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Topic       : User Manual for TeraDesk
Author      : Wout Klaren, Henk Robbers, Djordje Vukovic
Version     : February 2017
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         Menu title: Options

4.5.3  Set desk icons...                                      TeraDesk

You can use this menu option to install, change or remove icons on the
desktop.  When  you  first  select  it,  a  mini-icon  appears  on the
desktop;  you  can move this about the screen with your mouse till you
click the left mouse button;  by then  you will have placed it  at the
position where you wish the new icon to be displayed.

When you click  the mouse button to  position an icon  on the desktop,
The icon selector dialog box appears. If you selected this menu option
while one or  more desktop  icons  is/are selected  then the mini icon
will not be shown, and The icon selector dialog will open immediately.

In the dialog  you can  define  the type of icon  and  its appearance.
There are four icon types, each of which has a special use:

1. Disk         Items dragged to this icon will be copied to the disk.

2. Printer      Files dragged to this icon will be printed.

3. Trashcan     Files or folders dragged to this icon will be deleted.

4. File/Folder  Icon represents a directory item (file/folder/link).

There are many different designs of icon available. TeraDesk reads its
monochrome icons  from the file named  ICONS.RSC  and colour ones from
the file named CICONS.RSC. See The icons files.

You can scroll  through these different designs  to select the one you
prefer.  You can also  enter  an identifying  letter (for drive icons)
and a title (label) for the icon.

Icons representing folders, files and symbolic links can be  placed on
the  desktop  simply by dragging  them  from their directory onto  the
desktop.  An alternative method  is  to select one or more items  in a
directory  window  and  then  select  Set desk icons...  In this  case
The icon selector dialog  will open, enabling you  to change the icons
assigned by default to selected items.

Desktop icons of network objects  such as  web pages and ftp sites can
be created. An icon of the type  'File/Folder'  should be created  and
then  its path entered  so  as to point to a  network object such as a
web page.  Referenced objects  should  have names  beginning  with one
of the  following prefixes:  http:,  https:,  ftp:  or  mailto:  (case
insensitive).

When a symbolic link is  selected  (see  Symbolic Links),  the desktop
icon to be created can represent either the link itself, or the object
it is referencing, depending on the state of the 'Follow links' option
in the dialog (available only in MiNT or MagiC).

The default form of a  desktop icon is decided  by Tera Desktop  which
determines it  according  to the item's nature. If a  window icon  has
already been assigned  to the  item  being set on  the desktop,  it is
preserved. Subsequent changing  of window  icon  assignments  will not
affect icons already placed  on the  desktop.  Subsequent  changing of
desktop icon  assignments  will  not  affect window  icon  assignments
either.

When a desktop icon represents  a directory item,  the dialog displays
an editable text field (see  Scrolled text fields) into which the path
to the item corresponding to the icon can be entered.

When a  disk-type icon  is placed  on the desktop  without  specifying
its label,  TeraDesk tries to read  the volume label for the specified
partition, and, if it succeeds, sets this text as the icon label.

When a  disk-type icon  is placed  on the desktop  without  specifying
a drive letter, icons for all existing disk drives  for which no icons
have yet  been  assigned  will  be  placed  on the  desktop  at  once,
starting from the specified position (this feature is active only when
adding new icons, not when editing existing ones).

Besides  selecting  'Remove' in The icon selector dialog, an alternate
method of removing desktop icons is to drag them to the trash can.  An
alert will  be displayed,  asking  whether  to remove the icons or  to
delete the selected items.  If 'Remove' is chosen, the selected  icons
will be removed. If 'Delete' is chosen, actual directory items will be
deleted.

See also: The icon selector dialog  Set window icons...  Show as icons