Direct

This Direct applet provides direct and easy access to your Directories, Favorites, Recent documents and System locations.

The Direct@claudiux applet is a fork from the placesCenter@scollins applet, with several improvements and additions.

Features

• Easy-to-read layout with multiple columns, which can be rearranged.
• You can decide whether or not to display each column.
• Possible columns are: User bookmarks (as for nemo), Favorites (documents and applications), Recent documents, System locations, Custom locations and applications.
• All entries are file manager independent (which means that they should work for nautilus, nemo, and probably any other file manager as well).
• Option to display all volumes, or just the ones that are mounted.
• Supports bookmarks (eg. from Nemo).
• Supports additional user defined places.
• Ability to set the panel icon and text (symbolic icons supported).
• Option to show favorite documents. This section is not displayed when the number of favorites is zero.
• Option to show favorite applications. This section is not displayed when the number of favorite applications is zero.
• Option to show recent documents (click on a recent document to open it; right-click to open the folder that contains it).
• Option to show session links: Logout and Quit.
• Option to open custom documents and applications. You can separate them with categories.
• Quick keyboard access (choose your shortcut).
• Search tool that allows you to quickly search for files and folders (supports regular expressions).
• Use the middle click to open the folder you have selected (default: your personal home folder).

Icon browser

This is optional, but very useful.

You can install the yad package. This will allow you to use the yad-icon-browser program to browse icons, choose the one you want, and copy/paste its name. After install, please restart this applet or Cinnamon.

This icon browser, once installed, can then be accessed via a button in the User and System tabs of this applet settings.

Special thanks

Special thanks to Stephen Collins, the author of the placesCenter@scollins applet from which this applet is derived.

Special thanks to Timothy Feierabend for rewriting part of this applet to add a feature for showing / hiding the session, and to make this applet compatible with the test-spice script.

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