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1. To prove that it is an empty file select Contents from the Inspectors list Clicking Edit in the Inspector opens TextEdit with our file So add the following line to the file The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Save the document and see the Content view in the Inspector change 3 3 2 Setting Annotations File annotations are keywords you can give to a file to make it easier to find it back later FIXME 22 CHAPTER 3 MANAGING FILES AND FOLDERS 3 4 Moving Copying and Linking files When you select a file from the Icon Path and start to move it around you will notice that the pointer changes It is changed to the NoAccess pointer Which means that if you release your mouse button nothing happens Every area where you release the file while the systems says you can not drop a file means the system will not do anything and everything will stay as it was If however the pointer changes into a green arrow it means you can per form an operation which will change your system The green arrow means that the file is moved from its current position to the position the pointer is pointing to Before releasing your mouse button you can press the ALTERNATE key and you again see a change in pointer If you release the mouse button now the file will be copied So an identical file will be created in the folder you are pointing to and the original will stay where it was And the last option you have is to not press the ALTERNATE key b2. In the Browser mode the main Shelf is the one in your File Viewer window Since the space on that one is limited there are two other Shelfs available to you The TabbedShelf and the Fiend 5 3 1 The Fiend The Fiend is another way of storing applications files or folders From the Tools Fiend menu you can select the Show Fiend command This gives you the Fiend which is probably empty on your system and the Fiend menu Hide Fiend No Fiend on the Desktop Remove Current Layer Add a new storage place With the green arrows you can switch from one shelf to another and by dragging and dropping you can add icons to a certain shelf like I did for the development tools By giving each layer another name you can create distinguishable shelfs e g related to the type of application or by project type 5 3 2 The Tabbed Shelf The Tabbed Shelf is comparable with the Shelf One can stick applications documents and folders for future use on the Tabbed Shelf To activate the 5 3 MAKING LIFE EASIER WITH SHELFS 37 Shelf select from the Tools menu the Tabbed Shelf entry This will activate the Shelf at the bottom of your screen Double clicking an folder object in the Tabbed Shelf opens a new viewer with the folder If you click the object with the CONTROL key pressed the selection is opened in the current viewer 38 CHAPTER 5 MANAGING APPLICATIONS Appendix A Daemons and Tools Daemons
3. system the entire interface is new to you It looks different because the system is different GWorkspace is an GNUstep based application that handles the Workspace The Workspace is the desktop a file manager and a place that holds the icons of the running applications This guide will help you to manage the Workspace Tt will explain all the elements that you might encounter and even the more hidden features of GWorkspace Since you can run GWorkspace on more systems then I can afford things might not be exactly the same on your system Things that might be different for you are e g the layout of the filesystem as is represented in this guide This document is written using a GNU Linux system with a default GNUstep installation Meaning that GNUstep itself is located in usr GNUstep This version of the guide is based in the GWorkspace 0 8 x releases this means that with future versions and previous versions there might be differ ences Other omissions errors and mistakes are my faults Please let me know at dleeuw made it com Keyboard controls GNUstep uses a special keyboard scheme to control the graphical environ ment For historic reasons the OpenStep standard there are three different keyboard modifiers CONTROL COMMAND and ALTERNATE If you are using a default GNUstep installation the mapping between the actual keyboard and the functions is as follows The COMMAND key is used to access commands from the menu The CONT
4. the Edit button opens the folder editor where you can modify the search criteria used by the folder the popup let you choose the auto update cycle time and the Update now button updates the results Adjust the How often the search search criteria needsto be updated LiveSearch Isf pq re dk no autolp sta Jpdate non Name Parent Date Modifi Size Type Chapter 5 Managing Applications As we have seen before TextEdit was started when we double clicked a txt file This is by far the easiest way to start an application and get working where you left of An alternative for this is to highlight the document and use Open with to open it with an application of your choice Open with Type the name or the path of the application to use to open the current selection T Cancel ok lt However there are cases where you want to start an application to create a file or there is no file to work with just some functionality that you want to use like a chat program The GNUstep filesystem has three logical places where applications are stored First of all there is the System Applications folder where the ap plications are stored that belong to the initial installation In this folder you will find GWorkspace the Workspace is also an application The second place is the Local Applications folder wher applications can be stored by your local system administrator And the last place is GNUstep Applications where you can
5. contains the Recycler for deleting files To get a quick overview see figure 1 1 Command menu Window Icons File Viewer Desktop Dock Mouse Pointer Figure 1 1 The Workspace 2 CHAPTER 1 THE WORKSPACE 1 1 Pointers Pointers follow the movements of your mouse If you move your mouse to the left the pointer will move to the left The standard pointer is the Arrow pointer If you perform special operations with your mouse the pointer changes Table 1 1 gives you an overview of the different pointers k E A Arrow pointer No access pointer Copy pointer Link pointer Table 1 1 GNUstep pointers 1 2 ICONS 3 1 2 Icons Icons give a graphical representation of what can be found on your system It shows you objects that you can access or view There are a couple of default icons available ga 9 Folder Tool Unknown Application Unknown FileType Table 1 2 GNUstep icons The idea behind a graphical interface is that everything on your system is represented by an icon The left most icon in table 1 2 represents a folder Folders are place holders for other objects like files and applications And the second one is the Tool icon Tools are commandline programs they can not be run in a graphical environment and thus have a generic icon to represent them Every application that is supported by the GNUstep system has an icon that represents that application In very rare cases you could come across the Unkno
6. lsfupdater fswatcher ddbd The GWorkspace database GNUSTEP USER ROOT Library ddbd 39 40 APPENDIX A DAEMONS AND TOOLS Appendix B Build from source GWorkspace is downloadable from http www gnustep it enrico gworkspace gworkspace 0 8 2 tar gz To check out GWorkspace from SVN use svn http To build GWorkspace use configure make GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DIR GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT install cd Apps_wrappers cp a GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Applications 41 42 APPENDIX B BUILD FROM SOURCE Appendix C Testing debugging and removal If GWorkspace crashes it normally leaves core dumps however some distri butions have a ulimit c 0 set This is done to prevent diskspace loss for the normal user but you might want to override it if you run into trouble with GWorkspace Deleting the defaults defaults delete GWorkspace defaults delete ddbd I assume that GWorkspace was installed using the GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT variable rm rm rm rm rm rm rm rm rm rm rm rm rf GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Applications GWorkspace GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Library Libraries libDBKit GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Library Libraries libFSNode GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Library Libraries libInspector rf GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Library Headers FSNode rf GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Library Headers Inspector rf GNUSTEP SYSTEM ROOTJ Library Frameworks FSNode framework rf GNUSTEP SYSTEM ROOTJ Library Frameworks Inspecto
7. store applications you want Using the FileViewer you can browse to these places and by double click ing the application icon the application will be started It is as simple as that And of course there is more and that is what the rest of this chapter is about 33 34 CHAPTER 5 MANAGING APPLICATIONS 5 1 Docking Applications The Dock is a place to store applications that you want to have ready at hand From the Icon Path you can drag applications to the Dock The indicates thatan application a is not started Applications you start will also be visible in the Dock Started applica tions will not have the marker while the not started applications have the marker To make an application the active one you can double click its icon on the Dock Hidden applications are shown in the Dock with a single in their icon By double clicking this icon the application gets unhidden and becomes the active one 5 2 USING RUN 39 5 2 Using run With the Run command from the File menu you can start applications if you know the name Just type the name in the panel and click Ok 36 CHAPTER 5 MANAGING APPLICATIONS 5 3 Making life easier with Shelfs All kinds of objects can be stored on the Shelf applications folders or files Beter explained is to say the links can be created on a Shelf The actual object stays where it is but a symbolic link is created so you can find it easier
8. 4 1 1 Search by name The Name search option gives you the ability to search a file or folder by its name To search on the exact match select is If you only know a part of the name then contains might be better for you To further refine your search you can use the ones that contains not or that start with If you know the extension of the file you could e g filter out all txt files by using the ends with option The text field in which you can type text is case sensitive So there isa distinction between uppercase and lowercase 4 1 2 Search by type 30 CHAPTER 4 SEARCHING FILES AND FOLDERS The file type search can be searched for in a match or does not match variant is or is not Currently the Finder functionality can be used to find folders tools ap plications symbolic links and of course normal files like documents 4 1 3 Search by contents Using the contents search option one can search through the contents of documents for matches Note that this might be a heavy task for your computer since this will inspect the contents of the files and it needs to open and read them The text you enter is case sensitive so only exact uppercase and lowercase matches are performed 4 1 4 Search by Annotation contains one of contains all of with exactly without one of Through the Annotations Inspector one can add keywords to a file And with the Annotatio
9. GWorkspace User Guide D Leeuw March 29 2006 2005 2006 Dennis Leeuw Permission to use copy modify and distribute this Guide and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted in perpetuity provided that the above copyright notice and these paragraphs appear in all copies The copyright holders make no representation about the suit ability of this Guide for any purpose It is provided AS IS without expressed or implied warranty Contents Preface Introduction 1 The Workspace id Pointers N EEE Eures 12 EONS te dr nat aa N ne dl Wades TS VSCOM S he derati ae ay rol ce Se hee oe A es ae dio E aa dio LASS 1 4 The Command Menu ar t mad go ed ae ara 1 5 The File Viewer ra a eee et Be EB Ne Dick 2 Eras Ss ee a Bee a Viewing the Filesystem 2 1 Your home Polder 2 u 242 2 23 38 433 Ar oe Te 22 A Filesystem ast ee ne er ne Je as 2 3 Different ways to view the filesystem ZA Spatial Browse cfc wid ae EEE Managing Files and Folders hr rea tie Folder ta he nee A gaa ok WB Ot te A a 3 1 1 Setting the permissions 3 2 Opening anew Viewer 0 0 0 a 3 3 Files and the Inspector 2 4 2 5 s Das der Dai 28 De 3 3 1 Viewing the content 2 sa ass kala 5 ded gt 3 3 2 Setting Annotations 40s EGOR eet eed GEE ee 3 4 Moving Copying and Linking filles Och NIOVENIeS m a enpas eds eee Se eee eee ee ale BA Copy il
10. ROL and ALTERNATE keys are used to give keys a different meaning in a certain context ill INTRODUCTION Function Keyboard key COMMAND _ Alt left CONTROL Ctrl left and Ctrl right ALTERNATE Alt right Table 1 Keyboard mapping Since keymappings can be changed within this document the full function names are used to descibe which keys need to be used The first time Before we start to work with GWorkspace we will enable the Desktop To do this start GWorkspace if it is not already started Click on the Tools menu entry as shown in figure 1 GWorkspace Tools Inspectors r Edi i t i r Click on Show Desktop View i Run Tools Windows Services Hide Others Show All Figure 1 Enable the Desktop Chapter 1 The Workspace The Workspace is the main part within a GNUstep based system to help you get your work done on a computer It is in this Workspace where all your interaction with the computer begins and ends The most important features of the Workspace is the maintenance of files folders and applications You can rename delete and copy files and folders With the Workspace you can also access harddisks floppies CDs and DVDs or USB sticks This might all seem complex at first but the Workspace only consists of a few basic parts The FileViewer for browsing and manipulating files a menu containing commands and an application Dock for easy access to applications The Dock also
11. Sounds and then subdivide it per artist and then per album If you organize your work this way it is very easy to find your data The folder tree of GNUstep is setup in a similar fashion like you can see in figure 2 2 2 3 DIFFERENT WAYS TO VIEW THE FILESYSTEM 11 GNUstep Applications Fonts Colors Services lati he J Documentation Sounds Images Makefiles Libraries Frameworks Figure 2 2 GNUstep tree 2 3 Different ways to view the filesystem GWorkspace gives you a great deal of flexibility of how you want to view the filesystem If you are quickly browsing through a large tree of folders the browser might be fine for you But if you are trying to locate an application it would be easier if you can look at the icons instead of only the names The different ways to view the filesystem can be selected through the menu like shown in figure 2 3 The Browser view and the Icon view you have already seen and now you know how to access them New is the List view If you encounter that the commands in the View menu are grey instead of black it means you have not selected a viewer Move your mouse to the viewer and click on it so its title bar gets black and the commands in the menu are accessable With the arrow keys you can walk through the objects of a view Some times this is easier then using the mouse to select elements Another keyboard replacement for the mouse is the ENTER Pressing ENTER while an object is selected is
12. ennis and is the only one who can access the file People belonging to the group dennis can read the contents of the folder but not write to it While the owner can read and write to the folder 3 2 OPENING A NEW VIEWER 19 3 2 Opening a new Viewer Hold down the CONTROL key and double click on the Documents folder to open a new viewer with your Documents folder as the root Documents home dennis Now you have two viewers one with the entire filesystem and one starting from the folder you double clicked 20 CHAPTER 3 MANAGING FILES AND FOLDERS 3 3 Files and the Inspector Go back to the File menu command and select New File Rename it with the same procedure as above use Test txt as its name In the GWorkspace menu select Tools and go to the Inspectors Select Attributes A panel will popup with the file attributes Check that the rights on the file are the way you want them m Attributes Inspector Documents home denr Figure 3 4 Inspecting a new file 3 3 FILES AND THE INSPECTOR 21 Tools Inspector rs al Figure 3 5 The Tools section from the inspector 3 3 1 Viewing the content The only available application on my system to open this kind of file is TextEdit so it is the only available choice Because we are the one that created the file through GWorkspace it is completely empty The only way the computer guesses the type of application is because we gave it a txt extension text file
13. equal to double clicking the same object Within the Icon view mode or the List view mode you can use the PGUP to scroll an entire screen up or PGDN to scroll an entire page down And the last way to walk fast through a list is by selecting the first letter It moves you immediately to the first matching item If you want to jump to the objects that start with a k type the letter k on your keyboard Note that this is a case sensitive action The k and K are two different places 12 CHAPTER 2 VIEWING THE FILESYSTEM GWorkspace View Info r Browser b File E Edit F View F Tools E windows E Services E Hide h Hide Others H Show All Print p Quit Q Logout Figure 2 3 Views menu selection If you hold down the SHIFT key while selecting objects the selection gets expanded with the new objects This way you can select multiple objects before performing a certain operation Of course in the Icon view mode this can also be performed with the mouse Hold down the left mouse button and select an area All objects within the area will light up In the Icon view you can also change the size of the Icon Size Icon Position and Label Size Using the Icon Size submenu you can change the size of the icons from 48x48 pixels to e g 24x24 size Instead of having the name of the file below the icon you could use the Icon Position to have the title to the left of the icon And the last option you can change is the size of the file
14. es aa a bk Se ld 0 AAA E Me Bde Link CSS tea esos Sait nia ig Sect ncn Se Sallas ES Ar User actio a a Men Reh A o Anti ge 3 5 Deleting files and folders 2 405 422 Aa a da 3 5 1 The Recycler Searching Files and Folders 4 1 Define a search a oma kyo a 5 Ea 4 1 1 Search by name so au sa 4 1 2 Search by type e grana Ef es A 4 1 3 Search by contents 4 1 4 Search by Annotation 4 1 8 Search by size eend Bete 4 3 4 1 6 Search by Omer a6 ana ae 4 1 7 Search by date ss us salme 5 4 2 Live Search Folders Managing Applications 5 1 Docking Applications ga ue pa es 52 Leine E a ad ae a a E 5 3 Making life easier with Shelfs 5 3 1 The Fiend 002 5 3 2 The Tabbed Shelf Daemons and Tools Build from source C Testing debugging and removal CONTENTS Preface The typesetting of this book follows the following conventions ENTER are keys found directly on your keyboard or one of the keyboard modifiers as described in the introduction GWorkspace is used for application names filename is used for filenames folders and Tools Info is used for menu items Everything displayed like this can be found in the applications menu PREFACE Introduction The first time you come in contact with a GNUstep based system it might surprise you It is very different from any other system you might know Except for those that have once worked with a NeXT
15. ge the linked file or folder you are actually changing the original Removing the link does not alter the original Removing the original however creates a dead link The link will persist but there is no destination it is pointing to anymore 3 4 4 User action Create a copy of the Text txt file in the Backup folder and a link to the Test txt file in the Test folder 24 CHAPTER 3 MANAGING FILES AND FOLDERS 3 5 Deleting files and folders The easiest and quickest way to delete a file or folder is to select it in the File Viewer window and to press COMMAND r one single popup asks for a confirmation and pressing ENTER is all that is needed to definitively remove the file The same thing can be accomplished through the File menu and selecting Destroy Delete the selected objects Cancel o Figure 3 7 Destroy panel The downside of this way of working is the definitive nature Files deleted this way can not be retrieved they are gone for good A more subtle way of doing things is through the use of the Recycler This gives you the benefit of undoing the delete action 3 5 1 The Recycler The Recycler is part of the Dock The bottom icon on the Dock is always the Recycler The icon can change based on the state of the Recycler It can indicate that there are no files in the Recycler it is empty or that there are files in it JD gt 4 Gy Empty Full Table 3 2 The Recycler Move to the Recycler There are var
16. ious ways to place a file in the Recycler The first one is to drag the file towards the Recycler icon on the Dock and as soon as the pointer turns green release the mouse button 3 5 DELETING FILES AND FOLDERS 25 Figure 3 8 Dragging a file to the Recycler Another way is to select the file and press COMMAND d or the BACKSPACE key on your keyboard And the last version is by using the File menu entry Move to Recycler If the option on the menu is greyed out you forgot to select the file Before the action is performed a panel will popup to ask for your confir mation When you started with an empty Recycler icon you will after using one of the above options on e g the Test_copy txt file see the icon of the Recycler change Remove from the Recycler Double clicking on the Recycler icon in the Dock opens a viewer on the Trash folder see figure 3 9 Path to the actual Trash folder on your system m Trash home dennis GNUstep Library Desktop FI The file you have thrown away Figure 3 9 Recycler contents Dragging the file back to a folder on the system removes it from the 26 CHAPTER 3 MANAGING FILES AND FOLDERS recycler Empty Recycler The downside of the Recycler is that it is a temporary store for files or folders that need to be thrown away By placing items in the Recycler they are still part of the filesystem and thus take up space So placing files in the Recycler does not create more di
17. n be moved with the mouse Put your mouse pointer on the Title bar of the menu click and keep the mouse button pressed Now you can move the menu around Releasing the mouse button will release the menu If you click the Info command a submenu appears like shown in figure 1 5 The name of the submenu window gets the name of the menu entry you choose If you now try to move the Info menu you will notice that the main menu stays where it is but the Info menu will get detached It becomes a standalone menu which you can moved around as shown in figure 1 6 6 CHAPTER 1 THE WORKSPACE GWorkspace info Info Panel Ear F Figure 1 5 The Info Menu Info xI Preferences Help Figure 1 6 A detached menu Another thing you will notice is that it gets a close button in the upper right corner Clicking this button closes the menu Menus are windows that belong to the main menu but can be moved independantly The Title bar of the menu indicates the name of the command you have choosen Not the entire path but just the name of the command from the previous menu entry Another thing that you might have noticed is the fact that the entry you selected like Info stayed highlighted when the menu was still attached to the main menu This is to indicate how you got to a certain submenu But as soon as you detached the menu the path highlighting stops at the last entry shown 1 5 THE FILE VIEWER T 1 5 The File Viewe
18. n that corresponds with the File Viewer and the bottom icon is the Recycler AIl others might not be available on your system The Dock is explained in more detail in 5 1 The File Viewer Figure 1 8 The Dock Chapter 2 Viewing the Filesystem 2 1 Your home Folder In the upper left corner of the File Viewer window you find an icon with your username the name with which you logged into the system under it Clicking it will bring you to the folder that is called your home folder This is the place where you can store your documents and create additional folders The place where you end up depends on your system Most Unix like systems use home lt username gt as the home folder of a user To make it easy for you the entire home lt username gt can be abbreviated to the tilde character which saves a lot of typing 10 CHAPTER 2 VIEWING THE FILESYSTEM 2 2 A Filesystem A filesystem is organised as a hierarchical tree where the highest part is called the root If you look at the picture in figure 2 1 and turn it upside down you understand the tree analogy Local System Applications Figure 2 1 Filesystem tree Everything within the filesystem is placed in folders Folders can contain files applications and even other folders This way of organizing your data is very efficient Assume you have a folder in your home folder where you want to store your MP3 collection Just create one folder called
19. name Which is called the Label Size This can be lowered to a font size of 10 points or as great as 16 points 2 3 DIFFERENT WAYS TO VIEW THE FILESYSTEM Hold the CTRL key and double click a folder this opens a new viewer with the folders content Browser View List View Icon View Figure 2 4 The different views 14 CHAPTER 2 VIEWING THE FILESYSTEM 2 4 Spatial Browsing By selecting from the View the View Behaviour entry you can select the Spatial mode This mode is quite different from the browsing mode It does not have a Shelf and it does not have an Icon Path You only have the viewing area Selecting the Spatial browser mode puts you at the root of the filesystem Double clicking on a folder automatically opens a new viewer with the contents of that folder All options for viewing like Icon view List view and Browser view are still available select Spatial Root ofthe Browser mode filesystem Dimmed folders List Browser Icon View View View Figure 2 5 Spatial Views The dimmed objects in the different views are the path you have followed Your screen might get quite busy with all the open folders so there are some special tricks that might help you to keep an overview If you hold down the ALTERNATE while double clicking on a folder a new viewer will be opened with the contents of the folder but the old one will be closed Which of course can also be accomplished with ENTER and holding d
20. ns search option you can search on the added keywords There are several ways to search through the annotations 4 1 5 Search by size greaterthen This search feature is guite simple You can search on is greater then or on is is less then Combining the two using the button you can define an almost exact match on the size of a document 4 1 6 Search by owner Using the is or is not search options and filling in the username on which you want to search you can quickly filter out the documents created by a certain user 4 1 DEFINE A SEARCH 31 4 1 7 Search by date Figure 4 4 Search date options There are two ways a date is connected to a file The first one is the date on which the file is created and the other is the last modified date The Finder gives you the ability to search on both of these date created and date modified Both options have a uniform structure for searchig the dates The options in figure 4 4 are the ones you can choose from and after that you can with some options enter a date 32 CHAPTER 4 SEARCHING FILES AND FOLDERS 4 2 Live Search Folders By dragging the Live Search Folder from your Search results window to e g the Desktop you can store the search for future use A Live Search Folder is a Finder search saved in a file and capable of auto updating itself To reuse a search double click the Live Search Folder The LSF window that will open has two buttons and a popup
21. nts of the window The bottom of the window is made up of a bar that is refered to as the Resize bar Resize down Resize down Resize down and left and right Figure 1 3 Resize bar The middle part of the Resize bar can be used to make a window longer or shorter The width stays the same To also change the width of a window you can use the two smaller parts on the left or the right Clicking such a part of the Resize bar and holding down your mouse button while moving your mouse resizes the window in width and height 1 4 THE COMMAND MENU 5 1 4 The Command Menu A special kind of window is the command menu It does not have a close or minimize button but otherwise it acts exactly like the other windows The command menus hold the commands you can use to control the com puter The entries within this menu are commands you can access directly like Quit or Hide but they can also have a triangle next to it which means that those entries lead to a submenu like Info and Edit GWorkspace Submenus that lead to more commands Windows Services Hide Others Show All Figure 1 4 Command Menu Clicking on a command with a triangle next to it will open the submenu which is another window on its own holding even more commands Every application has its own list of commands that can be used The one presented in this section is the one from GWorkspace which can be seen by the Title bar of the menu Menus ca
22. own the ALTERNATE key Chapter 3 Managing Files and Folders One of the most important aspects of working with the Workspace is the handling of files and folders Maintaining an organized working environment makes your life much easier Planning where you archive certain data can help you tremendously when you need to find that certain document several years from now This chapter will not teach you how to organize you files that is more a matter of personal taste but it will teach you how to create files and folders delete and move them and how to maintain some basic security measures 15 16 CHAPTER 3 MANAGING FILES AND FOLDERS 3 1 Creating Folders To create a new folder go to the GWorkspace menu and click on File like shown in figure 3 1 This will open a submenu Click New Folder The new folder will appear in the FileViewer icon path Double click on the NewFolder name and type the name you want the folder to have For now we call it Documents GWorkspace File Tools N u i r new folder A i F e F Figure 3 1 File menu With COMMAND n you can create new folders without using the menu which is much faster when you have to create more then one folder Create two more folders called Test and Backup within this newly created folder 3 1 1 Setting the permissions We do not want everybody to have access to our files So lets make sure that we are the only one who has access right
23. r The most important feature of the Workspace is access to the filesystem An example of this feature is presented in figure 1 7 A computer organises everything that is stored on the harddisk into log ical elements The basic organisation is files and folders where a folder is an element that can contain files Another name for a folder that you might know or see is directory Files are all other objects like documents spreadsheets images etc File Viewer Shortcut to your home folder The Icon Path Applications Applications P Figure 1 7 The File Viewer The Shelf is a place holder for shortcuts Initially the only shortcut present is the one to your home folder If you click the icon you are imme diately transfered to the place where you store your files and folders By dragging files folders or applications to the Shelf you can create your own shortcuts The Icon Path represents the path from the root of the filesystem towards the point where you are now It always ends at an highlighted folder or file It is this highlighted element on which you can perform operations like dragging and dropping And the last section is the viewing area Here the contents of the filesys tem is displayed It presents to you in a graphical way the surroundings of the highlighted item 8 CHAPTER 1 THE WORKSPACE 1 6 The Dock The Dock is a place to store often used applications The top of the Dock contains the ico
24. r framework rf GNUSTEP SYSTEM ROOT J Library Bundles inspector rf GNUSTEP SYSTEM ROOTJ Library Bundles finder rf GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Library Bundles extinfo rf GNUSTEP SYSTEM ROOTJ Library Bundles x thumb 43 44 APPENDIX C TESTING DEBUGGING AND REMOVAL rm GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Tools ddbd rm GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Tools fswatcher rm GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Tools indexer rm GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Tools lsfupdater rm GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Tools resizer rm GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT Tools searchtool rm rf GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT Library Bundles inspector rm rf GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT Library GWorkspace rm rf GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT Library ddbd Index Applications Unknown Application Icon 3 Browser view 11 Command Menu 5 Desktop Show desktop iv Destroy 24 Dock 8 34 File delete 24 extension 21 permissions 16 File permissions 16 File rights 16 File Viewer Viewing Area 7 Files 22 copy 22 Create 20 link 22 move 22 Rename 20 rights 20 type 21 undelete 25 Unknown FileType Icon 3 Files searching 27 Filesystem 10 FileViewer 7 Folder Rename 16 45 Folders 3 10 Create 16 delete 24 searching 27 undelete 25 GNUstep tree 10 Group s 18 Home 9 Icon Path 7 Icon view 11 Icons 3 Default Icons 3 Folder 3 Tool 3 Unknown Application 3 Unknown FileType 3 Inspector Attributes 16 Inspectors 20 Attributes 20 Contents 21 List vie
25. s to this folder Make sure the Documents folder we just created is the one highlighted in the Icon Path Then select the Attributes from the Inspectors menu as shown in figure 3 2 A panel will pop up figure 3 3 that shows you more information about the folder you created On Unix like systems the rights someone has are devided into the owner of the file a group of users and everybody else others The owner does not have to belong to the group but most of the times does 3 1 CREATING FOLDERS 17 GWorkspace Tools Inspectors RS Fa FR Select do Attributes Tools F Figure 3 2 Selecting the Inspector menu m Attributes Inspector XI Attributes di Calculate the size of the folder Date and time when the folder was last Who have acces changed to this folder Make sure we know who has access and z click the to become 4 ts Xin the Others section Da VA A x 672 A se 2 7 Figure 3 3 Inspector panel 18 CHAPTER 3 MANAGING FILES AND FOLDERS For each of these you can set read write and execute permissions The execute permission gives someone the right to start e g an application But also folders have execute permissions To have access to a folder one needs the execute permission and the read permission to view the content of the folder With read write and execute one is allowed to create files or other folders in a folder In 3 3 the user dennis belongs to the group d
26. sk space on your system To free the diskspace occupied by the items in the Recycler you must empty the Recycler Select from the File menu the command Empty Re cycler and the files will be removed from your system Chapter 4 Searching Files and Folders When you select the Documents folder and type COMMAND f the Finder is started The Finder is also available from the Tools section in the menu These options are only available with the Specific places selected Adda place Remove a place to search in to search in List of place to search in More search options Remove search options Search also the subfolders Figure 4 1 Finder window 2T 28 CHAPTER 4 SEARCHING FILES AND FOLDERS If you search on Name contains est and click Search you get Stop Restart search search Search Results Create a Parent Date Modified Size Type E E Be Test tt Documents Dec 19 2005 44 bytes plain file Found results Path to found item Figure 4 2 Search results Using the plus and minus signs to add or remove more search options This way you can create very complex constructions for very exact matches 4 1 DEFINE A SEARCH 29 4 1 Define a search You can search in a single folder or you could build a list of folders where you want to search Select the Specific places item and use the Add button to build a list of places to search in Finder Figure 4 3 Search area
27. ut use your left CONTROL key This will create a link if you release the mouse button A link means that the file stays at its original place and in the new position a file is created with an identical name which tells the system where the original is NoAccess Copy Link Table 3 1 File action pointers 3 4 1 Move files Moving files or folders means you put the file or folder in a different loca tion It will not be available in the old location anymore after the move An alternative for the drag and drop procedure is to use COMMAND x and COMMAND v or Cut and Paste from the Edit menu 3 4 2 Copy files Copying files or folders means you put a copy of the file or folder in a different location The file or folder still exists in the old location Changing one of the files does not affect the other one and they are no longer identical copies 3 4 MOVING COPYING AND LINKING FILES 23 you can even remove the original witout affecting the copy To make a copy of a file in the same folder press COMMAND u Test copy txt Figure 3 6 Copying a file Another way of copying a file is using the COMMAND c and COMMAND v key combinations or the Copy and Paste commands from the Edit menu 3 4 3 Link files Linking a file or folder means that you create a new file or folder in another location that is linked to the original Changing the contents of the original or the link keeps both files identical To be precise when you chan
28. w 11 Owner 18 Pointers 2 22 copy 22 link 22 move 22 Recycler 24 delete 24 46 empty 26 undelete 25 root 10 Shelf 7 Spatial Browsing 14 Submenu 5 Tools 3 Unix permissions 16 username 9 View Icon 11 List 11 Viewer new 19 Views Browser 11 Windows 4 Close button 4 Minimize button 4 Resize bar 4 Title bar 4 INDEX
29. wn Application icon But in normal cases you should not Files are objects that can be handled by applications like text files or spreadsheets If the system does not know how to handle a certain file type does not know which application can handle the file the Unknown FileType icon is shown 4 CHAPTER 1 THE WORKSPACE 1 3 Windows A window is a part of the screen where you can view the results of your actions It can hold a document or a spreadsheet or in the case of the Workspace the contents of the filesystem It is in a window where you perform your actions A window consists of a Titel bar and a Resize bar with in between the contents of a window The Title bar displays the window name and a couple of control elements as shown in figure 1 2 File Viewer Minimize Title Close window bar window Figure 1 2 Title bar When the minimize button is clicked a mini windows is placed at the bottom of the screen Double clicking this mini window resizes it again to full size The button on the right closes the window but is also a status indicator As long as the cross is solid you can close the window or use COMMAND w to close it If however the cross changes to then something in de window has changed which you might want to safe first So if you edited a document but did not safe it the cross shows this by being broken Clicking the broken cross will pop up a panel asking you if you want to safe or discard the changed conte
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