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+<!-- <?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN"
+ "dtd/kdex.dtd"> -->
+
+<chapter id="filemanager">
+<title>The File Manager</title>
+
+<para>The default file manager in &tde; is &konqueror;. Please refer to
+the <ulink url="help:/konqueror/index.html">
+Konqueror Handbook</ulink> for detailed information.</para>
+
+<qandaset>
+
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para>How can I change the appearance of a folder in
+&konqueror;?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para>Right-click the folder, select <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>,
+click on the large icon in the dialog which appears, and choose another
+icon.</para> <para>To change the icon displayed for entries in the
+<guimenu>TDE Menu</guimenu>, use the <application>Menu Editor</application>,
+located at <menuchoice><guisubmenu>Settings</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Menu
+Editor</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
+</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para>How can I do non-anonymous &FTP; transfers with &konqueror;?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para>Normally, if you enter a &URL; like
+<userinput>ftp://<replaceable>ftp.somehost.com</replaceable></userinput>,
+&konqueror; will attempt an anonymous login to the &FTP; server. If you
+want to login as a particular user, enter a &URL; like
+<userinput>ftp://<replaceable>[email protected]</replaceable></userinput>
+instead. &konqueror; will ask for your password and connect to the
+server.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para>How do I specify the startup folder for &konqueror;?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para>With the desktop Home icon, using the &RMB;, select the icon and choose
+<guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>. Select the
+<guilabel>URL</guilabel> tab. Type <filename class="directory">/whereever/you/want</filename>
+with the folder you would like &konqueror; to start in.</para>
+<para>From within &konqueror; the process is similar. Ensure the Navigation Panel is active
+(press <keycap>F9</keycap>). From the Navigation Panel tabs, select the Home icon.
+In the Navigation Panel directory, use the &RMB; to select the top level <filename class="directory">Home Folder</filename> and select <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para>How do I rename files?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para>Simply <mousebutton>right</mousebutton> click on the file and select
+<guimenuitem>Rename</guimenuitem> or press the keyboard shortcut <keycap>F2</keycap> with a file selected.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question>
+<para>Where did the delete entry from my right-click context menu go?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para>The Delete context menu entry that bypasses the
+Trash can is not displayed by default. To enable that menu option, go to
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+&konqueror;</guimenuitem></menuchoice > and select
+<guilabel>Behaviour</guilabel> in the iconbar to the left. Enable the checkbox
+<guilabel>Show 'Delete' context menu entries which bypass the
+trashcan</guilabel>.
+</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question><para>How do I configure the programs that &konqueror; uses to
+open different types of files?</para></question>
+<answer>
+<para>In order to configure file associations, you should go to the
+&kcontrolcenter; and choose the item <guimenuitem>File
+Associations</guimenuitem> under the category <guimenu>TDE
+Components</guimenu>.</para>
+<para>
+Suppose the default <acronym>PDF</acronym> viewer is now &kghostview; and
+you would prefer to use <application>KPDF</application> as a viewer. You
+would simply type <userinput>pdf</userinput> in the search box at the top of
+the dialog, choose <guimenuitem>pdf</guimenuitem> in the
+<guimenu>application</guimenu> group and move
+<application>KPDF</application> up. In the <guilabel>Embedding</guilabel>
+tab you can also choose which component other applications will use to
+display files (for example, when viewing files in &konqueror; or using
+&ark;'s embedded viewer).
+</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question><para>When I try to click on a folder in &konqueror;, I get the
+message: <quote>There appears to be a configuration error. You have
+associated Konqueror with inode/directory, but it cannot handle this file
+type.</quote></para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para>Make sure the embedding settings for inode/directory
+are correct:
+<orderedlist>
+<listitem><para>In &konqueror;, go to
+<menuchoice><guimenu>Settings</guimenu><guimenuitem>Configure
+Konqueror</guimenuitem></menuchoice> and then to the <guilabel>File
+Associations</guilabel> page.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Open
+inode->directory in the tree view.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Click on
+the
+<guilabel>Embedding</guilabel> tab. Make sure that <guilabel>Left Click
+Action</guilabel> is set to <guilabel>Show file in embedded
+viewer</guilabel>, and by default <guilabel>Icon View (konq_iconview)</guilabel>
+is at the top
+of <guilabel>Services Preference Order.</guilabel></para></listitem>
+</orderedlist>
+</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry> <question> <para>What are <option>%i</option> and
+<option>%m</option> parameters in a file's Properties Command line?</para>
+</question>
+<answer>
+<para>They are used by all &tde; applications (since they are implemented in
+<classname>TDEApplication</classname> and all good &tde; programs create a
+<classname>TDEApplication</classname> object before they even look at the
+command line arguments).</para> <para>A standard line for a &tde;
+application looks like this: <userinput><command>foo</command>
+<option>... %i %m -caption \"%c\"</option></userinput>. Pretty confusing,
+-but it has been designed in that way so that it can integrate legacy,
+non-&tde; applications as smoothly as possible. &konqueror;, when executing
+the line above, will extend the command to
+<userinput><command><replaceable>foo</replaceable></command> <option>-icon
+something.png -miniicon something_mini.png -caption \"The
+Foo\"</option></userinput>. Both the icon and the mini-icon as well as "The
+Foo" are properties defined in the <filename>.desktop</filename> file. If
+the icons are not defined, they simply default to the executable name
+<replaceable>foo</replaceable>.</para>
+
+<para>This way a user can change these things in &kmenuedit; for his or her
+applications. The <option>-caption</option> option is important, because no
+user will accept that the menu item <guimenuitem>Editor</guimenuitem> starts
+something called <guilabel>kedit-0.9pl4-build47</guilabel>. Instead, users
+expect a window called <guilabel>Editor</guilabel>. Furthermore these
+names are localized, &ie; an American English user launches
+<guimenuitem>CD-Player</guimenuitem> and gets a window called
+<guilabel>CD-Player</guilabel> while a German user launches
+<guimenuitem>CD-Spieler</guimenuitem> and gets a window called
+<guilabel>CD-Spieler</guilabel>.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+<qandaentry>
+<question><para>How do I make &konqueror; start up without a menu bar?
+I can't save a view profile when the menu bar is invisible!</para>
+</question>
+
+<answer><para>The easiest way to do this is to edit &konqueror;'s
+configuration file manually. Add the following lines to
+<filename>~/.trinity/share/config/konquerorrc</filename>:
+<programlisting>
+[KonqMainWindow]
+MenuBar=Disabled
+</programlisting>
+</para>
+<para>On restarting &konqueror;, the menubar should be hidden.</para>
+</answer>
+</qandaentry>
+
+</qandaset>
+</chapter>