Nautilus adds "Untitled" automatically to new file templates

[Edwin Pujols]

I don't think this is awkwardly important. When I create a new template on the ~/Templates folder I give it a "descriptive enough" and useful name (for example, "New recipe.txt"). The new template appears immediately on the context menu with the expected title "New recipe.txt", but when I click it to create the new document I get a file named "Untitled New recipe.txt". That is, Nautilus/Files always adds the text "Untitled " in front of the template name.

What I'd expect is a file simply named "New recipe.txt".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-5.20-generic 3.13.0
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-5-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.13.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jan 23 18:13:48 2014
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-14 (9 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140113)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, I can't confirm that here though. Nautilus adds a "New" in front but not "Untitled" (e.g if I create a "buggy.txt" in Templates I get a "New buggy.txt" created)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Peter (petru-severin)]

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 localized in Romanian. In this situation creating new document adds "fără nume" (means Untitled) at the end of the file name, after the extension. So if a have a template named "Text File.txt" then creating a new "Text File" document results in "Text File.txt fără nume" with "Text File" selected. This is really bad because I need to edit the name and then to delete end "fără nume" ending, and if I am not careful enough there might be a space character left after the extension which breaks programs like LibreOffice.

This should really be fixed.

[Peter (petru-severin)]

Here's a screenshot of what the problem looks like.

[Harald H. (haarektrans)]

Experienced it here today. The issue have now been reported upstream:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774680

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's fixed in newer versions