Ubuntu
xdg-user-dirs package

  1. Bug #204567
  2. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 204567

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Conn O Griofa (psyke83) wrote : Re: downloads should go to $HOME/Downloads : XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR should be set to "$HOME/Downloads"

mac_v,

With regard to the Places item limitation, I agree. While I'm not so sure that adding a gconf entry is necessary, the Ubuntu gnome-panel package could patch the hardcoded value as mentioned in the upstream report. The limit of 5 bookmarks is bizarre; less than half of the menu height can be utilized, and yet, after installing a few extra applications, the System -> Preferences menu will overflow at a standard 1024x768 resolution.

We could raise the limit from 5 to 8 or perhaps a little more, and the menu will never overflow - unless you have a lot of partitions/devices present on your system (and why can't the list of devices turn into a submenu in the same way as bookmarks do?).

We don't need to fight with upstream - let's add the gnome-panel package to the also-affected list for this bug and see if the maintainer would be willing to make this very small change.