Comments on: New Dirs in Gutsy: Documents, Music, Pictures, Blah, Blah

By: Jaymes

Jaymes — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:41:13 +0000

Very handy informational guide. This is a little bit old, but it is this kind of information that isn't readily and clearly explained.

One day I hope that Ubuntu will ship with solid, clear, technical manuals that explain how things work. The man pages are great, but how are you to find a topic in there without knowing the topic before hand? :(

Thanks very much!

By: Hong Hai Nguyen

Hong Hai Nguyen — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:11:36 +0000

My solution is a damn small trick. I removed these directories using "rmdir" and created the symbolic links using "ln -s" to the Windows folders with the same names. That's work!

rmdir Documents
ln -s /media/sda1/My\ Documents Documents

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:38:45 +0000

Thanks, Juan. Looking at that caused me to look more closely at the "Bookmarks" menu in Nautilus, which I've previously glossed over. Funny how you can have blinders on with things you use frequently.

By: Juan Carlos

Juan Carlos — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:10:22 +0000

Hello, I found another way to add folder to Places. Open the folder that you want to show on Places and bookmark it...

By: axm

axm — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:45:53 +0000

hate it. clogs up home dir without me using it. for everyone just looking for the place to disable it, it is /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf

By: Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:25:39 +0000

Thanks, Rax. I should remember to always experiment with clicking and dragging in Nautilus. Lots of things work nice that way.

Hi, Embedded -- I agree. No problem having common defaults, and then of course we want to let people change them if they want.

By: Embedded

Embedded — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:11:04 +0000

It looks to me like a good idea that needs to propagate a little while....

It also looks to me that *ANYTHING* that makes backup and desktop administration work better than Vista is a *Good Idea* (not hard). Having a agreed upon set of folders that default out for third party vendors to hang their hat on is that. I really like how "/media" worked out.

By: Rax

Rax — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:49:01 +0000

I find the easiest way to add folders to my place menu is to:
1. Open nautilus
2. Navigate till I can see the folder I want to link to
3. Drag that folder onto the places pane of the nautilus window
4. All done .. voila you can now use that shortcut in the nautilus window and the places menu

Unfortunately that doesn't solve the openoffice issue.