OpenTracker is the core component of the BeOS desktop. The desktop on your computer can look like your physical desktop - it can be full of folders, icons, and works in progress. OpenTracker lets you organize it the way you want. OpenTracker provides an easy way to view, manage, and customize your own files and folders. It integrates your access to files, applications and media, making it easy and fast for you to locate and use all the resources available to you.

• It displays files and directories using either the "icon view", "mini icon view" or the "list view" where you can see more detailed file information and attributes.
• It allows copying, moving and deleting, by direct drag and drop or through the menu.
• It provides properties of a file, to see and change its attributes in the info dialog box.

• To create a relative symlink hold down shift before accessing the link creation menu, you'll see that "Create Link" will be replaced by "Create Relative Link".
• You may specify a second sorting column by shift+clicking the column you want to be the 2nd sorting rule
• You probably already know about the Open With... menu you get when you right-click on a document. But much of the time, you've already got running instances of the applications you want to access via Open With... A faster alternative is to drag a file's icon onto running application entries in Deskbar. As you roll over the various application entries, only those running apps that are capable of handling the dragged file will become highlighted. So if you've got an HTML file on your desktop and you want to open it in a text editor rather than in a browser, just drag the file onto the entry for your currently running text editor in Deskbar. This is faster and easier than using Open With..., although the technique is limited to currently running apps, while Open With... will find all suitable candidate applications on your system.
• While you've probably already seen the "Configure Be Menu" menu item in Deskbar, many people don't know there's an even easier way to quickly add new entries to the Be Menu. Drag any file or folder into the top part of the Be Menu, rather than over the running application entries as above. Scroll down through the Be Menu's folders if desired. When you release the mouse, check your Be Menu again — you'll find that you've now got permanent one-click access to that file or folder. In truth, you've just created a symlink to that object in /boot/home/config/be, which, once upon a time, was the only way to configure the Be Menu.

• One neat feature is that you can slide the tab/title bar along the top of the window. To do this, hold the shift key down and then drag the title bar with your mouse. This lets you stack several windows on top of each other with "tabs" in different places. Useful when you want to quickly flit between several applications.

  This is not only limited to Tracker but works with all programs with a title bar. For example, if you are working in a couple of Terminal windows, you can slide each of the tabs so that they line up at the top, making it easier to spot which terminal you want to switch to.

• Until recently, many of Tracker's more advanced configuration options were accessible only by editing a text file located at /boot/home/config/settings/Tracker/TrackerSettings. These days, however, BeOS users can set all of these options graphically — just pull down Window->Settings in any Tracker window. The new GUI has another advantage — you no longer have to restart Tracker after making your changes — all changes are applied in real time.

• Hompage Page -
http://opentracker.sourceforge.net/
• Project Page -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opentracker/
• BeOS Tip Server -
Tracker/Deskbar Tips
• OpenTrackerIssues
• OpenDeskbarIssues