This bug affects me as well! No resume templates, no letter heading, nothing.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 08:02, Joel Pickett <jlkpc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Echoing comment #63, it's annoying installing Ubuntu, a full-featured > desktop OS, to find that there's no document templates available. I'd > much rather not have it at all than to have something that you have to > actually create the templates yourself. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to One > Hundred Paper Cuts. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372132 > > Title: > "Create Document" Templates difficult to use > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/372132/+subscriptions > -- Jacky Alcine Blog <http://jackyalcine.co.cc/> | Launchpad<https://launchpad.net/~jackyalcine> -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372132 Title: "Create Document" Templates difficult to use Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Confirmed Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The "Create Document" right-click option has only "Empty file" as an option and a rather puzzling "No templates installed" second option. I expected to find templates for the most common Openoffice file types. This is confusing for non-expert users and can lead to problems. Particularly to those used to the windows behaviour. I suggest creating a group of templates (openoffice word processor, spreadsheet, presentation) as the default set to ease the newcomers difficulties. As a matter of fact, a friend I introduced to Linux just realized all the documents she created using that method didn't have any format. She used a simple (although wrong) method to create Openoffice files. #1 Right Click inside folder - Create document - Empty File (Just as any windows user could do) #2 Rename document to whatever she wanted - Ex: Doc1.odt (this is a somehow advanced behaviour but still common for windows users). #3 Open file and ignore ASCII Filter Option message (whatever - OK) #4 Write in the document. #5 Save - Ignore warning about formating and Click on "Keep Current Format" instead of "Save in ODF format" (this could be seen as a huge mistake, and it is, but also a common behaviour if you are used to open DOC files with Openoffice. You end up ignoring those warnings). What I am proposing is to put template files for the most common document formats (at least openoffice ones) into the Templates folder by default. This way, the windows newcomers would find a Create Openoffice Word file option and avoid very damaging mistakes as the one explained before. Also, this would fill an usability gap between linux and windows. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/372132/+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
