Ubuntu: Up and Running

Other File Attributes

As if all that weren’t enough, a number of other file attributes are available to you. To view them, right-click on a file and select Properties to bring up a window such as the one shown in Figure 5-9. Here, you can see a number of tabs, which vary according to the file type or folder selected.

The tabs provide even more control over what you can do with your files and how they are displayed, and include the following:

Basic

Lists basic details about a file or folder, such as its type, size, and location, whether it is a link to another file or folder, and statistics about when the file was last accessed or modified. You can also change the file or folder’s name here.

Emblems

Ubuntu icons are great because you can attach secondary icons called emblems that appear above and to the right of them. Figure 5-10 shows the Desktop emblem being attached to swirl2.png (because it is being used for the desktop wallpaper). You can choose emblems representing hobbies, finance, games, important files, photos, social networking, and more.

Permissions

I already covered the Permissions tab in the earlier section Users and Groups, which contained a screenshot of the options shown earlier in Figure 5-5. But, to recap, this is where you set a file’s users, groups, and read, write and executable attributes.

Open With

Many types of file can be opened with more than one type of program. For example, as Figure 5-11 illustrates, by default Ubuntu offers a choice of four different programs ...