What Custom Launchers and Unity Quicklists are available?

Please note that right now, most of the information contained below is outdated and cannot be updated. Be careful, most of this won't work on Ubuntu 12.04 and newer.

Creating a custom launcher for Unity is simple. Quicklists provide an easy and efficient way to quickly access commonly used tasks for a specific application.

NOTE: Starting with Ubuntu 11.10, this popup option has vanished. Launchers can now only be created by editing text files in your home folder.

Creating a custom launcher is easy.

1. Right-click on your desktop and click create a launcher.
2. Edit the .desktop file using a text editor. (More information can be found here and here.)

So, which custom launchers do you use on Unity?

Note: Please limit yourself to one custom launcher per answer. Also, please provide a screenshot of it in action.

Home Icon Quicklist

1. Copy 'Home Folder' launcher file to your home directory:

   mkdir ~/.local/share/applications
   cp /usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
   

2. Open the file for editing in gedit:

   gedit ~/.local/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop
   

3. Delete the following line from the file:

   OnlyShowIn=GNOME;
   

4. Add this text to the bottom of the file, then close and save:

   X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Videos;Documents;Music;Pictures;Downloads
   [Videos Shortcut Group]
   Name=Videos
   Exec=nautilus Videos
   TargetEnvironment=Unity
   
   [Documents Shortcut Group]
   Name=Documents
   Exec=nautilus Documents
   TargetEnvironment=Unity
   
   [Music Shortcut Group]
   Name=Music
   Exec=nautilus Music
   TargetEnvironment=Unity
   
   [Pictures Shortcut Group]
   Name=Pictures
   Exec=nautilus Pictures
   TargetEnvironment=Unity
   
   [Downloads Shortcut Group]
   Name=Downloads
   Exec=nautilus Downloads
   TargetEnvironment=Unity
   

5. Log out and log in again to see the changes.

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SSH Launcher

Access of list of your favorite SSH servers quickly.

1. Create a new file with gedit, in the Terminal type:

   gedit ~/.local/share/applications/ssh-launcher.desktop
   

2. Copy & Paste this text into the above file:

   [Desktop Entry]
   Version=1.0
   Name=Remote Servers
   Comment=Login to my servers
   Exec=gnome-terminal --disable-factory --sm-client-disable --class=remoteserver -x ssh -t minibox.local 
   Terminal=false
   X-MultipleArgs=false
   Type=Application
   Icon=utilities-terminal
   StartupNotify=true
   StartupWMClass=RemoteServers
   X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=Server1;
   
   [Server1 Shortcut Group]
   Name=SSH into minibox.local
   Exec=gnome-terminal --disable-factory --sm-client-disable  --class=remoteserver -x ssh -t minibox.local
   TargetEnvironment=Unity
   
   Comment=You can create more of these. Just add to X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts a "Server2", "Server3" etc, then change the domain name (in this case, "minibox.local") to the name of your server. You'll also notice that the default action (When you just click the icon in the launcher) is to SSH into minibox.local - you'll need to change that to your most used server.
   

3. Drag and Drop onto the launcher by navigating to ~/.local/share/applications/ in Nautilus.

Source 1, Source 2

Ubuntu Software Center Quicklist

Quickly add PPAs through the software-properties UI and update sources as well.

1. Copy the original .desktop file to your home folder using Terminal:

   cp /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-software-center.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

2. Open the file for editing with gedit:

   gedit ~/.local/share/applications/ubuntu-software-center.desktop

3. Add the following at the bottom of the file. This should be entered after the line X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=software-center

.

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=SoftwareUpdates;SoftwareProperties;Synaptic;

[SoftwareUpdates Shortcut Group]  
Name=Update Manager  
Exec=update-manager -c  
OnlyShowIn=Unity

[SoftwareProperties Shortcut Group]  
Name=Add/Edit PPAs  
Exec=gksu software-properties-gtk %u  
OnlyShowIn=Unity

[Synaptic Shortcut Group]  
Name=Synaptic Software Manager  
Exec=gksu synaptic %u  
OnlyShowIn=Unity