GtkPlacesSidebar

GtkPlacesSidebar — Sidebar that displays frequently-used places in the file system

Functions

Types and Values

Includes

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

Description

GtkPlacesSidebar is a widget that displays a list of frequently-used places in the file system: the user’s home directory, the user’s bookmarks, and volumes and drives. This widget is used as a sidebar in GtkFileChooser and may be used by file managers and similar programs.

The places sidebar displays drives and volumes, and will automatically mount or unmount them when the user selects them.

Applications can hook to various signals in the places sidebar to customize its behavior. For example, they can add extra commands to the context menu of the sidebar.

While bookmarks are completely in control of the user, the places sidebar also allows individual applications to provide extra shortcut folders that are unique to each application. For example, a Paint program may want to add a shortcut for a Clipart folder. You can do this with gtk_places_sidebar_add_shortcut().

To make use of the places sidebar, an application at least needs to connect to the “open-location” signal. This is emitted when the user selects in the sidebar a location to open. The application should also call gtk_places_sidebar_set_location() when it changes the currently-viewed location.

CSS nodes

GtkPlacesSidebar uses a single CSS node with name placessidebar and style class .sidebar.

Among the children of the places sidebar, the following style classes can be used:

  • .sidebar-new-bookmark-row for the 'Add new bookmark' row

  • .sidebar-placeholder-row for a row that is a placeholder

  • .has-open-popup when a popup is open for a row

Functions

gtk_places_sidebar_new ()

GtkWidget *
gtk_places_sidebar_new (void);

Creates a new GtkPlacesSidebar widget.

The application should connect to at least the “open-location” signal to be notified when the user makes a selection in the sidebar.

Returns

a newly created GtkPlacesSidebar

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_set_open_flags ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_set_open_flags (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                   GtkPlacesOpenFlags flags);

Sets the way in which the calling application can open new locations from the places sidebar. For example, some applications only open locations “directly” into their main view, while others may support opening locations in a new notebook tab or a new window.

This function is used to tell the places sidebar about the ways in which the application can open new locations, so that the sidebar can display (or not) the “Open in new tab” and “Open in new window” menu items as appropriate.

When the “open-location” signal is emitted, its flags argument will be set to one of the flags that was passed in gtk_places_sidebar_set_open_flags().

Passing 0 for flags will cause GTK_PLACES_OPEN_NORMAL to always be sent to callbacks for the “open-location” signal.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

flags

Bitmask of modes in which the calling application can open locations

 

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_get_open_flags ()

GtkPlacesOpenFlags
gtk_places_sidebar_get_open_flags (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar);

Gets the open flags.

Parameters

sidebar

a GtkPlacesSidebar

 

Returns

the GtkPlacesOpenFlags of sidebar

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_set_location ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_set_location (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                 GFile *location);

Sets the location that is being shown in the widgets surrounding the sidebar , for example, in a folder view in a file manager. In turn, the sidebar will highlight that location if it is being shown in the list of places, or it will unhighlight everything if the location is not among the places in the list.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

location

location to select, or NULL for no current path.

[allow-none]

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_get_location ()

GFile *
gtk_places_sidebar_get_location (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar);

Gets the currently-selected location in the sidebar . This can be NULL when nothing is selected, for example, when gtk_places_sidebar_set_location() has been called with a location that is not among the sidebar’s list of places to show.

You can use this function to get the selection in the sidebar . Also, if you connect to the “populate-popup” signal, you can use this function to get the location that is being referred to during the callbacks for your menu items.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

Returns

a GFile with the selected location, or NULL if nothing is visually selected.

[nullable][transfer full]

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_recent ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_recent (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                    gboolean show_recent);

Sets whether the sidebar should show an item for recent files. The default value for this option is determined by the desktop environment, but this function can be used to override it on a per-application basis.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

show_recent

whether to show an item for recent files

 

Since: 3.18


gtk_places_sidebar_get_show_recent ()

gboolean
gtk_places_sidebar_get_show_recent (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar);

Returns the value previously set with gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_recent()

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

Returns

TRUE if the sidebar will display a builtin shortcut for recent files

Since: 3.18


gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_desktop ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_desktop (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                     gboolean show_desktop);

Sets whether the sidebar should show an item for the Desktop folder. The default value for this option is determined by the desktop environment and the user’s configuration, but this function can be used to override it on a per-application basis.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

show_desktop

whether to show an item for the Desktop folder

 

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_get_show_desktop ()

gboolean
gtk_places_sidebar_get_show_desktop (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar);

Returns the value previously set with gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_desktop()

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

Returns

TRUE if the sidebar will display a builtin shortcut to the desktop folder.

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_add_shortcut ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_add_shortcut (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                 GFile *location);

Applications may want to present some folders in the places sidebar if they could be immediately useful to users. For example, a drawing program could add a “/usr/share/clipart” location when the sidebar is being used in an “Insert Clipart” dialog box.

This function adds the specified location to a special place for immutable shortcuts. The shortcuts are application-specific; they are not shared across applications, and they are not persistent. If this function is called multiple times with different locations, then they are added to the sidebar’s list in the same order as the function is called.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

location

location to add as an application-specific shortcut

 

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_remove_shortcut ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_remove_shortcut (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                    GFile *location);

Removes an application-specific shortcut that has been previously been inserted with gtk_places_sidebar_add_shortcut(). If the location is not a shortcut in the sidebar, then nothing is done.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

location

location to remove

 

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_list_shortcuts ()

GSList *
gtk_places_sidebar_list_shortcuts (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar);

Gets the list of shortcuts.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

Returns

A GSList of GFile of the locations that have been added as application-specific shortcuts with gtk_places_sidebar_add_shortcut(). To free this list, you can use

1
g_slist_free_full (list, (GDestroyNotify) g_object_unref);

.

[element-type GFile][transfer full]

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_get_nth_bookmark ()

GFile *
gtk_places_sidebar_get_nth_bookmark (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                     gint n);

This function queries the bookmarks added by the user to the places sidebar, and returns one of them. This function is used by GtkFileChooser to implement the “Alt-1”, “Alt-2”, etc. shortcuts, which activate the cooresponding bookmark.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

n

index of the bookmark to query

 

Returns

The bookmark specified by the index n , or NULL if no such index exist. Note that the indices start at 0, even though the file chooser starts them with the keyboard shortcut "Alt-1".

[nullable][transfer full]

Since: 3.10


gtk_places_sidebar_get_local_only ()

gboolean
gtk_places_sidebar_get_local_only (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar);

Returns the value previously set with gtk_places_sidebar_set_local_only().

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

Returns

TRUE if the sidebar will only show local files.

Since: 3.12


gtk_places_sidebar_set_local_only ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_set_local_only (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                   gboolean local_only);

Sets whether the sidebar should only show local files.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

local_only

whether to show only local files

 

Since: 3.12


gtk_places_sidebar_get_show_enter_location ()

gboolean
gtk_places_sidebar_get_show_enter_location
                               (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar);

Returns the value previously set with gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_enter_location()

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

Returns

TRUE if the sidebar will display an “Enter Location” item.

Since: 3.14


gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_enter_location ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_enter_location
                               (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                gboolean show_enter_location);

Sets whether the sidebar should show an item for entering a location; this is off by default. An application may want to turn this on if manually entering URLs is an expected user action.

If you enable this, you should connect to the “show-enter-location” signal.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

show_enter_location

whether to show an item to enter a location

 

Since: 3.14


gtk_places_sidebar_get_show_trash ()

gboolean
gtk_places_sidebar_get_show_trash (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar);

Returns the value previously set with gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_trash()

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

Returns

TRUE if the sidebar will display a “Trash” item.

Since: 3.18


gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_trash ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_trash (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                   gboolean show_trash);

Sets whether the sidebar should show an item for the Trash location.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

show_trash

whether to show an item for the Trash location

 

Since: 3.18


gtk_places_sidebar_get_show_other_locations ()

gboolean
gtk_places_sidebar_get_show_other_locations
                               (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar);

Returns the value previously set with gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_other_locations()

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

Returns

TRUE if the sidebar will display an “Other Locations” item.

Since: 3.18


gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_other_locations ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_set_show_other_locations
                               (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                gboolean show_other_locations);

Sets whether the sidebar should show an item for the application to show an Other Locations view; this is off by default. When set to TRUE, persistent devices such as hard drives are hidden, otherwise they are shown in the sidebar. An application may want to turn this on if it implements a way for the user to see and interact with drives and network servers directly.

If you enable this, you should connect to the “show-other-locations-with-flags” signal.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar

 

show_other_locations

whether to show an item for the Other Locations view

 

Since: 3.18


gtk_places_sidebar_set_drop_targets_visible ()

void
gtk_places_sidebar_set_drop_targets_visible
                               (GtkPlacesSidebar *sidebar,
                                gboolean visible,
                                GdkDragContext *context);

Make the GtkPlacesSidebar show drop targets, so it can show the available drop targets and a "new bookmark" row. This improves the Drag-and-Drop experience of the user and allows applications to show all available drop targets at once.

This needs to be called when the application is aware of an ongoing drag that might target the sidebar. The drop-targets-visible state will be unset automatically if the drag finishes in the GtkPlacesSidebar. You only need to unset the state when the drag ends on some other widget on your application.

Parameters

sidebar

a places sidebar.

 

visible

whether to show the valid targets or not.

 

context

drag context used to ask the source about the action that wants to perform, so hints are more accurate.

 

Since: 3.18

Types and Values

GtkPlacesSidebar

typedef struct _GtkPlacesSidebar GtkPlacesSidebar;

enum GtkPlacesOpenFlags

These flags serve two purposes. First, the application can call gtk_places_sidebar_set_open_flags() using these flags as a bitmask. This tells the sidebar that the application is able to open folders selected from the sidebar in various ways, for example, in new tabs or in new windows in addition to the normal mode.

Second, when one of these values gets passed back to the application in the “open-location” signal, it means that the application should open the selected location in the normal way, in a new tab, or in a new window. The sidebar takes care of determining the desired way to open the location, based on the modifier keys that the user is pressing at the time the selection is made.

If the application never calls gtk_places_sidebar_set_open_flags(), then the sidebar will only use GTK_PLACES_OPEN_NORMAL in the “open-location” signal. This is the default mode of operation.

Members

GTK_PLACES_OPEN_NORMAL

This is the default mode that GtkPlacesSidebar uses if no other flags are specified. It indicates that the calling application should open the selected location in the normal way, for example, in the folder view beside the sidebar.

 

GTK_PLACES_OPEN_NEW_TAB

When passed to gtk_places_sidebar_set_open_flags(), this indicates that the application can open folders selected from the sidebar in new tabs. This value will be passed to the “open-location” signal when the user selects that a location be opened in a new tab instead of in the standard fashion.

 

GTK_PLACES_OPEN_NEW_WINDOW

Similar to GTK_PLACES_OPEN_NEW_TAB , but indicates that the application can open folders in new windows.

 

See Also

GtkFileChooser