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Rich
Asked: 2011-05-05 03:08:55 +0800 CST

Drawer or other organisation for hundreds of scripts in Unity Launcher

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I have a large number of .sh scripts for opening ssh connections to various remote machines. These .sh scripts are grouped by staging/test/production/etc

In Gnome I had a series of entries in the Places menu, one for each type of system:

Places
|
+ Staging
|       +Machine 1
|       +Machine 2
|       +Machine 3
+Test
|       +Machine 4
|       +Machine 5

What are my options for having this kind of layout in the Unity launcher? I suppose I'm really looking for a drawer or similar that I can mouse over to find the correct script.

If I had only a few scripts I could just pin them to the launcher one by one, but I've got about 200!

Perhaps there is a Lens for doing this?

unity

3 Answers

  1. You could use the ssh launcher to have a quicklist with all your machines. See What Custom Launchers and Unity Quicklists are available? .

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  2. Try Drawers for an easy (drag-n-drop) way to create custom launchers. It's an app I wrote to bundle together different launchers or shortcuts for files, weblinks, etc. It's easy to edit contents names and execution lines once they're added to the drawer (right-click items and choose Edit Properties).

    Here's a video I recently created to show its usage.

    Here's what it looks like when you open a drawer:

    enter image description here

    Any items you add to the drawer will be available also through Quicklists (right-clicking the launcher) so opening a drawer isn't even necessary.

    I will be releasing a new version shortly (13.1.1) that has a number of improvements including launching applications in terminals.

    To install add the repository:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ian-berke/ppa-drawers
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install drawers
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  3. And if you really don't want to move away from the old menu you were once used to, you could simply use the "Classic Menu Indicator" (For Ubuntu 12.04/11.10/11.04). I found instructions on how to install it here.

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