Home Icon Quicklist (auto-update from bookmarks)
Here is a small shell script that updates your Home-Quicklist with all your bookmarks. No manual manipulation. It reads your bookmark file and creates the menu items from it. It also adds the "Root Filemanager" menu entry.
- Copy the script listed below into an empty file and put it in your scripts-folder (we will assume that is
~/bin/ and the script name you choose is unityhome.bash).
Run the script once to add the entries:
bash ~/bin/unityhome.bash
Optionally you may have cron run the script for you every once in a while. To add it to cron, type the follwing command into a shell:
crontab -e
An editor will open. There add a line like:
@reboot /bin/bash/ $HOME/bin/unityhome.bash > /dev/null 2>&1
If you don't do this step, you'll have to run the script by hand every time you change your nautilus bookmarks if you want the quicklist updated.
Changes only take effect on your next login or after you Alt+F2
unity --replace
So do that. Note: Don't run unity --replace in a terminal. If you close that terminal, it will kill unity with it.
Enjoy and have a look at the similar script for gnome-terminal that parses your ssh bookmarks (in ~/.ssh/config).
Script:
Here is the script:
#!/bin/bash
# tabsize: 4, encoding: utf8
#
# © 2011 con-f-use@gmx.net. Use permitted under MIT license:
# http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
#
# CONTRIBUTORS: Chris Druif <cyber.druif@gmail.com>
# Scott Severance <http://www.scottseverance.us/>
# jacopoL <jacopo.jl@gmail.com>
#
# This script updates the unity quicklist menu for nautilus to contain the user
# bookmarks. The updates will have efect after unity is restarted (either on
# the next login or by invoking 'unity --replace').
# location of template and unity bar launchers
nautempl="/usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop"
target="$HOME/.local/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop"
bookmarks="$HOME/.gtk-bookmarks"
# backup if file already exists
if [ -e "$target" ]; then
echo "Creating backup of: $target."
mv -n "$target" "$target.bak"
fi
# copy template
cp "$nautempl" "$target"
if ! grep -q 'OnlyShowIn=.*Unity' "$target"; then # add only if not already present
sed -i "s/\(OnlyShowIn=.*\)/\1Unity;/" "$target"
fi
# due to a bug in Unity (Ubuntu 11.10+) we will have to completely remove the OnlyShowIn line:
# https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/842257/comments/6
sed -i '/^OnlyShowIn=/d' "$target"
if ! grep -q 'X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=' "$target"; then # add only if not already present
echo -e "\nX-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=\n" >> "$target"
else
echo >> "$target"
fi
bmcount=0
while read bmline; do
bmcount=$(($bmcount+1)) # number of current bookmark
bmname=${bmline#*\ } # name of the bookmark
bmpath=${bmline%%\ *} # path the bookmark leads to
# deal with bookmarks that have no name
if [ "$bmname" = "$bmpath" ]; then
bmname=${bmpath##*/}
fi
# fix spaces in names and paths
bmname="$(echo "$bmname" | sed 's/%20/ /g')"
bmpath="$(echo "$bmpath" | sed 's/%20/ /g')"
# fix accents in names and paths (for french users)
bmname="$(echo "$bmname" | python -c 'import sys,urllib;sys.stdout.write(urllib.unquote(sys.stdin.read()))')"
bmpath="$(echo "$bmpath" | python -c 'import sys,urllib;sys.stdout.write(urllib.unquote(sys.stdin.read()))')"
# extend shortcut list with current bookmark, prepending a ; if needed
sed -i "s/\(X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=\(.*;$\|$\)\)/\1Scg${bmcount};/
t
s/\(X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=.*\)/\1;Scg${bmcount};/" "$target"
# write bookmark information
cat - >> "$target" <<EOF
[Scg$bmcount Shortcut Group]
Name=$bmname
Exec=nautilus "$bmpath"
TargetEnvironment=Unity
EOF
done < "$bookmarks"
# Add a root file manager entry
sed -i "s/\(X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=.*\)/\1RootFM;/" "$target"
cat - >> "$target" <<EOF
[RootFM Shortcut Group]
Name=Root
Exec=gksudo nautilus
TargetEnvironment=Unity
EOF
exit 0
Improvement: Do not duplicate "Home folder" and "username"
If you don't want to have two items targeting your Home folder ("Home Folder" at the bottom of the quicklist and the clickable username), you can replace the following code:
# write bookmark information
cat - >> "$target" <<EOF
[Scg$bmcount Shortcut Group]
Name=$bmname
Exec=nautilus "$bmpath"
TargetEnvironment=Unity
EOF
done < "$bookmarks"
by the following code:
# write bookmark information
if [ "file://$HOME" != "$bmpath" ]; then
cat - >> "$target" <<EOF
[Scg$bmcount Shortcut Group]
Name=$bmname
Exec=nautilus "$bmpath"
TargetEnvironment=Unity
EOF
fi
done < "$bookmarks"
