[Xfce4-commits] <xfce4-docs:ristretto-master> Describe preferences-dialog

Stephan Arts noreply at xfce.org
Thu Nov 3 12:04:01 CET 2011


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commit 960f5a1713646455b45ebeada4fd6fd33cdc8a73
Author: Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org>
Date:   Thu Nov 3 12:02:10 2011 +0100

    Describe preferences-dialog

 manual/getting-started.page |    2 +-
 manual/preferences.page     |  144 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 2 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/manual/getting-started.page b/manual/getting-started.page
index 455df6e..35ca184 100644
--- a/manual/getting-started.page
+++ b/manual/getting-started.page
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
     <info>
         <link type="guide" xref="index#introduction"/>
-        <link type="seealso" xref="Preferences"/>
+        <link type="seealso" xref="preferences"/>
         <desc>Getting started with <app>Ristretto Image Viewer</app></desc>
         <credit type="author">
         <name>Stephan Arts</name>
diff --git a/manual/preferences.page b/manual/preferences.page
index 2d68a9f..ed9afdd 100644
--- a/manual/preferences.page
+++ b/manual/preferences.page
@@ -16,55 +16,147 @@
     </info>
 
     <title>Preferences</title>
+    <p>
+    The behaviour and looks of <app>Ristretto</app> can be modified,
+    mostly through options displayed in the <gui>Preferences Dialog</gui>.
+    </p>
     <section id="preferences-dialog">
         <title>Preferences Dialog</title>
         <p>
+        The Preferences dialog allows a user to configure different
+        aspects of <app>Ristretto</app>. These options are grouped
+        under the following tabs.
         </p>
         <section id="display-preferences">
-        <title>Display preferences</title>
-        <p>
-        </p>
-        <figure>
             <title>Display preferences</title>
-            <media type="image" src="media/preferences-display.png" mime="image/png" style="right"/>
-        </figure>
+            <p>
+            </p>
+            <figure>
+                <title>Display preferences</title>
+                <media type="image" src="media/preferences-display.png" mime="image/png" style="right"/>
+            </figure>
+            <section>
+                <title>Override background color</title>
+                <p>
+                Did you notice how the background-color around the image was
+                the same as the rest of the window? It was themed by Gtk+,
+                when you enable this option, the theme-color is overridden by
+                whatever you set here. 
+                Most people like it black, but there is no limitation to the
+                colors you can pick.
+                </p>
+            </section>
+            <section>
+                <title>Merge toolbars</title>
+                <p>
+                By default, <app>Ristretto</app> comes with two toolbars,
+                one containing the file-operations, and one for navigating
+                the opened images. If you want to reduce the amount of
+                space used for the different buttons, you can enable this
+                option and the two toolbars merge into one.
+                </p>
+            </section>
+            <section>
+                <title>Hide Thumbnailbar when fullscreen</title>
+                <p>
+                If the <app>Ristretto</app> window is fullscreen, you can
+                choose to automatically hide the thumbnailbar. Even though
+                the thumbnailbar is normally visible. This option overrides
+                the <keyseq><key>Control</key><key>t</key></keyseq>
+                shortcut for toggleing the visibility of the thumbnailbar.
+                </p>
+            </section>
         </section>
         <section id="slideshow-preferences">
-        <title>Slideshow preferences</title>
-        <p>
-        </p>
-        <figure>
             <title>Slideshow preferences</title>
-            <media type="image" src="media/preferences-slideshow.png" mime="image/png" style="right"/>
-        </figure>
+            <p>
+            </p>
+            <figure>
+                <title>Slideshow preferences</title>
+                <media type="image" src="media/preferences-slideshow.png" mime="image/png" style="right"/>
+            </figure>
+            <section>
+                <title>Timeout</title>
+                <p>
+                When showing a slideshow of images, the value of this
+                slider determines how long <app>Ristretto</app> will show each image.
+                </p>
+            </section>
         </section>
         <section id="control-preferences">
-        <title>Control preferences</title>
-        <p>
-        </p>
-        <figure>
             <title>Control preferences</title>
-            <media type="image" src="media/preferences-control.png" mime="image/png" style="right"/>
-        </figure>
+            <p>
+            </p>
+            <figure>
+                <title>Control preferences</title>
+                <media type="image" src="media/preferences-control.png" mime="image/png" style="right"/>
+            </figure>
+            <section>
+                <title>Revert zoom direction</title>
+                <p>
+                By default, <app>Ristretto</app> zooms <em>in</em> when
+                you turn the scroll-wheel forward, and zooms <em>out</em> when you turn
+                the scroll-wheel backward. For touch-pads, this can be awkward, because
+                a two-finger scroll is more of a pushing and pulling action.
+                With this option set, turning the scroll-wheel forward
+                will zoom <em>out</em> (pushing the image away) and turning the
+                scroll-wheel backward will zoom <em>in</em> (pulling the image closer).
+                </p>
+            </section>
         </section>
         <section id="behaviour-preferences">
-        <title>Behaviour preferences</title>
-        <p>
-        </p>
-        <figure>
             <title>Behaviour preferences</title>
-            <media type="image" src="media/preferences-behaviour.png" mime="image/png" style="right"/>
-        </figure>
+            <p>
+            </p>
+            <figure>
+                <title>Behaviour preferences</title>
+                <media type="image" src="media/preferences-behaviour.png" mime="image/png" style="right"/>
+            </figure>
+            <section>
+                <title>Maximize window on startup when opening an image</title>
+                <p>
+                This option will automatically maximize the main window whenever
+                <app>Ristretto</app> is launched with a file argument.
+                </p>
+            </section>
+            <section>
+                <title>Wrap around images</title>
+                <p>
+                With this option set, <app>Ristretto</app> will wrap
+                around images. When pressing <gui>Next</gui> on the last image, or
+                <gui>Previous</gui> on the first image, it will jump to
+                the <em>Last</em> or <em>First</em> image respectively.
+                </p>
+            </section>
         </section>
     </section>
-    <section id="advanced-preferences">
-        <title>Advanced options</title>
+    <section id="advanced-preferences"> <title>Advanced options</title>
         <p>
         </p>
         <section id="thunar-properties-dialog">
             <title>Don't use Thunar to show the file-properties dialog</title>
             <p>
+            By default, <app>Ristretto</app> will ask thunar to pop-up
+            the file-properties dialog. This way, you'll have the
+            advantage of all of thunar's plugins that extend it's file-properties
+            dialog beyond it's native functionality. Aswell as a consistent
+            look-and-feel throughout the xfce desktop.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+            However, there are some cases where you want <app>Ristretto</app> not
+            to use Thunar, but go for the build-in dialog all the times.
+            This can be the case when you have Thunar installed, but don't use it.
+            Launching the file-properties dialog from <app>Ristretto</app> will then
+            cause Thunar to be launched, making it a pretty expensive
+            dialog.
+            </p>
+            <p>
+            Being a somewhat advanced feature, this option is not
+            exposed through the preferences-dialog, and can only be enabled through
+            the <app>xfconf command-line utility</app> <cmd>xfconf-query</cmd>.
+            This can be done as followed:
             </p>
+            <screen><output style="prompt">$ </output><input>xfconf-query -c ristretto -p /window/use-thunar-properties -n -t bool -s false</input></screen>
         </section>
     </section>
 </page>


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