<chapter id="save-settings">

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<date
>2002-09-22</date>
<releaseinfo
>3.1</releaseinfo>
</chapterinfo>

<title
>Saving Settings &amp; Profiles</title>

<para
>When you close down &konqueror; your current <guimenu
>View</guimenu
> menu settings (such as the <guimenuitem
> View Mode</guimenuitem
>, <guimenuitem
>Use index.html</guimenuitem
> and <guimenuitem
>Show Hidden Files </guimenuitem
> items) are automatically saved as the default options to be used next time &konqueror; is started.</para>

<para
>But you can also specify different <guimenu
>View</guimenu
> menu settings for any individual directory. To do this check the <guimenuitem
>View Properties Saved in Directory</guimenuitem
> box in the <guimenu
>Settings</guimenu
> menu, change the <guimenu
>View</guimenu
> settings to whatever you want then uncheck the <guimenuitem
>View Properties saved in Directory</guimenuitem
> box. Doing this creates a <filename
>.directory</filename
> file in that directory to hold the directory <guimenu
>View</guimenu
> settings. Use the <menuchoice
><guimenu
> Settings</guimenu
><guimenuitem
>Remove Directory Properties</guimenuitem
> </menuchoice
> option to remove the directory specific settings (or just delete the <filename
>.directory</filename
> file).</para>
<note
><para
>One nice use of this feature is if you have a directory full of pictures. You can set that particular directory to display thumbnails of the pictures (by choosing <guimenuitem
>Icon View</guimenuitem
> and <menuchoice
> <guisubmenu
>Preview</guisubmenu
><guimenuitem
>Show Previews</guimenuitem
> </menuchoice
> from the <guimenu
>View</guimenu
> menu) when you open it, while not displaying images as thumbnails in other directories.</para
></note>

<para
>&konqueror;'s overall appearance when you start it up is determined by one of two profiles, depending on whether you start it as a File Manager or as a Browser. These control the window size, whether the window is split into two or more views, whether the Navigation Panel or Terminal Emulator are shown, and the starting directory or &URL;.</para>

<para
>To change this start up behaviour, simply set &konqueror; to whatever you want, then in the <guimenu
>Settings</guimenu
> menu select <guimenuitem
> Save View Profile &quot;File Management&quot;</guimenuitem
> or <guimenuitem
> Save View Profile &quot;Web Browsing&quot;</guimenuitem
> depending on which mode you are in. If you want &konqueror; to start up with an empty window enter <userinput
>about:blank</userinput
> into the location bar before saving the profile.</para
>     

<para
>You can also create extra start up profiles and save them with the <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Settings</guimenu
><guimenuitem
>Configure View Profiles...</guimenuitem
></menuchoice
> option. You can then select them from the <menuchoice
><guimenu
>Settings</guimenu
><guimenuitem
>Load View Profile </guimenuitem
></menuchoice
> drop down menu when you have started &konqueror; </para>
    
<note
><para
> You can create a desktop icon to start &konqueror; with your new profile. First create a desktop icon by dragging the &konqueror; icon from the <guimenu
>K</guimenu
> menu onto the desktop and selecting <guimenuitem
>Copy Here</guimenuitem
>. Then <mousebutton
>right</mousebutton
> click on the new icon, select <guimenuitem
>Properties...</guimenuitem
> and change <guilabel
>Program Name</guilabel
> in the <guilabel
>Execute</guilabel
> tab page to <userinput
><command
>kfmclient</command
> <option
>openProfile <replaceable
>MyNewProfile</replaceable
></option
></userinput
>, <replaceable
>MyNewProfile</replaceable
> being what you called the new profile. Then in the <guilabel
>General</guilabel
> tab page change the name to something like <filename
>MyNewProfile</filename
> and pick a more suitable icon.</para
></note>


<para
>KDE British Conversion John Knight <email
>anarchist_tomato@herzeleid.net</email
></para>

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