Get A Classic Style Menu In Unity With The Latest Drawers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY4R1XyNBmoM-FSQ_6YSEIWfjiow98Tl2aFlhRciGw0XKTN6aBZCAg0wFURGRACy2nfXj78b_fK9DFjykAQVSNTI_qoJCNInwSICC9UHGW6P7Gf_a3exa_uk6Wh5MnJyyTxnomorN65vaT/s1600/drawers-apps_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="AppMenu Drawers"><img alt="drawers stacks unity" border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY4R1XyNBmoM-FSQ_6YSEIWfjiow98Tl2aFlhRciGw0XKTN6aBZCAg0wFURGRACy2nfXj78b_fK9DFjykAQVSNTI_qoJCNInwSICC9UHGW6P7Gf_a3exa_uk6Wh5MnJyyTxnomorN65vaT/s320/drawers-apps_1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Drawers, an application that lets you create drawers ("stacks") on the Unity Launcher for quick access (or just to unclutter / better organize the Unity Launcher) to various app shortcuts, files, links and so on, has been updated today with a much requested feature: <b>AppMenu Drawers</b>.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>AppMenu Drawers is a new type of drawer which tries to imitate the old GNOME2-style menu</b>, displaying applications grouped by category. These types of drawers can be created for any level of menu hierarchy and the subcategories can easily be accessed via quicklists:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZUAGTgID2Pdmet1uhm77gPz6Y1ZDgjujm6gwyiGZi8EygaHtF_ty917MTFgShXWsV_WI49xK-BdQixPsihtiLUDA0wqEbED2_lx_MY7An6coiv0sNl1Ex7Xs1pIVZuAlMOXXO3W5LNQm/s1600/drawers-apps-quicklists.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="AppMenu Drawer quicklists"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZUAGTgID2Pdmet1uhm77gPz6Y1ZDgjujm6gwyiGZi8EygaHtF_ty917MTFgShXWsV_WI49xK-BdQixPsihtiLUDA0wqEbED2_lx_MY7An6coiv0sNl1Ex7Xs1pIVZuAlMOXXO3W5LNQm/s320/drawers-apps-quicklists.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><br />Other changes in the latest Drawers 13.3.1 include:<br /><ul><li>icons can now be up to 128px;</li><li>drawer color updates with wallpaper changes.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Drawers comes with many useful features, allowing you to add any kind of file types, links and so on to a drawer and it also supports "<a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/unity-stacks-application-drawers.html">active drawers</a>" in which the content of a folder is added to a drawer and is constantly monitored for changes so when you add files to that folder, the drawer is updated automatically.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Drawers</h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxhqgidodx3QxlCBbt_O2csq7LRedDM4AgFeELXR3pdfIxEn98tlVV1lW2-C6yful5x9a7KsbcDzT3g2hp3bWldsS8JVvAgLn3V0skZDOHha9pyL-B91wUU-o9KuHkh7MVKz69hVf1Hru/s1600/drawers-apps_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="AppMenu Drawer category"><img alt="drawers stacks unity" border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxhqgidodx3QxlCBbt_O2csq7LRedDM4AgFeELXR3pdfIxEn98tlVV1lW2-C6yful5x9a7KsbcDzT3g2hp3bWldsS8JVvAgLn3V0skZDOHha9pyL-B91wUU-o9KuHkh7MVKz69hVf1Hru/s320/drawers-apps_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Drawers is currently available for Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04 and it can be installed from its official PPA, by using the following commands in a terminal:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ian-berke/ppa-drawers<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install drawers</code></pre><br />If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/drawers">Launchpad</a>.

Get A Classic Style Menu In Unity With The Latest Drawers

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