Ubuntu
nautilus package

no "create new document" on menu

Bug #1019802 reported by Carla Sella on 2012-07-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1014876: No option to create a New Document from context menu. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	New	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

While carrying out testcase: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Hardware/CardReaders/Internal on Quantal Alpha 2 I tried to create a new empty document in my mini SD card, but I realized that the voice "create new document" while right clicking in nautilus on the window of my mini SD card is missing.
I tried to create an empty document also on my desktop but the menu voice is missing also there.
I'm attaching a screen shot it's an italian installation but you can see it's missing all the same.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: linux-image-3.5.0-2-generic 3.5.0-2.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-2.2-generic 3.5.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-2-generic x86_64
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.25.
ApportVersion: 2.2.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC270 Analog [ALC270 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: letozaf 1775 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA:
country VN:
  (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
  (5170 - 5250 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
  (5250 - 5330 @ 40), (N/A, 20), DFS
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd4400000 irq 44'
   Mixer name : 'Intel IbexPeak HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0270,103c1425,00100100 HDA:80862804,80860101,00100000'
   Controls : 26
   Simple ctrls : 12
Date: Sun Jul 1 16:44:10 2012
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=bd9ecec1-a6ab-4a10-b29b-096f53cfc0dc
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120627)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP G62 Notebook PC
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-2-generic root=UUID=dcc9e3c1-018e-4923-b610-9f04a28dd820 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-3.5.0-2-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-3.5.0-2-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.82
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/25/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.06
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 1425
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 54.12
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.06:bd01/25/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPG62NotebookPC:pvr049D100000202710000020000:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1425:rvr54.12:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP G62 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 049D100000202710000020000
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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Carla Sella (carla-sella) wrote on 2012-07-01:

screen shot Edit (180.6 KiB, image/png)
AcpiTables.txt Edit (365.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AlsaDevices.txt Edit (490 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
AplayDevices.txt Edit (257 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (53.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Amixer.values.txt Edit (2.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.0.txt Edit (9.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Card0.Codecs.codec.3.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (508 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (11.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (472 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciMultimedia.txt Edit (619 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PulseList.txt Edit (16.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (118 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (143.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (310.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (726.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote on 2012-07-01:

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu laptop testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://laptop.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1019802

tags:

added: laptop-testing

Brad Figg (brad-figg) on 2012-07-01

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury) on 2012-07-02

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
affects:	linux (Ubuntu) → nautilus (Ubuntu)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance:	Medium → Undecided
status:	Confirmed → New

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Doug McMahon (mc3man) wrote on 2012-07-08:

You may wish to have a look here where seb128 has set to "won't fix" (I won't dupe because once released you'll see many bugs such as this if this change remains

bug 1014876

For info sake - Atm you need to create a template in ~/Templates. Then the "Empty Document" option will appear though if you use a text/plain template you'll get 2 options for text/plain

Best option for users is create an Open Office (odt) template so there is only 1 choice for the more commonly used "Empty Document" (Untitled Document - text/plain

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2012-07-19

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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LantzR (lantzr) wrote on 2013-02-14:

The qa test Tc-Nfm-001 need ... adjusting
- deliberately creating the document with the same name as the default is not a common case

- touch move or anything from bash will not affect the context menu until restart

- dragging one document with nautilus to the Templates folder will create the New Documents context menu
- with the doc you put in as well as the default "Empty Document"

- It is ok to have many text Templates
- Having to guess which menu item gives you Foo and which gives you Foo.txt is a different issue

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1119832/comments/7