Add defined timers to a Unity quicklist

[ottadini]

Once locked to the Unity whatever-bar on the left of the screen, a right-click of an application's icon brings up its quicklist. It would be great if the pre-defined timers for this app appeared in a quicklist. I believe this requires the app to accept command-line options on startup, and these are then added to the .desktop file.

By way of reference, Nautilus has a 'dynamic Unity quicklist' for its bookmarks, as shown here: http://iloveubuntu.net/nautilus-received-dynamic-unity-quicklist-ubuntu-1204-lts

[Pavel Rojtberg (rojtberg)]

unfortunately this feature is not easy to implement because Unity does not support this kind of behaviour. While we can use dynamic quicklists, they wont help when the app is closed. This is actually where this feature is needed.

We can neither copy the behaviour of nautilus, as it depends on the app always running headless. Try pressing "Alt+F2" and type "nautilus -q" and the nautilus quicklist is gone as well.

If Unity should support presistant dynamic lists at some point, we can of course revise this report.

[ottadini (ben-harrison)]

Does the app accept command-line arguments, in particular the name or label of a defined timer?

[Pavel Rojtberg (rojtberg)]

not yet. but this would be easy enough to add. Do you want to manually create a static quicklist?

[ottadini (ben-harrison)]

Yes, it would be very helpful. For anyone else interested in this, a quicklist is created by adding some sections to the .desktop file for the app, with an Exec line specifying the command line to be issued.