<div>On 30/10/2008, Matthew East <<a href="mailto:mdke@ubuntu.com">mdke@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:38 PM, A. Walton <<a href="mailto:awalton@gnome.org">awalton@gnome.org</a>> wrote: > I personally have no problem seeing Ubuntu ship a few default > templates in /etc/skel/. From my GNOME point of view, I think it'd be > a healthy thing to do, and I think distros have the good sense to > manage what they put in there, even though it's not "recommended". This is the problem right here. I think it's pretty uncontestable, for the reasons that Michael Meeks states on the Gnome mailing list thread, that having some templates in ~/Templates by default would improve enormously the user experience. So, it's a valid bug. But, it's been closed by the Ubuntu developer because we have one Gnome developer, not even the nautilus maintainers, with a loud voice on a thread on the Gnome mailing list saying it's a bad idea because he doesn't trust distributors to do a good job to maintain a healthy list of templates. It seems plain to me having read the thread that the correct approach here is for distros to take responsibility for this and ship some templates in ~/Templates by default (whether using /etc/skel or other technical means). It's only distros who have control over whether that list of templates will get "cluttered" or not, so it's distros who can keep it clean. I think closing the bug was the wrong decision and I really hope that it can be reconsidered as a potential feature for Ubuntu 9.04. -- Matthew East <a href="http://www.mdke.org">http://www.mdke.org</a> gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop</a> </blockquote></div> +1