Two "Places" applets for the Unity graphical environment

Applets for Unity Places

When Canonical moved to Unity, it included in its operating system a very different graphical environment from the GNOME that we had used since the beginning of its history. The new graphical environment switched from the top and bottom panels to using a launcher on the left. Among what was eliminated with the arrival of Unity is an option that was called Places, from where we could access, among other things, any folder in our personal directory.

Personally, I have become used to using many operating systems, so I do not miss the option very much on Linux, Mac or Windows, but it is understandable that some users prefer to have the option in sight. If this is your case, in this post we will talk about Both of you applets that will put the Places option in the top bar from your Unity desktop.

Applets to put Places in the top bar of Unity

Place Files

Places & Files

Un applet very minimalist is Place Files. It has been created by Jacob Vlijm and will show us your favorite folders and places, as well as a list of the most recently used files. By default, this applet shows the folders of our personal directory or / Home and the last 10 files opened or edited.

We can install Places Files by opening a terminal and typing the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vlijm/placesfiles && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install placesfiles

File Indicator

File Indicator

If what we want is one more point than what the applet above, it is worth trying Files-Indicator, applet of Places of Serg Kolo. Accessing it from the top bar of Unity we can see recent files, pinned files and folders that we save as favorites. In addition to folders, we can also anchor files. On the other hand, we can also launch .desktop files, which will help us to avoid having our desktop or the launcher full of these types of files.

To install Files-Indicator, we open a terminal and type the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:1047481448-2/sergkolo && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install files-indicator

Do you miss the GNOME / MATE Places option? Which of the above options do you like the most?

Via: omgubuntu.co.uk.


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  1.   Pierre said

    Files-Indicators just GREAT I really like Pin Directory.
    Only problem, it is not in Spanish.

  2.   Mr. Paquito said

    Right-clicking on the Nautilus launcher seems more than enough to me, which shows the main system folders, plus all of our bookmarks (from Nautilus, of course).

    From my point of view nothing more is necessary.