In Gnome 2, I used to be able to drag a particular document, for example, my_to_do_list.txt to the panel. It was quick access to my daily to do list, which opened up in Gedit.
This is the same case for when I want to add bash scripts to the unity launcher, but they opened up either in a terminal or simply loaded.
Now things seem a little harder with adding document short cuts to the unity panel launcher.
I've seen howtos for this, however, when I right click on my desktop, there is no option to create launcher. Only to create a new folder, or a new empty file.
Are there any really quick ways to make document shortcuts in the unity launcher?
Will Ubuntu be bringing in a simpler method to make document short cuts?
Best Answer
You can manually add your favourite files in the Quicklist of a Launcher-icon so that it looks like in this screenshot for LibreOffice Writer:
I describe the way for Precise Pangolin using Ubuntu Tweak (Version 0.7.0) - using MyUnity is similar:
Open Ubuntu Tweak > QuickLists Editor > click on LibreOffice-Writer on the left side > click on the little Plus-symbol > Enter the Name of the file (it's the name that will be shown in the Quicklist) > In the Command-field enter:
libreoffice --writer /Path/to/file/MyFavouriteText.odt
(e.g.libreoffice --writer ~/Documents/MyFavouriteText.odt
orlibreoffice --writer "~/Documents/My Favourite Text.odt"
) > Press Save. Repeat this procedure to add further odt-files to the quicklist.Note: I had to login again to make the behaviour of starting a favourite file from the Quicklist work properly.
Concerning LibreOffice Calc the command would be:
Concerning Gedit the command would be:
This solution also works when - for privacy reasons - someone has Zeitgeist totally disabled or just textfiles and/or spreadsheets excluded from activity-logging. Without Zeitgeist enabled, the Dash will show no Recently Used Files.