Places menu in Unity

Question

Is there a places menu in Unity, similar to the one in the old gnome interface? I really liked having such quick access to remote shares.

Answer 1

[Edit]Apparently the places menu still exists, but they've buried it pretty well!

Since I didn't want to have to kick back to the desktop to access my places menu (I use my external shares pretty often), I added a Home Icon quicklist as outlined in Which custom Unity launchers and quicklists do you use? to create, but added entries to my normal remote shares like so:

[Passport Shortcut Group]
Name=MyPassport External
Exec=nautilus smb://readyshare/mypassport/

Answer 2

There is!

Minimise all your windows so only the Desktop is showing. (For a fast way of doing this press Super+D.

Now move your mouse to the panel at the top of the screen, and click on places.

Answer 3

I've found that you can just click on the desktop, without minimising using Super+D, and when out move over the top panel Places is shown in the menu. This is quite quick and saves having to restore all your windows afterwards.

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Answer 4

Right click on the "files and folders" icon in the launcher. The content of that list though is not the same as your bookmarked folders in nautilus.

I've gotten used to just opening the "home" icon in the launcher to get the file manager and from there you'll see the bookmarks on the left side.