Repeated items in Places menu (Feisty->Gutsy transition). Need consistent Places lists.

[Dylan McCall]

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I realize that a symptom of this problem has been reported, but it has also been worked around, and the existing bug reports do not highlight the actual problem.

[Sorry in advance, this bug report is more a solution suggestion.]

In Gutsy (7.10), the Bookmarks submenu in the Places menu has been removed, and the bookmarks have been relocated to list right below the more "official" Places.
In Feisty (7.04), users would put many locations as bookmarks in Nautilus for easy access. Locations accessible through the Places menu are not always accessible via Nautilus, so it was necessary to create bookmarks. Users' bookmarks were duplicates of items in the Places menu then, too, but it was not as much of a problem since they were in a sub-menu; Places->Bookmarks.

A Feisty user upgrading to Gutsy will find duplicates of many of their Places menu items, and will be very confused. These "duplicates" are Nautilus bookmarks being listed below locations determined by the Places menu itself, with the same names and icons. (Thus, it looks ugly!).
For the sake of the community support, this needs a fix, or it will surpass the "synaptic wants to remove ubuntu-desktop!" problem reports in shear quantity -- something which I, for one, considered impossible.

In my opinion, the ideal fix is for the Places menu to stop having its own built in locations (Documents, Home Folder and Desktop). The locations in that menu should be entirely grabbed from Nautilus' bookmarks to avoid duplicate entries. To better accommodate the change, Nautilus' bookmarks list should contain, by default, all of the entries previously in the Places menu. The lists of Places should be identical in Nautilus, the file chooser widget, and the Places menu.

In this way, users will not need to create Nautilus bookmarks to locations that are already listed in other menus, and the problem of Places menu items grabbed from bookmarks being identical to built in items will be circumvented by eliminating the built in items in that menu, thus ensuring that there would be nothing to be a duplicate of.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.