Open a directory of your choice in a dropdown menu, offering a compact view and/or a faster navigation through the file tree.
This is a re-creation of a built-in feature in XFCE.
This is the work-in-progress repo of this applet's author. It is separate from the version found in the official Cinnamon Spices repo.
I like to keep this repo as a more detailed history of the early dev process, and in case I'm developing something new, this is where I'll commit the ongoing work until it's done.
But nowadays, it's much more likely that this repo is out of date with respect to Cinnamon Spices, which includes a number of awesome community contributions that I manually bring over here every once in a while. So, again, go check out this applet on the official Linux Mint repo!
- View the selected directory as a compact list
- Arbitrarily deep navigation through subdirectories
- Fast navigation: just hover on a directory to open it
- Open any file by clicking on it
- "Open in Terminal" button for directories
- Configurable settings for sorting, handling hidden files, limiting menu width, and customization
Download or clone this repo, then put the directory-menu@torchipeppo directory (contained in the files directory) into ~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/
Developed, tested and extensively used by the author on Cinnamon 5.0.7 and Cinnamon 6.0.
Also tested successfully on Cinnamon 5.2.
Likely to work in near-future versions. May also work in some previous versions, but it's untested there, so there's no guarantee.