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GNOME 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris Operating Environment User Guide

To Set Icon Captions Preferences

An icon caption displays the name of a file or folder in an icon view. The icon caption also includes three additional items of information on the file or folder. The additional information is displayed after the file name. Normally only one item of information is visible, but when you zoom in on an icon, more of the information is displayed. You can modify what additional information is displayed in icon captions.

To set your preferences for icon captions, choose Edit -> Preferences. Choose Icon Captions from the Preferences dialog.

Preferences dialog, Icon Captions section. The context describes the graphic.

Select the items of information that you want to display in the icon caption from the three drop-down lists. Select the first item from the first drop-down list, select the second item from the second drop-down list, and so on. The following table describes the items of information that you can select:

Information 

Description  

Size

Choose this option to display the size of the item. 

Type

Choose this option to display the description of the MIME type of the item from the File Types and Programs preference tool.

Date modified

Choose this option to display the last modification date of the item. 

Date changed

Choose this option to display the last modification date of the inode of the item. An inode is a data structure that contains information about individual files in UNIX file systems. Each file has one inode. An inode contains the node, type, owner, and location of a file.

Date accessed

Choose this option to display the date that the item was last accessed. 

Owner

Choose this option to display the owner of the item. 

Group

Choose this option to display the group to which the owner of the item belongs. 

Permissions

Choose this option to display the permissions of the item as three sets of three characters, for example -rwxrw-r--.

Octal permissions

Choose this option to display the permissions of the item in octal notation, for example 764.

MIME type

Choose this option to display the MIME type of the item. 

None

Choose this option to display no information for the item.