Having a ~/Documents folder makes Gnome use it as your default instead of just ~
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Fix Released
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
This is an odd one. When I was using Windows, I had a folder called "Documents"; I moved it over to Ubuntu last year and it became ~/Documents, and I noticed that almost all of Gnome's apps were using ~/Documents as the default (what they showed when you first opened a File->Open or File-Save As dialogue).
I finally got tired of this, and created a new directory ~/Docs, moved all the stuff from ~/Documents over to it, and deleted ~/Documents. Now everything starts in ~, where it should.
To test, I just created an empty ~/Documents again, and gedit repeats the old bug - it's opening in the new ~/Documents again, not in ~.
It's not just gedit, though, it's most of Gnome's docs, except for a few that remember where you last opened them better.
Sorry about leaving the package name blank, I've got no idea which package this should apply to. I thought there was a package called "gnome-open" that handled the file stuff, but it doesn't seem to be listed...
I can confirm that this happens on GNOME 2.14.1.
This sounds more like a feature, than a bug to me.