Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
I realize that a symptom of this problem has been reported, but it has
also been worked around, and the existing bug reports do not highlight
the actual problem.
[Sorry in advance, this bug report is more a solution suggestion.]
In Gutsy (7.10), the Bookmarks submenu in the Places menu has been removed, and
the bookmarks have been relocated to list right below the more "official"
Places.
In Feisty (7.04), users would put many locations as bookmarks in Nautilus for
easy access. Locations accessible through the Places menu are not always
accessible via Nautilus, so it was necessary to create bookmarks. Users'
bookmarks were duplicates of items in the Places menu then, too, but it was not
as much of a problem since they were in a sub-menu; Places->Bookmarks.
A Feisty user upgrading to Gutsy will find duplicates of many of their Places
menu items, and will be very confused. These "duplicates" are Nautilus
bookmarks being listed below locations determined by the Places menu itself,
with the same names and icons. (Thus, it looks ugly!).
For the sake of the community support, this needs a fix, or it will surpass the
"synaptic wants to remove ubuntu-desktop!" problem reports in shear quantity --
something which I, for one, considered impossible.
In my opinion, the ideal fix is for the Places menu to stop having its
own built in locations (Documents, Home Folder and Desktop). The
locations in that menu should be entirely grabbed from Nautilus'
bookmarks to avoid duplicate entries. To better accommodate the change,
Nautilus' bookmarks list should contain, by default, all of the entries
previously in the Places menu. The lists of Places should be identical
in Nautilus, the file chooser widget, and the Places menu.
In this way, users will not need to create Nautilus bookmarks to
locations that are already listed in other menus, and the problem of
Places menu items grabbed from bookmarks being identical to built in
items will be circumvented by eliminating the built in items in that
menu, thus ensuring that there would be nothing to be a duplicate of.
** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Repeated items in Places menu (Feisty->Gutsy transition). Need consistent
Places lists.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/133565
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