Folders bookmarks not showing in places

[Pedro Gauna]

Ubuntu 12.10, using Gnome Classic with compiz.
I have some bookmarks added in nautilus, but not showing in places menu.
I used this in Ubuntu 12.04 with not problem.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Anthony Barclay (anthony-barclay)]

Problem seems to be that in gnome-panel/libpanel-util/panel-gtk.c the function panel_gtk_get_bookmark_file will return the path to the bookmarks file as ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks whereas nautilus appears to be updating the file ~/.gtk-bookmarks. Problem is obviously something about the condition being used to determine which path to return but I'm afraid I don't know how to fix it correctly so instead a workaround until someone wiser does is to do the following:

rm ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks
ln -sf ~/.gtk-bookmarks ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks

[Matthew Fearnley (matthew-w-fearnley)]

Thanks for the workaround!
I didn't have a ~/.config/gtk-3.0 folder for some reason, but with an mkdir things worked fine:

mkdir ~/.config/gtk-3.0
ln -sf ~/.gtk-bookmarks ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Ok, the problem is that GTK, gnome-panel, and nautilus 3.6 switched the default bookmarks location to use the XDG config directory instead of spamming the root of the home directory with "dot directories". Unfortunately for us, when it came time to freeze for Ubuntu 12.10, we decided to stick with Nautilus 3.4 as Nautilus 3.6 was a significant rewrite with known problems at that time.

- One fix is to upgrade to Nautilus 3.6 (this has already been done for Ubuntu 13.04). You can also use the GNOME3 PPA for Ubuntu 12.10.
- Or we could backport http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=ed90577 to Ubuntu 12.10
- Or we could revert both the gnome-panel and GTK changes in gnome-panel for Ubuntu 12.10