Menus

Introduction

This section describes the use of menus in gentoo. In this early release, the menu support is extremely limited; there's just one menu, and its contents are hard-coded...

The Dirpane Popup Menu

If you've only used gentoo for a couple of minutes, or perhaps just observed what it's supposed to look like on the screenshot, you might think that there are no menus. After all, there's no standard menu bar at the top of the window.

This is because there are no normal menus! The only menu currently available in gentoo is a simple "pop-up menu". It is accessed by placing the mouse pointer somewhere inside a directory pane, and then clicking (and holding down) the right mouse button. A small menu with the following options appears:

The items are, in order of appearance:

Parent

This goes up one directory level in the current pane.

Other

Set the path of the current pane to that of the other one.

Rescan

Clear pane contents, and rescan the path from the file system.

Select

Presents a submenu (as hinted by the little right arrow) with the following options:

	Select all items in current pane.
	Unselect all items in the current pane, thus clearing the selection.
	Toggle the selected/unselected state of each row. Inverts the set.
	Opens up the regular expression selection window.

Configure

Opens up the configuration window.