MJ Ray wrote about a couple of things which puzzled him a while back…
Here are a couple of things that puzzle me.
1. Templates
Why is the ~/Templates/ directory empty on a default Ubuntu install? If there is a sensible reason, by all means comment and tell me. But if you right-click on the Desktop or somewhere in Nautilus you’re able to create a folder, or a document but since the Templates directory is empty, you can only create an empty file. What use is that?
sionide@zombie:~$ ls /home/sionide/Templates/ OpenOffice Calc.ods OpenOffice Math.odf Text Document.txt OpenOffice Draw.odg OpenOffice Writer.odt OpenOffice Impress.odp Shell Script.sh
As you can see, my Templates directory is full of files, they’re just filenames really - it’s the extension which counts and means that the “Create document” menu is filled with those file types as options of files I can create.. Seems silly to ship with a feature kind of half missing.
2. Bluetooth
I’ve already discussed this, so Bluetooth is supported out of the box but not properly. A pretty normal use case isn’t catered for meaning that from what I can tell, you have to install a few other things before it’ll let you send or receive files from another bluetooth device. It’s another half-a-feature..
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Perhaps these are ideas I should submit to the Ubuntu Brainstorm 
I definitely agree about the first point.
In fact it’s one of those things where the Linux desktop seems to inexplicably go “backwards” for a while - I’m pretty sure in early versions of Gnome/earlier distros the right click menu functioned better. It’s like how for a while, whenever you double-clicked a folder in Nautilus it forced you to open it in a new window, at least that is fixed.
Still you’ve probably motivated me to fix up my templates dir properly if it’s as easy as you make it look
@xMachina: “touch TextDocument.txt” should be as easy as that. The only thing which annoys me about it (Ha, I’m never pleased) is that it’s Templates, not templates.. I prefer having all my home directories to be lower case but *shrug* Maybe it should be hidden, ~/.Templates would be good, oh well.