<!-- Preferences -->
 <chapter id="preferences">
  <title>Preferences</title>
  <para>
   Preferences are ways to customize <application>Anjuta</application> to suit
   your tastes. Activate <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem>
   </menuchoice> to bring up the preferences dialog. Some preferences are explained below.
  </para>
  <sect1 id="prefs-general"><title>General</title>
    <orderedlist>
     <listitem><para>
      <emphasis>Project Directory</emphasis> is the path where you plan to put all your projects.
      The application wizard creates new projects in this directory only. The default project directory
      is ~/Projects and generally this is fine for most people.
      </para>
     </listitem>
      <listitem><para>
       <emphasis>User Info:</emphasis> Provide your name and email address here. These are not
       used to do software registration; rather, they are used to create ChangeLog entries and other
       text insertions.</para>
      </listitem>
     </orderedlist>
    </sect1>
    <sect1 id="prefs-files"><title>File Manager</title>
    <orderedlist>
     <listitem><para>
      <emphasis>Root directory if no project is open</emphasis> is the path where
      the root of the file manager points if no project is currently open.
      </para>
     </listitem>
      <listitem><para>
       <emphasis>File Filter:</emphasis> You can filter out some files from the file tree, for example,
       hidden files, or files that are ignored by the version control system which usually means they are
       generated at build time and should not be changed.
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </orderedlist>
    </sect1>
 </chapter>
