Preferences

While most of Butler's settings are specific for a given item and thus controled in the configuration's Inspector, there are some global — i.e., item-independent — settings. Those are organized in the following sections:

General

These settings let you control Butler's startup behavior, determine the range of folders Butler scans for its applications database, and determine how frequently Butler will update its cache. The latter is used for triggering items via abbreviation and controling iTunes, for instance.

Docklet

These settings control the behavior and appearance of the docklet.

Menus

These settings control the behavior and appearance of Butler's menus.

Abbreviations

These settings control some of the basic features of Butler's abbreviations functionality.

Editing

Most importantly, you can choose your active corners here.

Looks

These are the appearance settings that didn't go well with any of the other preference categories.

Miscellany

Odds and ends. For instance, you can configure Butler to work with Path Finder instead of the Finder here.

Updates

Use these settings to control Butler's auto-update functionality.

Plug-ins

Depending on whether you have installed any plug-ins for Butler, those might provide you with their settings here.