Hi David, On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 20:10 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > JFYI, I seem to remember Alex being unhappy about such an approach
:-) > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.nautilus/3745 > > and I tend to agree. What problem are you trying to solve Michael? The problem I'm trying to solve is that I wanted a desktop to be easy to use for my Father, and this involved having a nice right-click context menu with "Create OpenOffice document" in it on the desktop & in the file manager. My existing "Create Document" menu has only the (rather useless and misleading) "Empty File" entry - I love to create empty files, but I'd like an empty file of a given type ;-) [ rather than a text file targeting gedit ;-]. Much to my amazement, KDE has such a feature - and their templates directory appears to be proof that such a thing can exist without the world & wife dumping all sorts of junk in it (one of Alex's arguments). Clearly vendors need to take care that they don't themselves allow junk to pile up there: which empirically seems quite possible if not easy. Interestingly, our OO.o package already creates a nice set of templates in /opt/kde3/share/templates - which are .desktop files setup such that KDE can use them in this menu [ perhaps slightly useful for ISVs ]. Of course, wrt. lock-down and merging and so-on I can believe it's a disaster, and there can be conflicts in the menu (as there can be with other files). At a minimum - if you turn off the 'system' files: the patch adds the ability to add .desktop files in each users directory that point to a template - and allow translation of that template's name: currently not possible. Either way - I'm fairly confident that if we have the templates menu in every right click context having some content in it might not be a bad thing ;-) Are you implacably opposed ? HTH, Michael. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list