Adding items to "Places" in Ubuntu (8.10)

[TrainTrackHack]

I have this dedicated "Downloads" folder in my Home folder where all my downloads are automatically saved (Firefox & all download managers). Now, I want to/need to access the stuff over here pretty often, so I come up with this bright idea that "hey, I'll add the folder to my Places menu"... so I right-click the taskbar and hit "Edit Menus" but no... "Places" ain't there... only Applications & System. Is there a way to add items to the "Places" menu?

 

[Carlton]

It's very easy to do this.

Open the folder you want to have in "Places" then from the menu bar "add bookmark". Done.

 

[TrainTrackHack]

Hah thanks, really quite simple... oh and another question now that we're at it: If you add enough items in the bokmarks, the bookmarks in "Places" will be displayed in a separate sub-menu... is there a way to keep this from happening (not that I needed it now, I just noticed it when I first added the home folder itself by accident in addition my downloads folder).

 

[jimijazz]

Avoiding "Places" being put into a submenu

Hah thanks, really quite simple... oh and another question now that we're at it: If you add enough items in the bokmarks, the bookmarks in "Places" will be displayed in a separate sub-menu... is there a way to keep this from happening (not that I needed it now, I just noticed it when I first added the home folder itself by accident in addition my downloads folder).

This is exactly what I'm looking for. I had thought that it was the upgrade to 10.10 that did away with most of my "Places" and put them into "Bookmarks" but now I see it was simply that I had so many "Places" that they were put into a sub-menu. I removed a few and now they're back where I'm used to. How can I continue to add places to this menu without having them go into a separate "Bookmarks" menu within "Places?"