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All-in-one Places extension for Gnome Shell

A Gnome Shell extension based on the Gnome Classic Places Menu with a few extra features and configuration options to change the look and feel of the extension.

Features:

  • Easy customization.
  • Show or hide the sections that better fits your needs.
  • Choose between normal or drop down menus to save vertical screen space.
  • Trash menu item with "empty trash" option.
  • Devices menu items with "eject/unmount" option.
  • Extra configuration options.

Installation:

The easy way:

The other way:

  • Download the latest version from the project's download page.
  • Extract the zip file contents to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/all-in-one-places@jofer/.
  • You may need to activate the extension using the Gnome Tweak Tool and restart Gnome Shell.

Configuration:

The easy way, version 1.3 and newer:

Press ALT+F2 or open a console and, you may want to copy/paste this one, run:

python ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/all-in-one-places@jofer/settings.py

The other way:

  • Open and edit the file config.json located on the installation directory at: ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/all-in-one-places@jofer.
  • Change configuration values with true or false to get the desired configuration.
  • Do not remove any of the configuration options. Just change their value according to your preferences.
  • The content of this file must be a valid JSON document.

View all configuration options

Updates:

Note that when updgrading to a new version of this extension the configuration options will be reseted to the default ones. If you are using custom configuration options you must reconfigure the extension again after the installing the new version.

Changelog:

1.3 released on 28 May 2012

  • Added settings applicaton for easy customization.

1.2.1 released on 23 May 2012

  • Better support for Gnome Shell 3.2 and 3.4.
  • Bug fixes for Gnome Shell 3.4.

1.2 released on 20 May 2012

  • Now works on Gnome Shell 3.2 and 3.4.
  • Added File System menu item.
  • Configuration options moved to external configuration file.
  • Changed configuration options to JSON format.

1.1 released on 09 May 2012

  • Fixed desktop location menu item.
  • Added option to show the menu on the left panel.
  • Moved icon size and maximum recent documents to the options section.
  • Some code cleaning and optimization.

1.0 released on 07 May 2012

  • Initial version.

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