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Suggestion for an addition to the menu - avj - 01-23-2016 I got to thinking about what windows users are used to having available from the menu, and thought it would be nice if the menu had access to user folders like the Documents, Downloads, Pictures, and others. So I made the menu entries on my system to see if it would work. Below is a screenshot of my results. ![]() For the item entries, in the command I entered "thunar" followed by a space, and the folder name of the folder for each item. Example: thunar Documents Re: Suggestion for an addition to the menu - Valtam - 01-23-2016 I really like this! This is a great idea ![]() Re: Suggestion for an addition to the menu - Valtam - 01-23-2016 ![]() Re: Suggestion for an addition to the menu - avj - 01-23-2016 Glad you like it, it should help new users with the transition to Linux in my opinion. It should help save mouse clicks as well. ![]() Re: Suggestion for an addition to the menu - Valtam - 01-23-2016 Look for this in LL 3.0 ![]() Re: Suggestion for an addition to the menu - Lynne - 01-23-2016 (01-23-2016, 04:12 AM)avj link Wrote: I got to thinking about what windows users are used to having available from the menu, and thought it would be nice if the menu had access to user folders like the Documents, Downloads, Pictures, and others. So I made the menu entries on my system to see if it would work. This is a very good idea @avj. ... ![]() I must admit to not missing this on the menu from windoze though, and for LL I have a panel link of the Home folder which is nice and easy for me to access all I want to get to. But then I changed from Thunar to Nautilus so I could have all my bookmarks and places available again. ... 8) Re: Suggestion for an addition to the menu - Valtam - 01-24-2016 We'll be using exo-open Documents for example in the Menu, so whatever your default file manager is, it will open it. Re: Suggestion for an addition to the menu - Lynne - 01-24-2016 (01-24-2016, 12:44 AM)Jerry link Wrote: We'll be using exo-open Documents for example in the Menu, so whatever your default file manager is, it will open it. I don't really understand what you mean @Jerry, even though I had a quick look at Google to see what it's supposed to mean. To me it's all gobbledly-gook at this stage. ??? I'll have to wait for LL 3.0 to understand it all. *sigh* ... 8) I get to modify this post, woohoo!... Since having a sleep and a couple of cups of coffee, I've been able to really have a look at this exo-open Documents thingy and boy, am I not impressed!! It smacks too much of "1984" and all those "out there" who can hack your computer can see exactly what you have ... all the metadata that is there, from emails to documents to anything on your computer. While it looks great from a "personal" point of view that only you have access, who knows who else will have access - children, husband, wife, breakup of a relationship, lawyers, judges, etc... ... :o Re: Suggestion for an addition to the menu - avj - 01-24-2016 To Jerry, that is awesome. ![]() To Lynne, I am not sure where the information you provided came from but, the manual page for exo-open doesn't suggest anything suspicious in my opinion. Code: EXO-OPEN(1) Xfce Users Manual EXO-OPEN(1) Re: Suggestion for an addition to the menu - gold_finger - 01-24-2016 (01-24-2016, 01:57 AM)Lynne link Wrote: Since having a sleep and a couple of cups of coffee, I've been able to really have a look at this exo-open Documents thingy and boy, am I not impressed!! It smacks too much of "1984" and all those "out there" who can hack your computer can see exactly what you have ... all the metadata that is there, from emails to documents to anything on your computer. While it looks great from a "personal" point of view that only you have access, who knows who else will have access - children, husband, wife, breakup of a relationship, lawyers, judges, etc... I don't know what you stumbled upon and read, but whatever it was it wasn't about the "exo-open" command. Sounds more like you stumbled on info about forensic data analysis tools that can be used to find things on hard drives, etc. That is a whole different ball of wax and has nothing to do with the "exo-open" command. Have a read through manual page posted by avj. Basically, "exo-open" is used as a generic replacement for specific commands to open specific programs. So, as per example being talked about here -- adding Documents, Music, etc. folders to the main menu -- if Jerry were to use the command for thunar to open the Document folder (thunar Documents) and you had decided to change your system to using the nautilus file manager, the command would not work for you (if you had deleted the thunar program), or would have opened the folder in thunar (if you still had it installed) even though you prefer using nautilus. So instead of using the specific command for the specific file manager thunar to open Documents, the exo-open command is used. It will first find out what is the preferred application on your system for opening files/folders, then execute that -- in your case, nautilus. Same basic idea applies to opening web links for another example. Some people may have deleted the default Firefox browser and instead use Chrome or some other browser, thus their preferred browser application is different than the initial default of firefox. Any command they try to execute that specifies firefox will fail because they don't have it installed anymore. But a command using exo-open will check the "preferred applications" list for browsers and open the link with the browser shown there. |