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Icons: Small images representing an application, folder, shortcut, or system resource (such as CD-ROM or floppy drive) to which you point with the mouse and double-click to activate.

The Tracker Settings

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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