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-====== Using Columns UI ======+====== Customising the appearance of Columns UI ======
 At its stock settings, Columns UI will look similar to this: At its stock settings, Columns UI will look similar to this:
-{{ columns_ui:main_ui.png }}+{{ http://yuo.be/images/foo_ui_columns-0.3.png }}
  
 You can customise the main sections of the UI as follows. You can customise the main sections of the UI as follows.
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 ===== Toolbars ===== ===== Toolbars =====
 By right clicking in the toolbar area, you can add and remove toolbars. Holding SHIFT whilst adding a toolbar will insert a new instance of it. Rightclicking in the band area of the toolbar may bring up additional actions for that toolbar (such as the spectrum analyser). By right clicking in the toolbar area, you can add and remove toolbars. Holding SHIFT whilst adding a toolbar will insert a new instance of it. Rightclicking in the band area of the toolbar may bring up additional actions for that toolbar (such as the spectrum analyser).
 +==== Buttons ====
 +You can change the appearance of the buttons through the [[.config:buttons|buttons customisation dialog]] accessed through the buttons context menu.
 +==== Spectrum Analyser ====
 +You can change the colours used in the spectrum analyser from the context menu displayed when you right click on the spectrum analyser.
  
-===== Sidebar ===== 
-Similarly to the toolbars, right clicking on a caption allows you to add and remove panels. When adding a panel, holding SHIFT forces a new instance to be added, and CTRL cause the panel to be inserted at the point of right click.  
  
-See also [[.config:sidebar|Sidebar configuration]]+===== Layout ===== 
 +FIXME write section - live editing and [[.config:layout]] preferences page. 
 + 
 +===== Colours and fonts ===== 
 +You can change the colours used in the built-in panels from the [[.manual#colours and fonts|Colours and fonts preferences page]].
  
 ===== Playlist view ===== ===== Playlist view =====
-Customising of the playlist views is done thourgh the [[.config:playlist_view|Playlist view]], [[.config:globals|Globals]] and [[.config:columns|Columns]] configuration pages. Customising the colour for a column is done via a [[.config:colour string|colour string]]. This is either the global colour string, or the column colour string, depending on whether you have activated a custom colour string for that column. Adjusting the contents of the column is done via the column's display string. Adjusting the font, and exposed background colour is done via separate settings.+Customising of the playlist views is done through the [[.manual#playlist_view|Playlist view]] configuration pages. Customising the colour for on per-column basis is done via a [[.config:colour string|style script]]. This is either the global style script, or the column style script, depending on whether you have activated a custom style script for that column. Adjusting the contents of the column is done via the column's display script. Adjusting the font, and exposed background colour is done via separate settings.
  
 See the aforementioned configuration pages for more details on adjusting these settings. See the aforementioned configuration pages for more details on adjusting these settings.
  
 ===== Status bar ===== ===== Status bar =====
-You can adjust the font and shown panes of the status bar from the [[.config:systray_and_status_bar|Systray & Status bar]] configuration page. The contents of the main pane of the status bar can be adjusted through the Display/Titleformatting configuration page.+You can adjust the contents and shown panes of the status bar from the [[.config:Status bar]] configuration page.
  
 ===== Main window title ===== ===== Main window title =====
-The text of the main window title can be adjusted through the Display/Titleforastting configuration page.+The text of the main window title can be adjusted through the [[.config:main]] configuration page.
  
-===== Systray icon ===== +===== Notification area ===== 
-The text of the systray icon can be adjusted through the Display/Titleformatting configuration page. The icon can be changed through the [[.config:systray_and_status_bar|Systray & Status bar]] configuration page.+The text of the notification area icon's tooltip and the icon itself can be changed through the [[.config:notification area]] configuration page.
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