Can the Applications or Files and Folders buttons be moved on the Unity Launcher?

Question

Is there a way to move the Applications or Files & Folders buttons on the Unity Launcher? I can move every other button but those. I'd like to move them to the top of the bar instead of their default at the bottom of it.

Thanks

Answer 1

Yes but they need to be within their group and files&folders and applications are 1 group. So you can put files&folders above or below applications. There are a few other launchers that are added to this group like the askubuntu (askububtu.place), google books (books.place) etc.

Basically we currently have 2 groups (hold the 'super' key while reading this and look at the launchers): digits and letters. And you can change the order of the group with digits and the group with letters.

Those digits and letters are inside all the *.place files on your system.

For instance /usr/share/unity/places has 3: applications.place books.place files.place

$grep Shortcut *

applications.place:Shortcut=a
books.place:Shortcut=b
files.place:Shortcut=f

(Ofcourse changing the =a to =11 did not add applications to the other group so it will be something inside the Unity system the takes care of this...)