Places

Originally written by Diego Ongaro, this plugin is a menu with quick access to folders, documents, and removable media. The places plugin brings much of the functionality of GNOME's Places menu to Xfce.

The plugin puts a simple button on the panel. Clicking on this button opens up a menu with the following:

1) System-defined directories (home folder, trash, desktop, file system)

2) Removable media (using thunar-vfs)

3) User-defined bookmarks (reads ~/.gtk-bookmarks)

4) Search program launcher (optional)

5) Recent documents submenu (requires GTK+ v2.10 or greater)

Just add it to the panel. User-defined bookmarks can be modified with a file manager or by manually editing ~/.gtk-bookmarks. You can configure the plugin by right-clicking on the button and selecting Properties (see screenshot below).

OK, this first one's not really a screenshot. My friend made this cake to celebrate the 1.0 release (her suggestion). It took some minor damage in transit, then some major damage when I ate it. Good stuff, though. Thanks, Melanie.

For this screenshot, I plugged in my IPOD:

Here, I've clicked on the IPOD menu item and am about to mount it:

You can see the recent documents in this screenshot (taken with my IPOD unplugged):

Here's what it looks like when configured to display a label:

The search program launcher looks like this:

And the properties/preferences dialog:

• Updates a ton of translations (thanks to the i18n team)
• Adds XDG user dirs support (thanks to Andea Santilli, bug #4461)
• Uses XDG icon names (thanks to Yves-Alexis Perez, bug #5034)
• Shows “Eject” option on removable volumes when Thunar 1.0 does (bug #4136)
• Makes the properties dialog non-modal
• Honors GTK's menu icon size (bug #4744)
• Calls the file browser through exo instead of directly opening Thunar (thanks to Christian Dywan, bug #4463)
• Fixes some issues on shutdown
• Takes advantage of the panel's menu positioning on Xfce 4.6

xfce4-places-plugin-1.2.0.tar.bz2

• “xfce4-popup-places” command to open the menu
• Error messages when mounts/unmounts fail
• Grays out panel icon while busy (un)mounting
• Multiple bug fixes and enhancements (see ChangeLog)

xfce4-places-plugin-1.1.0.tar.bz2

• Added “Mount and Open” action for removable media (Bug #3565)
• Fixed make distcheck errors
• Fixed menu “blinking” when ~/.gtk-bookmarks not found
• Fixed always showing “No items found” in recent documents with GTK 2.12 (Bug #3605)
• Adopted menu positioning from notes plugin for improved behavior with floating panels

xfce4-places-plugin-1.0.0.tar.bz2

• Reorganization of GUI code
• Improved plugin sizing algorithm
• “Open” menu item now opens with Thunar, as intended
• Now polls for model changes (e.g., new devices) while menu is open
• Fix bug #3471 (Rightclick action pins autohidden panel)

xfce4-places-plugin-0.9.992.tar.bz2

• Adds mount/unmount options for volumes (removable media)
• Adds Open Terminal Here option where applicable
• Search for Files with an external application
• The trash icon now shows whether there's anything in the trash
• Large internal clean-up
• Other minor bug fixes

xfce4-places-plugin-0.9.991.tar.bz2

• Adds preferences dialog (optionally show a label on the panel)
• Thunar now opens when middle-clicking the button (Bug #3239)
• Bug fixes
• #3237: Places won't compile on Debian testing
• With no .gtk-bookmarks, the menu showed two consecutive separators

xfce4-places-plugin-0.3.0.tar.bz2

• Support for volumes (removable media), recent documents
• Now has 35 translations, taken from Thunar and gnome-panel.
• Rewritten view based on xfdesktop's menu and .gtk-bookmarks parsing based on Thunar's parser
• Many bug fixes
  • #3028: Places button activated when dragged away
  • #3029: Places ignores orientation-changed
  • #3030: Places shows missing menu items
  • #3124: Auto-hidden panel hides on plugin activation

xfce4-places-plugin-0.2.0.tar.bz2

This is the first stable release.

• Adds i18n support
• Fixes URL escaping display issue (#3027)
• Fixes hard-coded Thunar path (#3053)

xfce4-places-plugin-0.1.0.tar.bz2

Xfce 4.4 (or 4.3.99)

Thunar VFS v0.4

GTK v2.6 (v2.10 required for Recent Documents)

Bugs should be reported to the Xfce bug tracking system (classification Panel Plugins, product Xfce4-places-plugin).

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