribute. First part of Modified
is the Date Order and the second part is the Clock.

Trash

Don't Move Files To Trash: The option lets you delete the
files directly. By default the files you want to delete would only
be moved to the Trash folder,
and you would later empty it.
Ask Before Delete: This option simple lets you get an extra
warning before you mistakenly delete the files in the Trash folder.
Once deleted you can not restore the files and the data is lost.
Volume Icons

Last panel is the Volume Icons, here you can enable Show
Space Bars on Volumes. The tool SVM
is also capable of showing the available/used disk space in the
Deskbar as replicant.
A nice feature in the Tracker when you choose Save or Save
As..., it will open the FilePanel and you will see that you
have a "xx Itmes" field in the left edge. By typing in
for instance "m", it will automatically jump to the alphabethically
first folder that starts with an "m". Making it real easy
to find the right folder, when you have many of them!
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