GTKtalog User's Guide - Mon Sep 24 00:40:59 CEST 2001

Jean-Baptiste JULIEN

            
          

Gordon TAYLOR

    
  

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to GTKtalog
2. Quick start
2.1. Scanning
2.2. Finding
3. Smart configuration of GTKtalog
4. Scanning
5. MIME Types
6. Virtual File System (VFS)
7. Categories & Descriptions
7.1. Manage categories
7.2. Assigning
7.3. Propagate in subdirectories and files
8. Find a file
8.1. Simple searches
8.2. Extended searches
8.2.1. File name match
8.2.2. Location
8.2.3. Date and size
8.2.4. Description & Category
8.2.5. Replace
9. Reports
10. Statistics
11. Merging
12. Managing catalog files
12.1. What are catalog files
12.2. Where is this #%@$! catalog file
12.3. Copy/backup a catalog file
12.4. Restore a catalog file
13. Preferences
13.1. Disk setup
13.1.1. Mount method
13.1.2. Cdrom options
13.2. General Options
13.2.1. Prefer better but slower disk size evaluation
13.2.2. Warn if the CD is mounted
13.2.3. Eject the CD after a fast scan
13.2.4. Read the CD name on the CD
13.2.5. Prompt to validate the CD name
13.2.6. Double click on a file to see information
13.2.7. Date format gets from locale settings
13.2.8. Date format user defined
13.2.9. Display directory sizes
13.2.10. Max number of recent files
13.2.11. Save the left tree window size
13.2.12. Save the main window position and size
13.2.13. Toolbar style
13.2.14. New search type
13.2.15. Display splash screen
13.3. Load&save options
13.3.1. Common options
13.3.2. Load options
13.3.3. Save options
13.4. Scan mime type
13.4.1. Try to get the mime
13.4.2. Virtual file system scan mode
13.4.3. Retrieve information about files
13.4.4. Use the default information plugin
13.5. Virtual File Systems
13.6. Information Plugins
13.7. MIME type icons
14. GTKtalog user interface commands
14.1. Toolbar
14.2. Main window commands
14.2.1. Multi selection
14.2.2. View file
14.2.3. Right frame ordering
14.3. Menus
14.3.1. File
14.3.2. Edit
14.3.3. Catalog
14.3.4. Settings
14.3.5. Help
14.4. Contextual menus
14.4.1. Disk contextual menu
14.4.2. Directory contextual menu
14.4.3. VFS Directory contextual menu
14.4.4. File contextual menu
15. Errors
List of Tables
13-1. Indexing a plugin output line