On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 16:47, Michael Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 ;-]. > Can only speak for myself, as a normal-but-heavy user, both at work and at home: I would very much not like a distribution or application clutter my menu with templates, especially ones that I can't easily remove since they are system-wide and therefore both permissions and other users may be a problem. Other users are also a "problem" in what they may install if we all share templates. I very much like the templates-per-user approach where a Templates directory is used - but I think some extra glue would be very nice, perhaps a simple way to *copy* some system-wide templates to the local place, maybe using the top-ribbon to show that option clearly? Just my 0.02. -- Stoffe Kristoffer Lundén ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spineworld.com http://www.playdo.com ☎ +46 (0) 704 48 98 77 > > 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 >
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