Chapter 3. Short and obsolete documentation

Table of Contents
How to use and edit a catalog?
What are categories for?
What use is the "Clean descriptions" function?
How do I search for a file?
Why do some folder names have -> at the end and an adress after?
What does VFS stand for ?

The following is the old README that Mathieu Villegas wrote when he began programming GTKtalog. This documentation is obsolete.

How to use and edit a catalog?

To begin, you have to edit the GTKtalog configuration by using the "Setup" function in the "Edit" list of the menubar. At this time, you must config plugins (softwares) you want to use and the CD-rom config informations to use the fast add disk function.

To add a disk to the curent catalog, go in the Edit menu and choose the "Add disk" function. You will see a dialog for choosing the directory location of the disk. You have to input a disk label at this time, but will be able to change it.

The other solution is to use the "fast add" button, and set the disk label while gtktalog mount, scan, umount and eject your CD.

To see files informations loaded by plugins, you just have to double click on the file. To edit the information, click on the file with the right button and choose edit informations.

To edit disk, folder or file data, select it with the left mouse button, then right click and choose the edit option. Alternatively, a middle mouse button click accomplishes the same thing. When you edit a disk or a folder, you can propagate category and desciption informations in subfolders and directory without changing the catalog size!

To add a category, go to Edit->Edit_category menu, or if you are editing a disk, file, or folder, click on the button to the right of the "Change category" frame.

To edit the description information, just type in the entry field or use an old description with using the combo box.