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2 <section id="GuideOptionsFiltering">
3 <title id="titleGuideOptionsFiltering">File Filters Options</title>
4 <para>This section describes the options presented under the File Filters Tab of the preferences dialogue.</para>
11 <guilabel>Show hidden files or folders</guilabel>
14 <para>Enables the display of hidden files and folders, also known as dot files.</para>
19 <guilabel>Show parent folder</guilabel>
22 <para>Enables the display of the parent folder as a double dot in the directories views.</para>
27 <guilabel>Case sensitive sort</guilabel>
30 <para>Files and folders are sorted such that upper case letters occur before lower case letters.</para>
32 Enabled result: A, B, C, a, b, c
34 Disabled result: A, a, B, b, C, c
40 <guilabel>Natural sort order</guilabel>
43 <para>Files and folders are sorted with the dot '.' treated as a special case, so the order is e.g. "event.c" "event.h" "eventgenerator.c". Also, files containing numbers are sorted as "file1" "file5" "file10".</para>
44 <note>If this option is selected and a standard numerical sort is required and the files are in a single folder, a workaround is to put the files in a temporary collection and select Sort By Path</note>
49 <guilabel>Disable file extension checks</guilabel>
52 <para>During rename operations, allows files to be renamed to a different extension with no warning issued.</para>
57 <guilabel>Disable file filtering</guilabel>
60 <para>Enable this to allow Geeqie to list all files, even those that do not contain images.</para>
66 <section id="Groupingsidecarextensions">
67 <title>Grouping sidecar extensions</title>
68 <para>This field defines which extensions will lead to file grouping. Grouped files will appear as a single entry in file views. This is useful, for example, when browsing directories containing two files for the same image (such as raw+jpeg files generated by some cameras).</para>
69 <para>The group is represented by the first extension in the list for which a file exists.</para>
71 Each extension should include the starting dot and should be separated by a semi-colon from following entries. It is possible to use wild-cards corresponding to entries in the
72 <emphasis>File Types Class</emphasis>
77 <literal>%unknown</literal>
80 expands to all files listed in class
81 <emphasis>Unknown</emphasis>
87 <literal>%image</literal>
90 expands to all files listed in class
91 <emphasis>Image</emphasis>
97 <literal>%raw</literal>
100 expands to all files listed in class
101 <emphasis>RAW Image</emphasis>
106 <literal>%meta</literal>
109 expands to all files listed in class
110 <emphasis>Metadata</emphasis>
118 <section id="Filetypes">
119 <title>File types</title>
121 This list contains the image formats that are understood by Geeqie. To disable a specific file type from being displayed, uncheck it's corresponding check-box. Filters can be edited by first selecting the line containing the item to be changed, then clicking the filter or description field, making any changes, then pressing
122 <keycap>Enter</keycap>
124 <keycap>Escape</keycap>
125 to cancel an active edit.
128 <para>Unlike all other options in the dialogue, filter list changes are applied immediately.</para>
131 The table consists of:
135 <guilabel>Enabled</guilabel>
138 Whether or not the filter is used.
143 <guilabel>Filter</guilabel>
146 List of extensions this filter applies to, separated by a
148 . Each extension must be preceded by a dot.
153 <guilabel>Description</guilabel>
155 <listitem>Brief description. This is not used elsewhere.</listitem>
159 <guilabel>Class</guilabel>
162 This may be used to define sets of file types, for use in the
163 <emphasis>Grouping</emphasis>
164 function described above. The drop-down list has 7 entries:
166 <listitem>Unknown</listitem>
167 <listitem>Image</listitem>
168 <listitem>RAW Image</listitem>
169 <listitem>Metadata</listitem>
170 <listitem>Video</listitem>
171 <listitem>Collection</listitem>
172 <listitem>Document</listitem>
173 <listitem>Archive (.zip, .rar etc.)</listitem>
179 <guilabel>Writable</guilabel>
181 <listitem>If this option is checked, Geeqie will try to write metadata to the image file itself. This, and the following option, are mutually exclusive.</listitem>
185 <guilabel>Sidecar is allowed</guilabel>
187 <listitem>If this option is checked, Geeqie will try to write metadata to a sidecar file associated with the image. This, and the previous option, are mutually exclusive.</listitem>
196 <inlinegraphic fileref="list-add.png" />
201 <listitem>Adds a new blank line to the filter list, change the parameters to match the desired file type.</listitem>
209 <inlinegraphic fileref="list-remove.png" />
214 <listitem>Removes the selected line from the filter list.</listitem>
220 <guibutton>Defaults</guibutton>
222 <listitem>Resets the filter list to the default values, discarding any customizations made by the user.</listitem>
228 <guibutton>Column Sorting</guibutton>
230 <listitem>Columns other than Filter can be sorted in ascending or descending order by clicking on the column header.</listitem>
236 <guibutton>Filter Search</guibutton>
238 <listitem>A search of the file extensions listed in the Filter column can be initiated either by typing <code>Ctrl + F</code> or by pressing any alpha-numeric key when the File Types table has focus.</listitem>