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 <title>The preferences box : views tab</title>
  
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        <title>The views tab.</title>
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<para><guilabel>Axis settings</guilabel></para>
<para>
Set axis colors in 3D views and where they should appear. These are default settings for newly created scenes.
</para>


<para><guilabel>Grids settings</guilabel></para>
<para>
Set grids colors in 3D views and where they should appear. These are default settings for newly created scenes.
</para>

<para><guilabel>Titlebar colors</guilabel></para>
<para>
Set 3D views titlebar colors ( for selected and unselected view ). This is provided in order to match deesktop look and feel, because those widgets are themes independants.
</para>

<para><guilabel>Misc. 3D views options</guilabel></para>
<para>
  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
    <guilabel>background colors : </guilabel>set 3D and 2D background colors. 
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
    <guilabel>default object colors : </guilabel>set default object colors. The selected object color is always used but the unselected object color is only used when there is no other color definition in the material used for the object ( or no material ).
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
    <guilabel>antialiasing : </guilabel>use antialiasing for OpenGL previews. Can slow down a lot preview.
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
    <guilabel>link 2d zoom : </guilabel>make all the 2d views having the same zoom factor.
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
    <guilabel>link views center : </guilabel>make the center of interest the same for all views : 2D and 3D.
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
    <guilabel>preview quality : </guilabel>preview quality level for common objects. Set accordingly to your machine performances.
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
    <guilabel>Implicit surfaces quality : </guilabel>preview quality level for implicit surfaces evaluation ( Blobs, Isosurfaces, Julia fractals... ) This is separated from other objects because it can be really time consumming.
    </listitem>
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