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xdg-user-dirs package

  1. Bug #285998
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 285998

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Michael Nagel (nailor) wrote : Re: Deleting ~/Templates and rebooting makes a change in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

i see this clearly as a bug, see newly added duplicates.

important comments from there:

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i have deleted my templates folder and nautilus does not handle this very well.
clicking on "Go->Templates" brings me to my home folder.

(that is at least consistent with
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
line from .config/user-dirs.dirs)

however this setup is not very useful because i most certainly do not want to have my templates in my home folder (or put it the other way round: all my files as a template). and secondly, it does not work, i.e. even the files that are in my home folder are not available as templates...

i suggest that a non-existent template dir should not be changed to $HOME and i should be offered some assistance when clicking on "Go->Templates" in this case.
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for future reference: i wrote up how to fix an accidentally deleted folder:
http://nailor.devzero.de/blog/archives/26-fix-broken-gnomenautilus-template-folder.html
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