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13   Options

13.1  Preferences

Choose in the menu "Options" -> "Preferences" to show the options dialog:

Fig. 18: The Options dialog

13.1.1 Language

On this tab, you can choose the language of QCad. Currently QCad supports English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Galician. Please mail me if you like to translate QCad into an other language. The messages used in the program are all separated in the sub directory "messages". Therefore it's very easy to translate QCad into any language which is based on the ASCII signs.

13.1.2 Layout

The settings on this tab change the layout of QCad. Currently you can choose the font sizes for GUI elements, the grid info at right bottom in the graphic view and the font size for the status panel.

13.1.3 Paths

QCad launches a browser if the menu "Help" -> "Manual" was chosen or F1 was pressed. On the tab "Paths" you can specify the path to your favorite browser (e.g. '/opt/netscape/netscape'). However, if the browser can be started directly by typing its name on a shell, you can just type the name here (e.g. 'netscape'). If you want to use Lynx for reading the manual you must type the name of an x-terminal and start Lynx over an option of this terminal. For example if you use kvt as terminal, type: 'kvt -e lynx'.