nautilus lacking 'new document' in context menu on GNOME

[David González]

As the title mentions nautilus is provided in its default state and there is no 'New Document' in the context menu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-10.10-generic 3.19.2
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 27 17:49:01 2015
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-27 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Beta amd64 (20150326)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Tim (darkxst)]

The exisitng patch for this is set to only show under Unity, probably can drop that check, since this would be useful under GNOME also.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Shouldn't Ubuntu GNOME report a bug upstream if they think it makes sense on all environment including GNOME?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

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

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1437502

[Anders Hall (a.hall)]

For anyone ending up here, i lost this feature in 17.04 and need it: quick fix found at https://askubuntu.com/questions/777711/create-new-document-right-click-option-missing-in-ubuntu-gnome/791946

"
    1. See if you have ~/Templates folder. Create one if it is missing using command:

        mkdir ~/Templates

    2. Now create an empty file from command prompt:

        touch ~/Templates/Text\ File.txt1

"Create Document" option is back again and you can create a new text file or a new document.

1the backslash is used to tell the shell that the space following it is part of the filename. Since the shell recognizes spaces are delimiters between commands/options/arguments, unless you "quote it" 'quote it' or quote\ it, the shell will treat whatever comes after the space as a separate argument.
"

[Jeremy Soller (jackpot51)]

I believe this applies again to Ubuntu 17.10.

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Bug exists in Ubuntu 17.10 final.

[JLuc (jluc-q)]

I confirm : Bug exists in released Ubuntu 17.10

[Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)]

I'm marking this a duplicate of bug 1632027, the bug for Ubuntu 16.10+. It is highly unlikely that we would make a UI change this late for 16.04 LTS without fixing the current development release first anyway.