Places
About
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)
Usage
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).
Screenshots
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:
Releases
Version 1.2
- 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
Version 1.1
- “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)
Version 1.0 (final)
- 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
Version 1.0beta2 (v0.9.992)
- 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)
Version 1.0beta1 (v0.9.991)
- 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
Version 0.3
- 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
Version 0.2
- 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
Version 0.1
This is the first stable release.
- Adds i18n support
- Fixes URL escaping display issue (#3027)
- Fixes hard-coded Thunar path (#3053)
Dependencies
Xfce 4.4 (or 4.3.99)
Thunar VFS v0.4
GTK v2.6 (v2.10 required for Recent Documents)
Reporting Bugs
Bugs should be reported to the Xfce bug tracking system (classification Panel Plugins
, product Xfce4-places-plugin
).