[gnome-user-docs] g-h/nautilus-file-properties-basic: Edit, Help button target, final
- From: Shaun McCance <shaunm src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-user-docs] g-h/nautilus-file-properties-basic: Edit, Help button target, final
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:00:23 +0000 (UTC)
commit 69cef5dd2af34aacb96e33afe4afa86f9900b01e
Author: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
Date: Mon Apr 4 10:04:54 2011 -0400
g-h/nautilus-file-properties-basic: Edit, Help button target, final
gnome-help/C/nautilus-file-properties-basic.page | 125 ++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/gnome-help/C/nautilus-file-properties-basic.page b/gnome-help/C/nautilus-file-properties-basic.page
index 8e7496a..c9d559d 100644
--- a/gnome-help/C/nautilus-file-properties-basic.page
+++ b/gnome-help/C/nautilus-file-properties-basic.page
@@ -3,40 +3,67 @@
id="nautilus-file-properties-basic">
<info>
- <link type="guide" xref="files#manage-prefs"/>
-
- <desc>Left click on the file, select <gui>Properties</gui>, select <gui>Basic</gui> tab.</desc>
-
- <revision pkgversion="3.0" version="0.1" date="2011-03-29" status="review"/>
- <credit type="author">
- <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
- <email>tiffany antopolski com</email>
- </credit>
- <license>
- <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
- </license>
+ <link type="guide" xref="files" group="more"/>
+
+ <desc>View basic file information, set permissions, and choose
+ default applications.</desc>
+
+ <revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-04-04" status="final"/>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
+ <email>tiffany antopolski com</email>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Shaun McCance</name>
+ <email>shaunm gnome org</email>
+ </credit>
+ <license>
+ <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+ </license>
</info>
-<title>Basic file properties</title>
- <p>To view the file properties you can do one of the following:</p>
- <list>
- <item><p>Right click on the file, select <gui>Properties</gui>.</p></item>
- <item><p>Open the file and click on <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Properties</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
- <item><p>Select the file in the file manager by clicking on it once. Then press <guiseq><gui>Alt</gui><gui>Enter</gui></guiseq>.</p></item>
- </list>
- <p>Select the <gui>Basic</gui> tab.</p>
-
-<section id="properties">
- <title><gui>Basic</gui> tab</title>
+ <title>File properties</title>
+
+ <p>You can view information about a file in the file properties dialog.
+ To view the properties for a file or folder, right-click it and select
+ <gui>Properties</gui>. You can also select the file and press
+ <guiseq><gui>Alt</gui><gui>Enter</gui></guiseq>.</p>
+
+ <p>The file properties dialog shows you information like the file type,
+ size, and modification time. If you need this information often, you
+ can have it displayed in <link xref="nautilus-list">list view columns</link>
+ or <link xref="nautilus-display#icon-captions">icon captions</link>.</p>
+
+ <p>The file properties dialog also allow you to
+ <link xref="nautilus-file-properties-permissions">set file permissions</link>
+ and <link xref="files-open">choose applications to open files</link>.</p>
+
+ <p>For certain types of files, such as images and videos, there will be
+ an extra tab that provides information like the dimensions, duration,
+ and codec.</p>
+
+ <comment>
+ <cite date="2011-04-04">shaunm</cite>
+ <p>This page is intentionally written to give you some overview of
+ the other tabs, because I happen to know that in 3.0 it's the target
+ of the Help button in the properties dialog, regardless of the tab
+ you're on.</p>
+ </comment>
+
<terms>
+ <title>Basic properties</title>
<item>
- <title>Name</title>
- <p>The name of the file is in the textbox. You can <link xref="nautilus-file-properties-basic#rename">rename</link> your file or folder here.</p>
+ <title><gui>Name</gui></title>
+ <p>The name of the file. You can rename the file by changing this field.
+ You can also rename a file outside the properties window. See
+ <link xref="files-rename"/>.</p>
</item>
-
<item>
- <title>Type</title>
- <p>Here you will see the type of the item you are looking at. It may be a folder, a Gzip archive, a PDF document, a plain text document, an OpenDocument Text, a Python Script, or one of many other types.</p>
+ <title><gui>Type</gui></title>
+ <p>The type of the file, such as PDF document, OpenDocument Text, or JPEG
+ image. The MIME type of the file is shown in parentheses. The file type
+ determines which applications can open the file, among other things. See
+ <link xref="files-open"/> for more information.</p>
</item>
<item>
@@ -46,57 +73,47 @@
<item>
<title>Size</title>
- <p>This field is displayed if you are looking at an item other than a folder. The size may be stated as bytes, KB, MB or GB. In the case of the last three, the size in bytes will be stated in brackets.</p>
+ <p>This field is displayed if you are looking at an item other than a folder. The size may be stated as bytes, KB, MB, or GB. In the case of the last three, the size in bytes will be stated in parentheses.</p>
<note>
- <p>1 KB = 1 024 bytes</p>
- <p>1 MB = 1 048 576 bytes</p>
- <p>1 GB = 1 073 741 824 bytes</p>
+ <list style="compact">
+ <item><p>1 KB = 1 024 bytes</p></item>
+ <item><p>1 MB = 1 048 576 bytes</p></item>
+ <item><p>1 GB = 1 073 741 824 bytes</p></item>
+ </list>
</note>
</item>
<item>
<title>Location</title>
- <p>This is the absolute path to your item.</p>
+ <p>The absolute path to your item.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Volume</title>
- <p>Displayed for all file types and folders.</p>
+ <p>The file system or device that the file is stored on. This shows you
+ the storage medium the file is on, such as a
+ <link xref="disk-partitions">disk partition</link> on your computer, an
+ external drive or optical disc, or a
+ <link xref="nautilus-connect">network share or file server</link>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Free Space</title>
- <p>Only displayed for folders.</p>
+ <p>For folders, the amount of free space left for new files on the
+ containing volume.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Accessed</title>
- <p>Displayed for items other than folders. This is the last date and time that the item was opened.</p>
+ <p>The date and time when the file was last opened.</p>
</item>
-
-
<item>
<title>Modified</title>
- <p>Displayed for items other than folders. This is the last date and time that changes to the contents of the file were saved.</p>
+ <p>The date and time when the file was last changed and saved.</p>
</item>
-
</terms>
-
-</section>
-
-<section id="rename">
-<title>Renaming a File or Folder</title>
-<steps>
- <item><p>Right click on the file or folder, and select <gui>Properties</gui>.</p></item>
- <item><p>Click on the <gui>Basic</gui> tab.</p></item>
- <item><p>Delete the current name of the item in the <gui>Name</gui> textbox, and enter the new name.</p></item>
- <item><p>Click <gui>Close</gui> to exit the <gui>File Properties</gui>.</p></item>
-</steps>
-</section>
-
-
</page>
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