Since almost all of recommended packages in my original post have been tackled already thanks to Nekhelesh Ramananthan and David Baucum, here’s a new list for those of you who are still itching to knock a few out.
This list contains some of the most popular downloads from the Ubuntu Software Center that don’t have a Quicklist in Precise. Not all of them will have useful command line options to make shortcuts for, so if you run across one of those just mention it in the comments and I’ll take it off the list.
Available
- audacity
- filezilla
- compizconfig-settings-manager
- cheese
- adobe-flashplugin
- libreoffice-writer
- emesene
- smplayer
- audacious
- wesnoth-1.8
- blender
- stellarium
- supertuxkart
- calibre
- virtualbox-ose
Done
Not Available
firefoxdoesn’t properly handle command line optionsvlcdoesn’t support command line optionsskypedoes not support command line optionsgpartedonly supports 1 commandline option which is uselessgtk-recordmydesktopdoes not support command line optionsopenshotonly supports 1 commandline option which is uselesseclipsedoes not support command line optionsubuntuone-control-panelneeds dynamic quicklist (required coding)
Jorge Castro has also linked to an AskUbuntu page that lists many pre-made Quicklists for various apps that just need to be made in a bzr branch and turned into a merge proposal, which is another great and simple way to contribute to Ubuntu.
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Alrite I have started work on the following quicklists
- Ubuntuone Control Panel
- Eclipse
- gtk-recordmydesktop
- Firefox
For now
When I run –help on eclipse, it just launches. How are you pulling it off?
Not all applications use the –help flag. Another option is to run “man <program>” for documentation about it’s options.
Quick update on Firefox qliikucst. I proposed the following qliikucsts for firefox,- Open Firefox in Safe mode- Switch between Private/Normal modeHowever, I talked to chris Coulson regarding this, and he had some well reasoned arguments to not implement since they do not work in all case scenarios. For instance, Switch between Private/Normal Mode does not make sense when firefox isn’t open.Hence this qliikucst would not accepted and can be marked as Not available .
There isn’t really anything useful to put in a quicklist for cheese or rhythmbox. Also, is it even possible to make one for eclipse (java)?
Does Rhythmbox not have a command line option for controlling playback of a running instance? Look at that AskUbuntu link I posted, someone there made a Quicklist for it already.
Not that I can find. Would it work if I just used the commands from the AskUbuntu link?
Not much of any use in stellarium either. The ubuntuone-control-panel and wesnoth-1.8 don’t have .desktop files (that I could find).
Well, wesnoth has one, but it didn’t allow me to open it. It is “untrusted.”
Try wesnoth-1.8-core for the package name, and ubuntuone-control-panel-gtk
k, thanks
Great work guys, that’s what we need.
It’s about time
Submitted the merger for Rhythmbox’s quicklists.
Trenton, I have completed the quicklist on ubuntuone control panel…so pls do not work on it.
Yeah, I noticed that you had it on your list so I moved on. I don’t really know enough to do most of these. :/
Seriously ? No one mentioned Google Chrome – Please stop being so “windows” and tying Ubuntu to Firefox – Provide options – Provide Google Chrome – Why is Google Chrome on Ubuntu so shabby ?
Sorry, Chome wasn’t on my list of apps. Chromium was, but it already has Quicklists.
Chrome already has static quicklists, it needs generated ones for the bookmarks though like it has on Windows, I suspect Chromium is the same way.
Empathy needs a quicklist too!
Empathy has already been worked on: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/937998
Status
Vlc: Cannot be done since terminal commands open a new vlc window for every command instead of applying it to the current existing window.
Skype: Does not support command line options
gtk-record…: gtk-recordmydesktop itself does not support command line option since it basically just calls recordmydesktop. recordmydesktop does not have any gui, so users will not be able to stop it.
gparted: Only supports 1 commandline option which is useless.
openshot: Only supports 1 commandline option which is useless.
Remmina: DONE – Requesting merge
Firefox: DONE Quicklist Complete- Unable to branch firefox. When I use the branch command, it starts downloading the source package. However it keeps on downloading….the size is around 2300 MB and still keeps downloading…something definitely wrong!
Please update the blog.
Ubuntu-control-Panel: The source package itself does not contain any .desktop files. Also ubuntu-control-panel-gtk is not a branch. However I noticed that ubuntuone-installer.desktop exists in /usr/share/applications. But I am not sure which package it is part of.
ubuntuone-installer.desktop comes from the package “ubuntuone-installer”
ok. So I branched ubuntuone-installer, modified the desktop file in it. And then pushed it. I see the page using bzr lp-open. However, I am not present with the option “Propose for merging”. I dont know why.
What was the path you pushed to?
I pushed it to lp:~nik90/ubuntu/precise/ubuntuone/Add_Quicklist
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Quick update on Firefox quicklist. I proposed the following quicklists for firefox,
- Open Firefox in Safe mode
- Switch between Private/Normal mode
However, I talked to chris Coulson regarding this, and he had some well reasoned arguments to not implement since they do not work in all case scenarios. For instance, Switch between Private/Normal Mode does not make sense when firefox isn’t open.
Hence this quicklist would not accepted and can be marked as “Not available”.
That’s too bad, it would have been a really nice feature to have. Thanks for taking the time to work on it anyway.
I’ll do ccsm (compizconfig-settings-manager). seems that no one else is doing it.
Anyone iseas on that? I just figured out
ccsm --plugin=unityshellwhich directly goes to unity settings.I think that would be a safe and useful option. We can’t guarantee that other plugins will be there, but we can be pretty confident that unityshell will.
Eclipse – Does not have any useful gui commands.
I’ll try to figure out Audacious and Audacity tomorrow.
Oh also, regarding the ubuntu one quicklist, the developer stated that it is better to use dynamic quicklist than static ones. Hence that can also be crossed of the list.
Some time ago I made a couple of quicklists for Audacious: one for controlling playback, playlist and toggling main window visibility and one for starting and stopping the player in headless mode.
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Great work, all of you!! This is what I like so much about the Ubuntu Community, you can see the human values on it
You deserve my respect
i’d love a dynamic quicklist for gnome-terminal that allowed choosing from open terminal windows by their title (fred@host1, fred@host5, etc). in fact, i hide unity launcher and use docky for this feature alone, otherwise i would use the unity launcher.
I think someone in the community was trying to do this for all applications, provide a list of open windows in the quicklist. I’m not sure how far that’s gotten though.
I just uploaded a quicklist for smplayer.
Hi,
I made a proposal on Ayatana list about an “About this computer” in the Dash. A simpler solution was proposed : add that entry in the BFB’s quicklist.
see a simulation : about_menu
As I couldn’t find the way to add an entry in for the BFB and to add a separator, I tested on the nautilus quicklist :
Name=About this computer
Exec=gnome-control-center info # or ‘gnome-system-monitor -s’
and it’s interesting !
Would it be possible to add this entry in the BFB’s quicklist ?
Thanks
Michel
Since the BFB doesn’t have a .desktop file, the only way to add it would be through the code for Unity itself.