Directory Menu

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Quickly navigate through directories on your system using a dropdown menu.

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Directory Menu for Cinnamon

Open a directory of your choice in a dropdown menu, offering a compact view and/or a faster navigation through the file tree.

This is a re-creation of a built-in feature in XFCE.

Features

View the selected directory as a compact list
Arbitrarily deep navigation through subdirectories
Fast navigation: just hover on a directory to open it
Open any file by clicking on it
"Open in Terminal" button for directories
Configurable settings for sorting, handling hidden files, limiting menu width, and customization

Installation

Download or clone this repo, then put the directory-menu@torchipeppo directory (contained in the files directory) into ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/

Compatibility

Developed, tested and extensively used by the author on Cinnamon 5.0.7 and Cinnamon 6.0.

Also tested successfully on Cinnamon 5.2.

Likely to work in near-future versions. May also work in some previous versions, but it's untested there, so there's no guarantee.

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8 Comments

Xalalau Xubilozo-6 months ago

Hi! I need two extra things and this will be the perfect widget: 1) Mint Favorites support (favorites:///) (all my shortcuts are there, it keeps my system organized); 2) Right-click context menu support instead of limiting actions to opening the folder or the terminal, at the top of the window - wasting space. Thank you very much for this widget, it's the closest anyone has come to replacing this program for me on Linux: https://github.com/Hofknecht/SystemTrayMenu

Francesco Petri-5 months ago

Hi, sorry for the late reply. I just noticed this comment by chance. In general, new comments on this website do NOT send any sort of notification to me, so if you have a feature request or another reason to require my attention I strongly suggest you also open an issue on the appropriate Cinnamon Spices repo on GitHub. For example, the one for applets is https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets (even if you already know, this note might be useful for somebody else). As for your points: 1. Looks like you've already implemented a solution that could be useful other users too, thank you! I think I could turn this into an optional feature that's toggled with a new setting*. I'm not promising any ETA, but in the meantime, would you mind opening a pull request or an issue on the repo above so I can get back to you if I have any questions? 2. I don't think that's feasible, since the Directory Menu is itself a context menu. Maybe a new functionality that allows you to click a directory to open it, combined with the setting to "Hide Open and Open In Terminal", would solve your concerns of wasted space? * This new setting could also serve as a stepping stone for the now-highly requested secondary drive listing... I'm thinking about a "Base list type" setting that lets you choose one of "Directory", "Favorites", or possibly "Drives" in the future.

Xalalau Xubilozo-5 months ago

Yeah, I gave up on (2) while modifying the code. My intention was to show Nemo's context menu on the files, which would have been great. Your Base list type looks like a dropdown for me, I'll try to add it in a PR then.

Xalalau Xubilozo-6 months ago

ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ︵ ┻━┻ https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/10861#issuecomment-2779624141

n6id-7 months ago

this is great. i would love if it could also list secondary drives :))

Igor Santos-1 year ago

This is definitely missing a way to show first most recent files, instead of alpha-sorted only :)

Francesco Petri-11 months ago

I'm happy to say this is now in the newest version! ^_^

fr4g3-1 year ago

Love this man. Thank You for making this applet. This is the one thing i missed most from MATE. Also it would be great if it had a separate section showing connected External Storage/Drives