Home folder should appear in UNR Files and Folders section

[Paul Larson]

Binary package hint: netbook-launcher

The user's home directory and Desktop directory would be very useful for inclusion in the list of default directories on the Files & Folders tab.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 11 12:04:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: netbook-launcher 2.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: netbook-launcher
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686

[Paul Larson (pwlars)]

Seems to be partially complete, desktop folder is now visible, but the full home directory is not.

[Omegamormegil (omegamormegil)]

I just installed Karmic UNR (which is __spectacular__ btw) and I find myself constantly wanting to go to my Home folder. To do so, I need to open the Documents folder, and then go up a level. I just added my Home folder as a Nautilus shortcut, which makes it appear in the UNR interface, but now it shows in two places in the Nautilus sidebar which is ugly.

I hope this gets fixed.

(The Desktop is there now, so I'm going to correct the title)

[Stefano (s-schivo)]

I resolved it by adding a line like
file:///home/myname
in the file named ".gtk-bookmarks" located in my home directory.
Hope to have been useful =)

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

I fixed it directly in the code. That means if you don't have it as a place in nautilus, it will still appear in the folder view.

The version providing that will be available in lucid for beta 1 in one week.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package netbook-launcher - 1:2.1.15-0ubuntu1

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netbook-launcher (1:2.1.15-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Can't launch anything outside "Favourties" or "Files & Folders"
      using touchscreen (ilovemistakes) (LP: #434502)
    - Enhance support for right-to-left languages (Haggai Eran)
      (LP: #470454)
    - netbook launcher crashes when pressed arrow keys in 'files and folders'
      menu (LP: #512136)
    - Home folder should appear in UNR Files and Folders section
      (LP: #412030)
    - Examples from example-content don't show up on Files & Folders
      (LP: #423601)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:53:09 +0100

[Jim Klein (jklein)]

I think this is generally a bad idea. Users should be able to customize their folder list. The nautilus sidebar method worked just fine. Now that these are hardcoded, a user can no longer choose not to have these folders. Excellent example is regression created by the "fix" for bug 423601, in which the examples folder shows up, regardless of whether the underlying folder exists or not.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

It was already the same with the desktop folder, so, putting the home folder everytime there make sense.
The Example folder is only shown if you get the examples.desktop file present. So, there is no regression there.