Nautilus doesn't show templates and scripts in the file menu

[Krzysztof Kosinski]

The right-click context menu allows one to create new documents - either an empty file, or one of the files in the Templates XDG folder. However, the templates are missing from the File menu - only an empty file is available from there. This makes it unnecessarily difficult to create a file from template in the list view.

The same issue is present with Nautilus scripts: they are present in the right-click menu, but the File menu only has the option to open the scripts directory. Therefore this might be an issue with indicator-appmenu rather than Nautilus.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.54-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jun 24 10:57:24 2014
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-visible-columns' b"['name', 'size', 'date_modified']"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-zoom-level' b"'smaller'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'mime_type', 'group', 'where', 'owner', 'permissions']"
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-26 (28 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[José Daniel Portomeñe López (portomene)]

I've noticed the same behaviour after installing 14.04 LTS, in both 32 and 64 bits versions.

It's quite difficult to create a file in some circumstances, because when you make a right click into a folder's content, when there are many files and/or folders and the screen is full, there isn't space to do a 'clean' right click into the folder; you are right clicking onto a file. In result, the solution until 14.04 LTS was selecting the New Document command in the File menu, but now it's impossible.

The same problem is present with the scripts.

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

I tried other desktip environemnts (xfce and gnome-fallback) but nautils uses the gear menu there, so I cannot tell if this has something to do with app-indicator, but scripts from the script menu are definitely missing.