The right sidebar should be based on Gnome's places or be user customizable

[Stéphane Graber]

The items in the right sidebar such as "Home" and "Network" shouldn't be hardcoded.
Those should be taken from Gnome places and gtk "bookmarks" (~/.gtk-bookmarks) so the user could add for example his "Documents" directory to the bar and remove the "Network" item if he has no use for it.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

Yep, if the launcher replaces the Ubuntu Menu, it needs to deal with the Places section too.

[D B (eburner)]

It should at least have DESKTOP!!

I find it hard to find firefox downloads or anything else that defaults to the Desktop. We need an easy way to view those icons and I think a spot on the right looks perfect.

While I plea for the Desktop as a minimum, the original hope to get all the gnome bookmarks would be great too!

[Mike (mike82)]

I have an experimental branch that adds functionality similar to the Places part of the Ubuntu menu. The relevant part of the changelog:

- Show a link to the Desktop, just like the Gnome "places" menu does
- Show links to all bookmarked folders (Documents, Pictures, etc),
  again like the Gnome menu (sourced from ~/.gtk-bookmarks)
- Remove the "Network" icon to save some space, however allow it to be
  displayed by including it as a bookmarked folder
- Move the "remove favorite" trash icon to bottom of the sidebar, where
  it seems more natural

There is a full changelog on the bzr branch page:
https://code.launchpad.net/~mike82/netbook-remix-launcher/work

You can install the package by adding my PPA to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mike82/ubuntu hardy main

The package is of course configured so that the next official ume-launcher release will supersede it.

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

Bookmarks support merged from Mikes branch (thanks!).

Regarding Desktop access, does nautilus's desktop-is-home dir work for you? (its a gconf setting).

[antistress (antistress)]

related bug for comment 2 : Bug 240258

related bug for the bug report : Bug 267448