Thank you for your bug report. What content is there in that directory? It's supposed to include only templates for new documents and a small/selected list. There are known issues if the template includes lot of data to be read/parsed
** Changed in: xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdg-user-dirs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836462 Title: Renaming Templates to # Templates fixes speed issues present in wide range of desktop applications Status in xdg-user-dirs package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in xdg-user-dirs package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Renaming "Templates" to "# Templates" fixes a lot of speed issues in a range of desktop applications, e.g. file managers, text editors, etc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs/+bug/1836462/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp