Tracker

Tracker este interfața grafică pentru toate fișierele. Vă permite să creați fișiere și dosare noi sau să căutați, lansați sau redenumiți precum și să copiați sau să ștergeți fișiere și dosare existente.

Being an application like any other (the Desktop with its icons is really just a fullscreen window in the background), Tracker appears with its windows in the Deskbar and can be quit and restarted. The easiest way to quit and restart a crashed or frozen Tracker (or a wayward Deskbar) is to call the Team Monitor.

Montare de volume

In order to access a harddisk, CD, USB stick etc., you first have to mount the volume, that is, let the system know it's there. This is done with a right-click on the Desktop or an already mounted volume (like the boot disk) and choosing the volume from the Mount submenu. You find the same Mount menu in the Deskbar.

There are also Settings so you don't have to mount everything manually after every bootup.
The above settings will automatically mount any storage device you connect/insert and also mount all disks on bootup that were mounted previously.

Navigare

By default, when you double-click a folder, Tracker opens a new window while leaving the parent window open. This can quickly lead to an overcrowded desktop.
You can prevent that by holding down the OPT key, which automatically closes the parent window.
This is also true for keyboard navigation. For more on that, see topic Shortcuts and key combinations.

Moving through your folders is one of Tracker's main purposes, just like the file managers on other platforms. Haiku's Tracker has some unique features that will help you doing that efficiently.

Forare în submeniuri

În loc să dați dublu clic dosar după dosar, există o metodă mai bună pentru forare:

Right-click onto a folder, and at the top of the usual context menu you'll find a submenu of the current folder that let's you navigate down a level. Just move down the hierarchy until you find the file or folder you're looking for and click on it to open it. The above shows the contents of the folder /boot/home/config/.
If you do the above while dragging a file with you, it will be moved to where you eventually drop it.

O metodă similară poate fi utilizată din orice fereastră Tracker:

Click on the area in the lower left, where the number of items is listed, and you'll get submenus for every level above your current location. From there you can drill down through the folders as usual.

Note, that the Desktop is always the topmost level as that is where Tracker shows mounted volumes. So, if you want to go to another disk, you first have to navigate to the top (Desktop) and cross over to your other disk from there.

You'll get the same submenu-navigating when you drag a file over a folder. After a short while of hovering, a submenu pops up and you can drill down to your destination. If you initiated the drag with the right mousebutton, you can choose between copying, moving or linking the file when you release the mouse.

Salt la fișiere cu tastare-înainte

You may be familiar with the concept from file managers of other operating systems: typing the first few letters of a filename will jump to the first file matching these starting characters. Haiku took the idea a step further. If there isn't a file starting with those letters it will jump to the first file including the string anywhere in its name. And if there's nothing with the string in its filename, the attributes are searched next.

In the above example, there are many files starting with "Haiku logo", rendering simpler approaches to typing ahead quite useless. In Haiku however, typing "web" jumps right to its first occurence in "Haiku logo - website". The characters you enter appear in the bottom left corner where you normally find the item count of all files in the folder. A second after entering a character, the display jumps back to normal and you're ready for a new type ahead search.

Filtrare tastare-înainte

Instead of jumping to a file while typing, there's also the option to filter out all files not matching your type-ahead string. This can improve clarity dramatically, especially when dealing with crowded folders. By using SHIFT SPACE as delimiter, you can even filter on multiple strings.
Contrary to type-ahead jumping, the filtering will stick until you press ESC or close the window (or leave the folder if you're using Single Window Navigation).
This type-ahead filtering is set in the Tracker preferences.

Aspect

Ferestrele Tracker oferă trei moduri de vizualizare diferite din meniul Fereastră:

• Vizualizare pictogramă (ALT 1) - Pictograme mari, puteți modifica dimensiunea din submeniu sau mări/micșora dimensiunea lor cu ALT +/-.

• Vizualizare pictogramă mini (ALT 2) - Pictograme mici.

• List view (ALT 3) - A detailed list of your files enabling you to show/hide file attributes (see topic Attributes.)

Meniul Fereastră oferă un număr de alte funcții:

• Resize to fit (ALT Y) - Resizes the window to its ideal size.

• Arrange by… - Only available in Icon or Mini icon view, a submenu allows to set the sorting order to various properties:

  • Name, Real name, Size, Modified, Created, Kind, Location, Permissions

  • Reverse order - Inverts the sorting order

  • Clean up (ALT K) - Aligns all icons to an invisible grid. Hold down SHIFT and the menu becomes Clean up all which additionally sorts all icons according to the above selected criterium.

• Select… (SHIFT ALT A) - Select files according to a regular expression.

• Close (ALT W) - Closes the window. Hold down SHIFT and the menu becomes Close all which closes every Tracker window.

• Close all in workspace (ALT Q) - Closes every Tracker window in the current workspace. A useful shortcut if you forgot to hold the OPT key while clicking through folders and all those still open Tracker windows clutter your workspace.

Restul funcțiilor se explică de la sine destul de bine, rămân doar preferințele Tracker.

Preferințe Tracker

Window | Preferences… opens a panel that offers a number of settings that, where not obvious, should become clear once tried out. Since all settings are applied live, you'll immediately see the changes.
So, in short, the not so obvious settings:

• Desktop - Decide if all mounted disks appear directly on the Desktop or in a window after clicking a single Disk icon sitting on the Desktop.

• Windows - You can set Single window navigation, i.e. a double-clicked folder doesn't open in its own window, but inside the already open window instead, replacing the view of its parent folder. This is not the same as clicking while holding the OPT key, as described above, because you'll lose the per window saved position and size.

  

  Before you switch Tracker to Single window navigation mode, because that may feel more familiar to you, we recommend giving the menu based browsing a try first, as that may actually work much faster for you after getting used to. On the other hand, single window browsing offers a Navigator where you can enter or copy & paste a path name and use back, forward and up buttons.

  Activating Type-ahead filtering will filter the contents of a Tracker window while you type to only display the files matching your string in their name or any currently displayed attribute. See above.

  Hide dotfiles and you won't see files starting with a ".", a popular naming convention for configuration files under Linux.

  You can Generate image thumbnails which will replace the standard icons for image files.

• Volume icons - Set the color of an optional indicator of free space that's shown besides a disk's icon.

• Disk mount - Define when and what disks are mounted automatically, as described above under "Mounting volumes".

Apropo, acest panou este disponibil și ca Tracker din Preferințe Deskbar.

Lucrul cu fișiere

Când sunt invocate pentru un fișier selectat, majoritatea comenzilor din meniul Fișier sunt de asemenea oferite de meniul contextual prin clic dreapta pe acel fișier.

Ca de obicei comenzile sunt destul de clare.

• Căutare... - Caută un fișier sau dosar. Pentru mai multe informații, vedeți Query.

• New - Create a new folder or any other file based on a template.

  

  Choosing Edit templates… at the bottom opens the folder /boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/Tracker New Templates. Create a file or folder there and it will appear as a template in the New menu. The new file/folder created by the template will have its filetype, filename, contents, and all its other attributes. In case of a folder, it'll also have its window size/position and attribute column layout.

  In the screenshot above, you see the custom template folders "Email folder" and "Music folder". Both will create folders with those same custom overlay icons and have the relevant attributes already set.

  You can also sort your templates into custom submenus. Just choose Add new submenu… and a new special folder gets created in Tracker New Templates that you then rename to fit its purpose. Copy your template files there to appear in the new submenu. The screenshot above shows the submenus "C dev files" and "Office files".

• Open with… - A submenu offers all applications that can handle this filetype.

  

  The preferred application that would open the file when double-clicked, is checkmarked. This submenu lists first those applications that can handle the exact filetype, in this case it's a text file, the type text/plain. Next come all applications that can handle that supertype in general, here text/*. Last in the list are those that can deal with any file. If you don't click on an app in the submenu, but on the Open with… entry instead, a panel opens:

  

  Here you'll again find the programs that were listed in the submenu. By selecting one and clicking the Open and make preferred button, you changed the preferred application for every file of that filetype, here text/plain.

• Get info

  This opens a panel that shows the meta data of a file and lets you edit its permissions. You can rename it by clicking on the file name at the top.

  

  The panel consists of three tabs:

  • Information: Shows standard data like size, date of creation/modification, file type and location. Click on the location path to open the file's parent folder. The Open with menu sets the preferred application to open this particular file.
  • Permissions: Lets you change 'owner', 'group' and 'other' file permissions.
  • Attibutes: Lists all extra file attributes with their value and type.

• Editează nume, Duplicare și Mută la gunoi - vă permite să redenumiți sau duplicați un fișier sau să plasați fișierul(ele) selectat(e) la gunoi.

• Move to, Copy to and Create link - lets you move, copy or link the selected file(s) using the submenu navigating method. Holding SHIFT while invoking the menu offers the option to create a relative link. You recognize links by their dot-underlined icon label.

• Cut, Copy and Paste - lets you cut, copy and paste files using the clipboard. By holding SHIFT while invoking the menu you can Copy/Cut more files, maybe from another folder that you can paste somewhere else later. Also, while holding SHIFT you can paste the copied files in the clipboard as links.

• Identify - will sniff out and set the type of files if they didn't have one before, e.g. if you transferred a file with wget which doesn't set a filetype itself. Holding SHIFT while invoking the menu changes the item to Force identify which identifies the filetype and corrects it if it was false before.

• Add-Ons - offers you every generic Tracker add-on and those that can handle the selected file(s). See topic Tracker Add-ons for more information.

Stare tranzacție

Când copiați, mutați sau ștergeți fișiere, Tracker arată progresul cu o fereastră de stare. Dacă începeți mai mult de o tranzacție, fiecare dintre acestea obține propria afișare de stare.

La dreapta sunt două butoane pentru a pauza sau stopa o tranzacție complet. Câteodată poate fi util să pauzați temporar o tranzacție mai mare. De exemplu, poate aveți nevoie să deschideți rapid o aplicație mai mare. Copierea de cantități mari de date ocupă mult din lungimea de bandă IO al hard discului și prin urmare întârzie modul de lucru.