Allow user to customize side pane

MartinThoma commented 8 years ago

Currently, Caja looks like this for me:

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As I've noted, I would like to be able to customize the Side pane. Is this possible?

(P.S.: Other people seem to have the same issue - http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=137045&p=731132)

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raveit65 commented 8 years ago

All this depends on personal point of view, for example i don't need bookmarks, so why should they on top?. And changing defaults will always cause an issue by another user. I agree that an option to make it variable is nice, but i don't think that is easy.

MartinThoma commented 8 years ago

Just to make sure: I'm not asking for a GUI way to customize this. I'm asking for a configuration file. Something like a file ~/.caja-places:

- {title: "Bookmarks",
   type: "org.mate-desktop.caja.sidepanepane.bookmarks"}
- {title: "Network",
   type: "org.mate-desktop.caja.sidepanepane.network"}

So a list of elements, where title is what is currently shown in bold and type is a list of identifiers known by caja. The file format in this example is YAML. I don't know if caja has any other configuration files. In case it has, one should stick with one configuration file format, of course. And I also don't really care about which format to take, as long as it is a standard / easy to understand / well documented format.

I don't care much about the default. I just don't want to reach where to adjust this in the MATE source and compile it myself.

colibris79 commented 8 years ago

I agree that this would be a nice feature. I also like bookmarks on top as they are the most important, but that, obviously depends on personal preferences. Would be great to be able to configure it according to whatever each person wants.

linuxloot-de commented 7 years ago

Me too. Would be very nice.

fbarriga commented 7 years ago

related with #160

ghost commented 7 years ago

Same here. 2 reasons why the current layout is counter intuitive to me:

Why is Filesystem stuck between Desktop and Documents? I mean, first bookmark is Home, alright. Then Desktop, alright, since it's the first folder in Home. Logically, Documents and so on should follow. Why is Filesystem there? I want to move it above the Trash.
The actual folders are ranked by name in the OS's language (in my case, french), whereas the bookmarks are ranked based on the system name (that is, in english) of the folder. Ex. my "Images" folder is referred to "PICTURES" in the system. That means, if you're language is not english and/or if you want to rename your default folders and bookmarks, the order in the left pane will be different than the one in the Home folder. Kind of messy.

A config file where the order can be customized would be veeeeery welcome! :)

raveit65 commented 7 years ago

If you split up the file-sytem in different partitions it makes sense to have it under home for me ;-) I use about 10 partitions in my system, so i like this layout. But i agree that it should be configurable.

ghost commented 7 years ago

Of course, I'm not saying the current layout makes absolutely no sense. It doesn't to me, that's all. Different people, different needs, that's why it should be configurable. And the translation issue probably does affect a few million people...

ghost commented 7 years ago

How about I just remove the defaults for Documents etc. by editing user-dirs.dirs, create my own bookmarks for those folders (solves bullet point 2 and pretty much bullet point 1 as well) and stop bitching? :)

shirishag75 commented 6 years ago

I am running mate 1.20.0 and have no idea where caja puts it bookmarks. The bookmarks feature seems to be broken and is also not documented in caja help . The only sort of uglyish workaround I was able to figure out is install nautilus and bookmark it in the nautilus side-pane and caja would take the bookmarks from there. Although again where is all this data put is not known. I did cycle through all . directories but wasn't able to get the required info.

raveit65 commented 6 years ago

You can create bookmarks with the bookmark menu. Bookmarks are stored here ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks No need to install nautilus....

shirishag75 commented 6 years ago

@raveit65 that should have been documented and I did try to place the bookmarks using mouse but was unable to .

Also how that should be isn't given. For e.g. -

~/.config/gtk-3.0$ cat bookmarks 
file:///home/shirish/Video-songs/english-songs
file:///home/shirish/Video-songs/hindi-songs
file:///home/shirish/Video-songs
file:///home/shirish/Videos

This is so others so also at least have a workaround, although the best as shared by others would be the ability to have the top spot.

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