Overview of the Toolchest

Documentation / Contents - Toolchest

• Overview of the Toolchest
• The Toolchest Menu
  • Posting a Menu
  • Greyed-Out Entries
• Launching Applications
  • What the Toolchest Does Not Do
• Shape, Orientation, and Title
  • Vertical or Horizontal
  • The Title Bar and the Desk Name
• The Task Area
  • Alternate Toolchest Shapes

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• Copyright Information

The Toolchest: An Overview

The Toolchest is Blueprint's always-present launcher. It is a small bar of titled buttons, and each button opens a menu of programs and desktop commands. Blueprint's Toolchest program is called cychest. It is the "what can I run and how do I reach it" surface of the desktop, meant to sit in a corner and stay put while you work.

In This Book

• The Toolchest Menu
• Launching Applications
• Shape, Orientation, and Title
• The Task Area

The Menu File

Every entry in the Toolchest comes from one plain-text menu file, kept at ~/.cyanotype/menu. The desktop right-click menu reads that same file, so the two always agree. You can edit it by hand or through the desktop's Customize tools.