This chapter will review the most important applications bundled with eyeOS, but the
best way to discover all its possibilities is to explore it yourself!
3.1. eyeFiles: The file manager
eyeFiles is the eyeOS file manager. From eyeFiles you can upload your files and
documents from your hard drive to eyeOS, move and manage them between different
instances of the application, and launch a wide variety of files to be reproduced/shown
with each specific application.
To launch eyeFiles, just click on the Home icon on your Desktop or open File
Manager in the Office menu at eyeDock.
Once you are on the application, you will see three zones:
● The left bar with the common Actions and Places.
● A top bar with the current path. You can use it to navigate by text trough your
Home space. Note that if you are root you will be able to navigate trough the
whole eyeOS virtual file system.
●
The files space, where you will see all the files and folders inside your current
directory (by default, your Home directory).
3.1.1. Common Actions
The eyeFiles actions can be launched by clicking on it's icon on the left bar. Note that
you must click first the Action and finally the file or folder where it will be applied.
3.1.1.1. Example on using an action
To show how to use actions in eyeFiles, we will copy and paste a file:
1. Click on the “Copy” action (Note that the action's background turns blue).
2. Click on the file you want to copy.
3. Go to the folder where you want to paste the file.
4. Click on the “Paste” action.
This process applies also to Download, Download as zip, Delete, Rename and
Properties.