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Fix contextual menus in lateral bars. Use button_release_event instead of button_press_event, this makes contextual menus persistent until an option is selected or the menu is closed.
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date Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:44:31 +0000
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<section id="GuideReferenceManagement">
    <title>
      Cache and Data Maintenance
    </title>
    <para>
      Thumbnails and other cached data can be maintained from the dialog accessible by selecting Thumbnail maintenance from the Edit menu of the main window.
    </para>
    <para/><section id="Geeqiethumbnailcache"><title>
      Geeqie thumbnail cache
    </title>
    <para>
      The utilities listed here operate on the Geeqie caching mechanism. This also includes the data cached for the <link linkend="GuideImageSearchSearch">search</link> and <link linkend="GuideImageSearchFindingDuplicates">find duplicates</link> utilities.
    </para>
    <variablelist><varlistentry><term>
        Clean up
      </term><listitem><para/></listitem></varlistentry></variablelist>
    <para>
      Removes thumbnails and data for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified since the thumbnail was generated.
    </para>
    <variablelist><varlistentry><term>
        Clear cache
      </term><listitem><para/></listitem></varlistentry></variablelist>
    <para>
      Removes all thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.geeqie/thumbnails.
    </para>
    <para/></section><section id="Sharedthumbnailcache"><title>
      Shared thumbnail cache
    </title>
    <para>
      The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.
    </para>
    <variablelist><varlistentry><term>
        Clean up
      </term><listitem><para/></listitem></varlistentry></variablelist>
    <para>
      Removes thumbnails for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified since the thumbnail was generated.
    </para>
    <variablelist><varlistentry><term>
        Clear cache
      </term><listitem><para/></listitem></varlistentry></variablelist>
    <para>
      Removes all thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.
    </para>
    <para/></section><section id="Createthumbnails"><title>
      Create thumbnails
    </title>
    <para>
      This utility will render thumbnails using the current thumbnail caching mechanism, as determined in <link linkend="GuideOptionsGeneral">preferences</link>.
    </para>
    <variablelist><varlistentry><term>
        Render
      </term><listitem><para/></listitem></varlistentry></variablelist>
    <para>
      Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:
    </para>
    <variablelist><varlistentry><term>
        Include subfolders
      </term><listitem><para/></listitem></varlistentry></variablelist>
    <para>
      Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.
    </para>
    <variablelist><varlistentry><term>
        Store thumbnails local to source images
      </term><listitem><para/></listitem></varlistentry></variablelist>
    <para>
      The generated thumbnails will be stored local to the source images, if you have the permissions to write to the folder containing the images.
    </para>
    <para/></section><section id="Metadata"><title>
      Metadata
    </title>
    <para>
      This utility operates on the data store for <link linkend="GuideSidebarsKeywords">keywords and comments?</link> located in the user's home folder: $HOME/.geeqie/metadata.
    </para>
    <variablelist><varlistentry><term>
        Clean up
      </term><listitem><para/></listitem></varlistentry></variablelist>
    <para>
      Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.
    </para>
    <para/></section><section id="Filelocations"><title>
      File locations
    </title>
    <para>
      The various file locations and their use are listed below. <emphasis role="i">&amp;lt;HOME&amp;gt;</emphasis> refers to your home folder and <emphasis role="i">&amp;lt;SOURCE&amp;gt;</emphasis> refers to the folder containing the image.
    </para>
    <informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><tbody><row><entry>
          Folder or File name
        </entry><entry>
          Description
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          Thumbnails
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;HOME&gt;</emphasis>/.thumbnails
        </entry><entry>
          Shared thumbnail cache folder.
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;HOME&gt;</emphasis>/.geeqie/thumbnails
        </entry><entry>
          Classic Geeqie thumbnail cache folder. Also used to cache data used for the search and find duplicates utilities to increase the speed for subsequent searches.
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</emphasis>thumbnails
        </entry><entry>
          Local thumbnail cache folder.
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          Metadata (keywords and comments)
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;HOME&gt;</emphasis>/.geeqie/metadata
        </entry><entry>
          Metadata stored in user's home folder.
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;SOURCE&gt;</emphasis>/.metadata
        </entry><entry>
          Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          Collections
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;HOME&gt;</emphasis>/.geeqie/collections
        </entry><entry>
          Default location for Geeqie collections, collections in this folder will appear in the <link linkend="GuideSidebarsSortManager">sort manager</link> sidebar.
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          Preferences
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;HOME&gt;</emphasis>/.geeqie
        </entry><entry>
          Geeqie preferences folder.
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;HOME&gt;</emphasis>/.geeqie/geeqierc
        </entry><entry>
          Geeqie preferences rc file.
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;HOME&gt;</emphasis>/.geeqie/history
        </entry><entry>
          Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;HOME&gt;</emphasis>/.geeqie/accels
        </entry><entry>
          Keyboard shortcut mapping.
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          Safe Delete
        </entry></row>
<row><entry>
          <emphasis role="i">&lt;HOME&gt;</emphasis>/.geeqie/trash
        </entry><entry>
          Default location of the safe delete folder.
        </entry></row>
</tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
  <para/></section></section>