Maintainer: |
hanya |
Rating: |
(16 votes)
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Application: |
OpenOffice.org |
Tags: |
menu, extension |
Source code: |
https://github.com/hanya/BookmarksMenu |
Post date: |
Thursday, 15 November, 2007 - 15:22 |
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BookmarksMenu is an extension to add a menu like a favorits menu on the OpenOffice menubar. This extension is based on the idea of Malte Timmermann's Favorites Menu.
Version 1.0 works on Apache OpenOffice 3.4 or later. Requires Py-UNO installation. After the installation of the extension package through Tools - Extension Manager, restart your office. If you use quick starter, please stop it too. You can see Bookmarks menu on the main menu of the office after restarting your office. You can modify your bookmarks through Edit Bookmarks entry in it.
Version 1.0.8 or later supports LibreOffice 4.0.
Version 1.0 does not work with Unity embedded main menu on Ubuntu 12.10. For example if you use LibreOffice 3.6.2.2 bundled with Ubuntu 12.10, empty popup menu is shown for Bookmarks entry. Please use official release of LibreOffice built by TDF if you need this extension to work with your office.
Version 1.0 is differently installed from version 0.6.2.
If you have older version installed, you can migrate bookmarks of it according to Migration.
Now help file can be read on online-help or the web: Online Help.
UI languages: English, French, German and Japanese.
If you want to use this extension in your language, we have the project on Transifex. Please have a look at the page for instructions to translate.
The following description is based on version 0.6.2.
Version 0.6.2 works on - OpenOffice.org 3.3. It has UI languages: Czech, Danish, English, French, German and Japanese.
After installation of the extension, execute the macro from the Tools - Add-Ons - BookmarksMenu... entry that shows Bookmarks Menu dialog. And push the help button of the dialog to show the help file.
| Version | Operating system | Compatibility | Release date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.15 | System Independent | 3.4, 4.0, 4.1 | 06/06/2017 - 04:35 | More information | Download |
| 0.6.2 | System Independent | 2.x, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 | 17/12/2008 - 02:35 | More information | Download |
Comments
Thank you for your report. And fixed on 0.4.3.
Tested in Gnome with nautilus and in winXP with explorer. If someone use nautilus as the file manager, try this command as file manager "nautilus --no-desktop --browser" (without double quote characters).
I couldn't find xdg-open in my environment....
Suggestion: add the Bookmarks menu to the quickstarter (that way, you won't have to open a blank file, or an empty OpenOffice, before you can use it).
I've been looking for something like this. Thanks!
Thank you for your suggestion. But current quickstarter is not configurable. If the issue i86798 has a chance to fix, I may add the feature.
I have translated this extension to french. Where can I send the files ?
Hi, please send it to mail hanya[AT]openoffice.org
Sweet! Nice job on the extension. It is invaluable to me as I don't care for desktop shortcuts and as an Ubuntu user I didn't like filling up a Gnome Panel with document shortcuts. A dream come true.
Hi, Congratulations and thanks for this very useful extension.
One suggestion for improvement: It took me a while to find out how to create sub-menus. These seem to be called 'parent menu' (Bookmarks --> Edit Bookmarks --> New -> Type=ParentMenu). Perhaps the term 'sub-menu' would be more appropriate, or 'sub-menu' appended to the help file or something.
Thank you for your reply. I changed it to Sub-Menu on version 0.3.3.
Hello, I use the Extension above - is it possible not only to bookmark a document but folder too?
greetings
Hi, If you want to open a folder with your file manager, use "ShellCommand" type to make a new entry. For example:
Do not input any double quote or quote charactors in the Url or the Arguments.
If ShellCommand type selected, the extension makes a subroutine of OOo Basic to execute the command automatically and set its URL of the macro to the entry. Some application can be launch from an entry of the bookmarks menu in the same way.
Hi hanya - that's it!
thank you very much
In GNOME, you can use "xdg-open" (without quotation marks) with the ShellCommand in Bookmarks Menu to open any file or folder with whatever application is the default for the system.
For example:
Opens the Documents directory in Nautilus (or the default file manager if set to something other than Nautilus)
Opens some.pdf in Document Viewer aka Evince (or the default pdf viewer if set to something other than Evince)
Opens video.mpg in Movie Player aka Totem (or the default player for mpeg files if set to something other than Totem)
and so on.
The xdg-open command should work in the same way in KDE, XFCE, and other environments where the xdg-utils package is installed. More details here:
http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/xdg-open.html
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Ubuntu Linux (7.10)
If you click Tools>Add-ons->bookmarks menu and then Cancel right on, you''ll get an error message...
Thank you for your suggestion.
It caused by the kind of modules that installed in OpenOffice.org. And it has been fixed on 0.3.1.
I tried for the first time to update within OOo (from 0.3.0 to 0.3.1) and, even if my bookmarks are still available, I don't see them anymore when I click on "Edit Bookmarks".
Note : the cause of the problem could be that I renamed the menu... just an idea.
Even when I delete the extension, the menu is still there and works.
I download the extension again and install normally after removing the old one.
Now, when I want to edit "Edit Bookmark", there is an Runtime error basic.
> DialogLibraries.setPosSize(40,40,0,0,com.sun.star.awt.PosSize.POS)
> DialogLibraries.setPosSize(40,40,0,0,com.sun.star.awt.PosSize.POS)
This bug has fixed on 0.3.2. I'm sorry for my mistake...
Other problems you said are caused by, it I thougut.
Thank you very much !
I have a lot of files on my hardware scattered in many, many locations.
So much easier to open them now !
Suggestions for the future :
> It would be cool to have in the menu "add this file to the bookmark"
> In Edit Bookmarks, reorganize the buttons : the button "update" should be under the editing widgets. I clicked several times on OK, closing the window instead of updating anything. The GUI is not very intuitive.
> A side panel, like the Firefox one, would be very great !
Thank you for your suggestions.
> It would be cool to have in the menu "add this file to the bookmark"
This feature is added on 0.2.0.
> In Edit Boo...
The dialog of 0.1.1 is not freandly for users. Create new - update entry process is taken away and new dialog is added to edit the entry.
> A side panel, like the Firefox one, would be very great !
Current OpenOffice.org does not provide the feature of dockable window for the API and it can not be support by using only OpenOffice.org Basic.
This is a very cool extension ! :)
I have other suggestions. (But I don't know what the API allows.)
> Label and url fields shouldn't be editable, as we must use the button Edit to edit.
> The url field is too short.
> Move entries between submenus would be great.
Thank you for your additional suggestions.
> Label and url fields shouldn't be editable, as we must use the button Edit to edit.
It was fixed.
> Move entries between submenus would be great.
Only one step movement of a selected entry between current menu and the parent or submenus is supported by its contextmenu.
Thank you again :)