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Idea #28574: Mains folders, shortcuts and symlinks are not draggable in Unity

Written by Spitfire 95 the 24 Sep 11 at 10:02. Related project: Unity. Status: New
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In Unity you can't make links to your mains folders, your bookmarks or create symlinks to a folder.
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Solution #1: Add the mains folders and bookmarks on Nautilus/Home's launcher
Written by Spitfire 95 the 24 Sep 11 at 10:02.
On right click on nautilus' (or home) launcher, we should have :
-Home folder
-Documents
-Mucis
-videos
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.
-Bookmark #1
-Bookmark #2
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Remove from launcher
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Solution #2: Allow Unity to add a link to a folder in the Launcher by drag and drop
Written by Spitfire 95 the 24 Sep 11 at 10:04.
Unity should allow users to drag and drop a folder to the Launcher, to open easily the folder by clicking on it.
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Solution #3: Easy way to make a quicklist
Written by brk0_0 the 30 Sep 11 at 16:20.
By default, when you right click on a Unity icon, there would be a "customize" option.

This would give the user a easier way to make quicklists than editing .desktop files.

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Vahan Harutyunyan (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 24 Sep 11 at 18:56
Solution #1:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/35488/list-of-custom-launchers-quicklists-for-un ity

Spitfire 95 wrote on the 27 Sep 11 at 16:43
Yes, I know but most of users won't be able to edit .desktop files, and then after each upgrade of Nautilus we'll have to remake this so that's not viable.
The same thing should be done for LibreOffice starter, it would be glade if every LibreOffice's apps where startable from a right click on its launcher's icon.

Vahan Harutyunyan (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 5 Oct 11 at 19:42
Solution #4 removed. The solution is not relevant to this idea.

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 11 Oct 11 at 00:58
Please direct Unity feedback to http://unity.ubuntu.com.
Unity does not take feedback from Brainstorm.

Unity is still quite new, and many features are planned once the codebase is stable enough to keep the necessary APIs reliable.

Darwin Survivor (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 2 Apr 13 at 19:41
Reopening since Unity is now fairly mature and should be able to take new suggestions for improvement.


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